Other Applications • Re: Dactyloidae Browser (Basilisk fork)

I had to lock out DX11 to 7+ because of compiler errors, was I accidentally targeting Vista RTM lol

Yeah, the issue is that platform update that added DX11 was kinda late in the Windows Vista lifecycle... most stuff will assume Vista doesn't have it unless you explicitly target Vista SP2, I think. And unfortunately, some stuff doesn't have that level of granularity.

I knew all of you would push back on XP but I knew Vista isn't too bad to port from if the app already supports 7, considering as you said, Vista was just beta Win7 API wise, especially later on in it's life. This is also why r3dfox supported Vista without much hassle, compared to XP.

Yeah, there was as I recall no major structural reason why Vista was off the table, purely lack of demand and a lot of annoying edge cases that had to be handled, like DX10/DX11 depending on service pack, a couple of useful missing APIs that left critical sections in the code, etc.