Subj : 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : Tracker1
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed May 03 2023 13:59:58

  Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
  By: Tracker1 to Nightfox on Wed May 03 2023 04:36 pm

 Ni>> Actually, wasn't Windows 2000 the first version of an NT-based
 Ni>> Windows that could run a recent (at the time) version of DirectX? I

 Tr> I think the Win2K had decent enough OpenGL support, but not DirectX iirc,
 Tr> XP was the first windows with DX support. I think most of the DOS games
 Tr> also had issues running, at least audio and inputs were an issue in Win2K
 Tr> as well. 

Windows XP was definitely not the first Windows with DirectX support.  DirectX has been around since the mid-90s, and DirectX was initially available for Windows 95:

http://falconfly.3dfx.pl/directx.htm

Until Windows 2000, I remember a problem with Windows NT 4.0 and earlier was that the newest version of DirectX supported by NT was a fairly old verison, meaning newer Windows games wouldn't run on NT.  Windows 2000 supported a much newer version of DirectX, which allowed a lot more games to run on it.

Nightfox
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