D3D9 droppage

[Richard - Microsoft Direct3D MVP]

On the DirectXDev list, Jon Watte <jwa...@GMAIL.COM> writes:

> Windows XP has about 25% of the Steam-playing market, and it's falling
> every month.

OK, so maybe dropping D3D9 isn't such a big deal after all. However,
I'd hate to see us drop it just because we didn't make a reasonable
effort.

Well, actually its y'all who are making the effort, I'm not doing
diddly about D3D9 ;-)
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[Josh Petrie]

As much as I'd like to drop it, because I'm a lazy bastard, it's probably not viable. We'd lose a lot of users who wouldn't migrate off v1, and it would create more reason for a fork or competing API to crop up, which (in that case) wouldn't be a service to the client base.

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[@lx]

After looking at what need to be done in v2 for Direct3D9, well, It's
seems to be a pretty huge work, though that should be much more easier
to do than the work that was done for SlimDX v1...