What, so xp users can't go in F1 2012, this because it uses DX11.
Ashame, ashame.................................
Can't this be solved?
Ashame, ashame.................................
Can't this be solved?
WTF? I'm with a DX 9 Video Card, I won't be able to play it??
I can confirm F1 2012 WILL NOT work with Windows XP, this was also the case for our most recent PC title DiRT Showdown. Both of these titles are using the DirectX 11 platform for F1 2012 which is available for Vista and Windows 7. Windows XP does not support the DirectX 11 platform.
For those of you with DirectX 10 cards, I can also confirm that for F1 2012 DirectX 10 and above cards will work, assuming they are above minimum spec.
The full PC specs for F1 2012 have still yet to be released.
Official statement regarding the situation.
They're not mentioning DX9 but that doesn't sound like it's going to be supported. Hopefully just a bad choice of words.
For those of you with DirectX 10 cards, I can also confirm that for F1 2012 DirectX 10 and above cards will work, assuming they are above minimum spec.
XP is a dead platform now. Time to move on. Other developers have or will be making the same moves. It's no longer supported by Microsoft so is unlikely to continue to be a target platform for anything other than small indies.
Microsoft going to pull XP Support plug soon may be after March 2013 so May be they decided to make F1 2012 Work on Windows 7
If they only make the Game work on DX 11 it would rather Cost them much because Lot of people may have DX10 or 9 cards and if the game works on DX11 cards most people won't want to Buy the Game by upgrading their Respective Graphic card.
Why would you like to upgrade Win7 to 8?
Why would you like to upgrade Win7 to 8?
Haha I agree, I'll defo pass on Win8. Tested the preview for a couple of days on one of my computers but it got uninstalled again pretty quick.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't upgrade immediately either. Then again, if you're getting a valid license for free you can still wait for service packs & updates.
True, but as I don't like what they have done with Win8....I think I'll be skipping it altogether.
I've been using XP until 2 months ago. Win7 is all new to me at home. Had it at work for 1.5 years or so, tho.
Yeah, I completely ignored Vista and ran XP until the first beta of Win7 was released.
Have been running it ever since, on all my computers.
Vista was pure crap and that scared me a bit when I bought a new laptop with Win7 pre-installed. Luckily it was a lot better but said laptop is running slower than ever after a year.
I'm curious if I could use my Win7 Pro DVD to install Win7 using the Home key provided with my laptop. Would that work? So that it doesn't activate the Pro features but only the Home ones, depending on the key.
It should work, but it also depends somewhat on the disc, if it's a OEM disc or a "standard" one. In my experience it's usually no problem but I can't remember if I tried "downgrading" an install from Pro to Home...The key is the main control over this but no guarantees.
XP is more than 10 years old, so the fact that the game doesn't run on it, it's not so much of a surprise...time to move on, because windows 8 is behind the corner!