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MS would not have put in the manpower and resources backporting that functionality back to Vista and Server 2008 if they didn t intend compatibility. Any OS that supports DirectX 11 (Vista, 7, 8, and 10) be able to play this game, when there is no technological reason to lock one out. That just reeks of being cheap when Vista with those updates installed(most Vista machines got them via Windows Update) is fully DirectX11 compatible.

Windows Vista is still supported till April of 2017.I would hope ZOS isn't canning support for an OS that isn't EOL yet. In otherwords WDDM 1.0 Drivers would work on Windows 7 and WDDM 1.1 Drivers would wok on Windows Vista which is how Microsoft wrote the spec in the 1st place. Vista SP2 with the 2 Platform Updates pretty much is Windows 7, all the core DirectX 11 and other functionality was backported to Vista to ensure the WDDM and other features would continue to be compatible. With all those updates installed i see ZERO technical reason ESO won't run on Windows Vista. Platform Update Supplement for Windows VistaĭirectX End User Runtime - This is a web installer that will update your DirectX Runtimes The following updates back port all the DirectX 11 functionality and Ribbon UI, XPS, etc from Windows 7 back to Windows Vista I know this because i have ran modified AMD GPU Drivers that adding a simple line to an ini file allowed them to installation nd run flawlessly including CrossfireX on Windows Vista. For starters Windows Vista X64 SP2 with the Platform Update for Windows Vista and the Platform Update Supplement for Windows Vista is the same OS as Windows 7.

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