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    The group Razor1911 has now made it possible to play Shadowrun in XP

    This space is empty... or is it?

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    ... but why would you want to?
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    • #3
      Especially when you can run anything Windows on a Mac (or so the Mac fiends tell me).
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      • #4
        Originally posted by mactbone
        ... but why would you want to?
        That's besides the point

        I'm running Vista myself, so it wont affect me, but I've heard a lot of people wants to run Vista games on XP
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        • #5
          Originally posted by bipolarbear
          Especially when you can run anything Windows on a Mac (or so the Mac fiends tell me).
          But why would you want to use a Mac?
          This space is empty... or is it?

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          • #6
            If a Vista-only game runs on XP, is it a Vista-only game?
            THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
            AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
            AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
            DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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            • #7
              Thats great News.
              Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

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              • #8
                This won't work when they drop DX9 render paths...

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                • #9
                  I have an Xbox 360 so not particularly excited about this. Even if I didn't, the game doesn't look that good anyway.

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                  • #10
                    This is good news for those who just don't have Vista. Me? I don't knof of a single 'Vista Only' game I'm looking to play at the moment.

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                    • #11
                      It's non-news. Shadowrun isn't a real Vista-only game, as it's a DirectX 9 game. All you need to do is crack the EXE not to do an OS check. I don't see why this is a huge deal.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Asher
                        It's non-news. Shadowrun isn't a real Vista-only game, as it's a DirectX 9 game. All you need to do is crack the EXE not to do an OS check. I don't see why this is a huge deal.
                        Well... I don't know Shadowrun, I just assumed that since it's called a vista only game it was a DX10 game... what would the point be in making a DX9 game and make it Vista only
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                        • #13
                          Marketing.

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                          • #14
                            Deliberately preventing the majority of gamers from running your game seems to be a massively dumb move.

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                            • #15
                              Not really - they know that anyone that wants to play it on XP will be able to in practice, and at the same time they start to create the impression that the future is Vista only.

                              Despite what Asher will say in response to this, it's just classic MS.

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