Direct X In Vista Beta 2

[Guest]

Direct X doesn't seem to be up to date in Vista yet. I have a lot of recent
games which need the latest updates for Direct X 9 which were last released
in June 2006. These updates are missing from Vista Beta at the moment.

The missing files are D3dx9_24.dll through to D3dx9_30.dll

I've copied the versions from my XP install into the System32 folder of the
Vista install and my newer games now work fine.

My question is, Will Microsoft be including these missing files in the final
release of Vista?

Regard

Craig Beddows

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

The reason you are "missing files" may be because Vista uses Directx 10.
Perhaps it is your game vendors who need to be brought up to date?

 

[Nightowl]

i was under the impression because direct x 10 is not backwards compatable,
they are using direct x 9 for this compatibility. along side direct x 10??
though i may be wrong.

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

After getting off my duff and actually researching the issue instead of
merely spouting-off:

Yes, you are correct in the fact that Vista also contains DirectX 9. I was
incorrect.

Possibly the answer to the missing DirectX 9 .dll's is in Windows not making
the noted June update available to Vista? I'm only guessing.

 

[Guest]

I guess we will find out at release. I hope this info is useful to anyone
who needs help running the latest Direct X 9 games.

 

[Paul Smith]

This problems happens on Windows XP too, basically some game developers use
a different version of DirectX 9 compared to the one Microsoft actually has
released, so you need to run the DX setup on the disc with the game to get
the extra files across. Even if you're using the "latest" version of
DirectX.

If you run the DXsetup program on the disc it'll copy the files over for you
on Vista too.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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[Guest]

i dont have this problem however, some of my games look different, such as
halo for pc. bumpmapping looks better. thought this is beciase of direct x
10 somehow. but now i know from u guys that its not direct x 10 (or
Direct10 as they will call it) its direct x 9.

in additiion dxdiag has been giving me a graphics card memory of 191mb when
i know i have 64mb. and why does it say direct x 10 in there aswell i
thought u said its not in vista beta 2?. vista beta2 5384.

 

[MG]

Hi, I cannot find the said files from my XP system. I've run dxdiag and
verified that I am running directX9c on that system. I also don't see the
files under the DirectX Files tab in the diagnostics screen. Any ideas?