Will Shattered Horizon work on Windows XP?

surely the percentage of XP users to Vista/Windows 7 operating systems is higher at the moment in time, although windows Vista and Windows 7 are now to the market and say more popular, XP is still widely used... my only concern is, will you not be losing out on your market profits by not producing say even a patch that will allow XP users to play this game too?

Personally, and im sure other may feel the same way, we would love to see this came compatible with XP operating systems as well.

DX10 and 11 have to be pushed some time, we can't stay with DX9 forever!

What a shame! I love FPS games & was just about to purchase SH from Steam - after watching the trailer. It looks very cool.

I will _never_ use *cough* vista & won't be 'upgrading' to 7 until MS discontinue support for XP (prolly late 2010 iirc). The vast majority of friends & online/ingame buddies feel the same.

Another sale(s) lost...

Windows 7 is great, i've been using it for a while (only the RC, have to get around to buying it).

But after using 7, I would never want to go back to XP.

Gwanatu, I'm not so petty as to disregard an Operating System 'out of spite'...

I work in the IT industry & can tell you that nobody I know would jump onto a new OS until it has had a chance to 'mature', (e.g. c.6 months - or at least until a service pack has been released).

As for Vista, well... I'm not going to spend _any_ of my valuable time arguing with those deluded enough to think that it was in any shape or form a 'good' OS. It blew - EOS.

I am actually looking forward to using Windows 7 in anger. But the truth of the matter is, really: If your current setup functions within acceptable parameters (or even better; maxed right out) then there is _no need_ to upgrade.

I keep telling my less-pc-literate friends - who go out & buy a £200 GPU, then discover that it has given them no visible improvement whatsoever - that their 'old card' was more than capable of running _everything they could throw at it_ - that they're throwing their money away on a whim.

The most pertinate question here really is: Am I going to spend £100+ just so I can play one-out-of-a-hundred FPS games, when my current OS supports _every other game I want to play_?

And the answer is....?

well personally i still LOVE xp so i stick with it its simple doesnt put any extra load on my ram or proccesor... sure i cant use all 8 gb of my ram but i have a quad n really dont need anymore power than im already using and as zarathustra saidl..... theres HUNDREDS of FPS games out there that are able to be played on xp..... so i dont feel the need to change my full OS just to play this 1.... i mean i like the look of it all but they messed up on vista and they're trying 2 fix it with 7..... fail -.-

DirectX10 / Windows 7 has definitely matured to the point where this should not be a concern for modern computers that have the power to run this game.

Prior to Windows 7 I would be in full agreement about XP being superior to Vista, but as FM_Jarnis mentioned, Windows 7 really is a major improvement on Vista and every complaint I had about it is addressed.

Any computer capable of running this game should also be capable of running WIndows 7 with ease. (And would likely have come with Windows Vista anyway, which also supports dx 10)

Didn't some 3rd party of random coders do something like this for halo 3? Ive heard ways to patch halo 2 to work on xp and that's supposed to be vista only right?

Surely a big software company can handle something like this right?

Man, i love this game, but vista or windows 7 doesn't like my graphics card, and my system is perfectly capable of doing whatever is necessary to run this. One day i will play this awesome game...

I totaly agree with people disliking vista. I tested it while using xp on another computer, and there is no doubt that vista was just a shot in the toilet. but we all know that vista wasnt supposed to be the finished product and that it was more a win 7 beta. Which totaly demonstrates how mircrosoft works, and we already ALL know that (microsoft blows)
But one gotto admit that win 7 stands his ground against xp. Im a huge xp fan and would have never completely changed to vista.
But its different for win 7. I changed for the sole purpose of playing this awesome game and i dont regret it.

Win 7 is just as great as xp. Well u cant really say great, as it is a microsoft(moneymaking machine) product. But for microsoft standard, those 2 are great OS and on par with each other.

I like it, and can recommend it. If ure not sure about win 7 but u want to play SH, then just upgrade it. Its probably one of the few version that runs great at realease (SP0)
And the win 7 installing is just great. Best one ever and i was so amazed. Really didnt expect that. I ran the dvd, started the quick format, and from there i didnt have to do anything and went to bed. Next morning i wake up and voila.....no didnt work, my mainboard acted weird and bios didnt start ;) but thats not related to win7..seriously, after fixing this " non win7 related problem" it started and win 7 was there, with all the drivers for every single component. Just had to update a few too make sure i got the newest ones. But everything worked and got installed correctly and for a computer newbie it would have been perfeclty fine to run like that.

I think it _was_ Halo that I remember downloading a DX9 patch for, but I'm not 100%

Lemme look back in my faves - hopefully I stored some info about it. Other than that, it's Google - but I will get back to you guys. =]

Guys, just forget it, its technicaly not possible to get this game running on XP