WHat will happen if i try to download directx off the microsoft website and microsoft discovers my XP is cracked?

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I want to run google earth, on the grounds it sounds cool - are there other, non-microsoft directx sources?

― Nicht, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

I know these people are, in the end, more powerful than I.

― Nicht, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

you will be killed

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Grief implies death, yes, but I fear you are exaggerating.

― Nicht, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there an OpenGL implementation? (Or does that require directx anyway?)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

There is such a thing. I do not understand what it is, nor do i understand what direct x is, save for that i've found it useful in the past.

― Nicht, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

killed I say, killed.

killed like so many farm animals.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

OpenGL is a different API to DirectX, i.e. it's a different interface as well as implementation. The application you want to run would have to have been written to OpenGL to work.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I think GoogleEarth runs in DirectX and in OpenGL, and will default to opengl on older video cards that cant support it in dirX. Thats what happened on my install (on a laptop with shared RAM vid memory).

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Does the Directx download require Genuine Advantage validation?

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

is directx better than opengl these days? four or five years ago it wasn't, but I wonder if things have changed (note: I never ever play video games now)

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

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