Download DirectX 10 For Windows XP

Microsoft Windows DirectX 10 features heavily improved 3D rendering capabilities and several new features to deliver a new generation of visual effects with significantly improved game and 3-D application performance, Sadly, DirectX 10 is officially available for Windows Vista only and Microsoft has no plans to release DirectX 10 for Windows XP, However, guys at "Falling Leaf Systems" ported DirectX 10 on Windows XP starting the project named "Alky" with the aim to provide compatibility libraries for making DirectX 10 work on Windows XP with full support for application development API's, the Alky project is now closed but the source-code is made open-source for further development by community.

The free DirectX 10 compatibility libraries provided by Alky project allow's developers to create DirectX 10 powered games and applications on platforms other than Windows Vista using Microsoft DirectX 10 SDK and API's, Windows XP users on forums and blogs are reporting successfully using Alky's DirectX 10 for Windows XP to port and play Directx 10 only games like Halo 2 and Shadowrun on Windows XP.

You can download Alky's un-official DirectX 10 For Windows XP here, once downloaded simply extract the zip archive and copy the d3d10.dll, d3dx10.dll, d3dx10.dll, dxgi.dll, and Nucleus.dll files to your Windows folder usually C:\windows\system32\.

Direct download links:

DirectX 10 For Windows XP [Zip file, 843 KB] >>

DirectX 10 For Windows XP Source Code [Zip file, 4.48 MB] >>

NOTE: This is an unofficial hack of DirectX 10 and might be illegal and harmful to use, this is posted here for educational purpose only - Use at your own risk.