DX10 on Windows 10?

[SSgt Avenger.at]

Hey there! Has anyone an idea how get this game working on DX10 on Windows 10? I've read in several forums that in order do get DX10 working you have to uninstall the update KB2670838 on Windows 7, but on 10 this update won't show up.

[SSgt Avenger.at]

Okay something I could have test before: Launching stalker CoP in DX 10 and this works fine, so I don't think anymore that DX10 is faulty.. it's simply Clear Sky..

So another question: Does any Mod out there fix the DX10 mode?

[Yomictland]

It is touchy at best, I couldn't get it to run the first handful of times I tried after setting it to DX10 and when I tried to do it in option screen it would also always crash X-ray engine, eventually it started working fine with DX10

[SSgt Avenger.at]

mhm.. would be great to know why it suddenly worked.

[Yomictland]

Yeah it would, having to guess is annoying haha. That's Stalker for you... sometimes it just does and sometimes it just does not.

[Bad_Conduct]

DX10 is basically abandonware. Not sure why you would use it.

[Yomictland]

Originally posted by Bad_Conduct:

DX10 is basically abandonware. Not sure why you would use it.

Now days I only run stalker in DX10. Won't ever go back to DX11.

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by Nessus:

Originally posted by Bad_Conduct:

DX10 is basically abandonware. Not sure why you would use it.

Now days I only run stalker in DX10. Won't ever go back to DX11.

lol why?
DX11 provides better performance. DX10 isn't supported, it was a development flop and they abandoned it with Windows 7.

[Sunset Sparkle]

I can run game of Dx10 in Win10.BUT the frame is under 30....
My PC:i7 4770K+16G+GTX970 SLI
I can't understand that.

[hitbm47]

I know this is a bit of a necro, but the DX10 mode is to enable the Extreme Graphics for the game. It has some extra graphical features over DirectX9, but in general DirectX10 shares multithreaded similarities with DirectX11, without providing much extra graphical features over DirectX9.
My DirectX10 mode works relatively well on my RX 480, I will do some further testing.

[SSgt Avenger.at]

Originally posted by hitbm47:

I know this is a bit of a necro, but the DX10 mode is to enable the Extreme Graphics for the game. It has some extra graphical features over DirectX9, but in general DirectX10 shares multithreaded similarities with DirectX11, without providing much extra graphical features over DirectX9.
My DirectX10 mode works relatively well on my RX 480, I will do some further testing.

holy... i totally forgot i put up this thread...

well, would still be interesting, so thanks!

[hitbm47]

Originally posted by Sgt. Avenger.at:

Originally posted by hitbm47:

I know this is a bit of a necro, but the DX10 mode is to enable the Extreme Graphics for the game. It has some extra graphical features over DirectX9, but in general DirectX10 shares multithreaded similarities with DirectX11, without providing much extra graphical features over DirectX9.
My DirectX10 mode works relatively well on my RX 480, I will do some further testing.

holy... i totally forgot i put up this thread...

well, would still be interesting, so thanks!

Well, I can tell you that the game does run in DX10 for me on Windows 10 (latest build).
In addition, it does allow you to enable some extra anti-aliasing options such as anti-aliasing on grass and it automatically enhances the lighting, but at some cost on the GPU and also CPU.
I suggest when enabling all these features to stay at the 1024x768 or 1280x960 resolutions, since widescreen aspect ratio's such as 1280x720 or 1920x1080 does hit CPU performance and GPU performance. The 1024x768 resolution looks more natural on this game anyways, but in the DX10 mode you have to set the desktop to 1024x768 as well, since the game does upscaling by itself in DX10 mode, and your screen will think it is receiving a 1920x1080 image and prohibit you from forcing aspect ratio settings monitor-side.