The tiny fraction of folks still running Windows XP or Vista will soon lose another current game, as Path Of Exile will stop working on them after an impending update. The fine free-to-play action-RPG’s developers, Grinding Gear Games, say that “only 0.1%” of their active users use either operating system, which are which are respectively 12 and 17 years old. Grinding Gear also plan to scrap the game’s old DirectX 9 version. All of this, they say, will let them better focus their time as well as let them make the game run faster
Source : rockpapershotgun.com