Grid 2 on Windows XP?

[Unmend]

I've been wondering, is there ANY way that i can play Grid 2 on my Windows XP system?

[Turban Maker]

Windows XP only (officially) supports directX 9.0c, and this game requires directx 11.

There might be some unofficial ways to run DX11 on XP, I'll do some digging for you.


EDIT: I can't find anything that works, shame that you bought the game and can't play it :/

Your only choice it seems would be to upgrade to Windows 7 / 8

[Mindman]

im suprised anyone still uses xp for gaming, it was a great OS even better than current ones IMO. you should have taken the windows 8 upgrade opportunity last year

[Unmend]

Kk, ty for the replies

[Snakeules]

I am still on WinXP. MS meesed up with Vista, 7 and 8 imo. WinXP is still the best OS for me. BUT, when I want to play Grid 2 or other games they dont work on XP I have to upgrade on Win7 so I decided to have an dual OS on my machine. XP is still my primary OS and 7 is only there when its needed.

[Unmend]

Myeah, good idea

[Mindman]

well with current hardware it makes xp useless for me. but it is a great OS.

[Unmend]

Indeed

[󠀡 󠀡󠀡󠀡 󠀡󠀡󠀡]

XP doesn't handle multi core processors as well as the newer OS, you will see most activity on core 0 rather than being distributed accross the others, XP doesn't support newer DirectX versions (or rather, they don't support XP...), XP doesn't support SSDs properly (no TRIM support so performance will degrade & will shorten the drives life) & XP doesn't support more than 4gb RAM (unless you use PAE hack which is not proper support or XP 64-bit which was abandoned by Microsoft long before the 32-bit) so it is not really ideal for gaming computers. It is good for basic office operations if you have an additional PC for business purposes but for newer computers you are best off using 7 or 8 (if you can get used to the UI changes, the speed benefits are worth the upgrade)

[Unmend]

Hmm yeah, but my DVD-drive doesn't use SATA cable so its not compitable with my new motherboard, so gotta find another way to get windows 7/8 .. Any ideas?

[Ritchey#228471]

Download the ISO file from microsoft (before people start crying again: yes that is legal) and make a bootable USB-stick.

[Xaero]

Originally posted by Agret:

XP doesn't handle multi core processors as well as the newer OS, you will see most activity on core 0 rather than being distributed accross the others, XP doesn't support newer DirectX versions (or rather, they don't support XP...), XP doesn't support SSDs properly (no TRIM support so performance will degrade & will shorten the drives life) & XP doesn't support more than 4gb RAM (unless you use PAE hack which is not proper support or XP 64-bit which was abandoned by Microsoft long before the 32-bit) so it is not really ideal for gaming computers. It is good for basic office operations if you have an additional PC for business purposes but for newer computers you are best off using 7 or 8 (if you can get used to the UI changes, the speed benefits are worth the upgrade)

I wish those on XP would explain why they remain on XP as you have expounded on the reasons why XP is not a great OS anymore. Win Vista was fine, other than problems caused by hardware manufacturers, bad drivers, sucky hardware specs (for, at the time, modern PCs). 7 only made it better and by then everyone had caught up. 8, is fine for me -- some tasks are faster, others take longer (vs 7) and I don't really use the Modern interface other than to how the Start Menu is used in 7 (WinKey and start typing, or maybe just a single click). Every game and piece of software I own runs fine or runs as it did on 7. Well, Ragnarok Online (the first one) does not like Win 8 as it runs at 20FPS in fullscreen instead of 60FPS.

Thinking of using XP now, with multigigabyte video cards, multigigabyte SDRAM, and programs that can use more than 2-3GBs is laughable. So I guess these folks are running older hardware -- oh wait, they want to run GRID2. Good luck with that.

[Xaero]

Originally posted by Unmend:

Hmm yeah, but my DVD-drive doesn't use SATA cable so its not compitable with my new motherboard, so gotta find another way to get windows 7/8 .. Any ideas?

Use this tool to make a Win7/8 USB drive with the ISO you have downloaded:

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

I believe this is the right tool.

[Unmend]

Or not. I just havn't used my PC for years and at the time it was running win XP, and then i decided to buy new parts for it (motherboard, graphics card etc.) and now my DVD-drive is just too old :p

[zbobg]

You can use any ISO of Windows 7/8 to install, when you have bought a copy of Windows the only other thing you need is the Key that came with the disk to activate Windows.

Download an ISO, mount it with Alcohol 52% or Daemon Tools, install, activate. Simples.

Alcohol 52% Free Edition:
http://www.free-downloads.net/programs/Alcohol_52__Free_Edition

Daemon Tools Lite 4 (Free version):
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/products/dtLite#features

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