direct X

[Kue2]

what is the latest version available for Win XP 64?
what is the latest version available for Vista Ultimate 64?

 

[Dale White]

DX 9.0c is the latest full version for XP, with an April 2007 update for the
runtime files

You can apply those same April updates to Vista(32 or 64). This is outside
of theDX10 that Vista also has.

 

[Guest]

Dale:
There seems to be no need of updating DirectX 9 in Vista.
I regularly check what updates have been installed and there is no update
for DirectX 9.
The one embedded in Vista DVD seems to be fine.
Carlos

 

[Kue2]

Carlos: Directx in vista is version 10

Dale:
There seems to be no need of updating DirectX 9 in Vista.
I regularly check what updates have been installed and there is no update
for DirectX 9.
The one embedded in Vista DVD seems to be fine.
Carlos

 

[Dale White]

I don't know what to tell you, if you haven't applied any of the runtime
updates to Vista and you try to run a game like FEAR, BF2142, 3dMark06
without applying those updates, you're going to get a d3dx9_33.dll missing
message. Apply any of the DX9 runtime updates and that problem goes away.

 

[Dale White]

Vista has both DX9.0L and DX10 installed

The technical stuff can be read here
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa663366.aspx

 

[Kue2]

Hi Dale
your information is very interesting.
View this link the system requirements do not list Vista as a supported
operating system.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&mg_id=10118&displaylang=en

 

[Milhouse Van Houten]

I note that Nero 7.x (latest version) insists upon installing DirectX 9.0c
in Vista before installing itself. If 9.0L is in Vista, I wonder why it
can't use that.

 

[John Barnes]

I think you are dealing with really old information. As far as I know
DirectX 9.0L was the Vista predecessor to DirectX 10 that has been in Vista
from the beginning.

 

[Kurt Herman]

Because Nero isn't "looking" for DX9.L The people who programmed Nero hard
coded it to look for DX9c. Simple , really.

Its the same for almost every other game out there. They do a check for a
specific flavor of DX9, and if its not there, installs it.

Kurt

 

[Dale White]

Actually, I think they just hard code to install it regardless. When I
install Battlefield 2, it wants to install DX9.0c, even though it's already
instealled. if I cancel the install, it cancels the game install. This is
under XP, as well as Vista.

But has it's been pointed out before, it doesn't really install anything. It
checks each file it wants to install and if the file is the same or newer,
it doesn't install anything.

 

[Dale White]

Here is a response that Chuck Walbourn of Microsoft posted in the
vista.games section on April 16th 2007

"Technical clarification: Windows Vista's runtime supports Direct3D9,
Direct3D9Ex, Direct3D10, and older interfaces. DXDiag reports it as "version
10" for simplicity, but that number has been meaningless for a few years
now. The Windows Vista runtime also supports all the other usual DirectX
9.0c interfaces except DirectPlay Voice and Direct3D Retained Mode which
were removed. When you run the DirectX End-User Runtime installer or a game
uses the DirectSetup REDIST on Windows Vista (or XP SP 2 for that matter)
nothing in the runtime gets updated or installed. Only the SDK optional
components like D3DX9, D3DX10, XACT, XINPUT, etc. get installed.

The new Aero desktop uses Direct3D9Ex. This API requires Windows Vista, a
DX9 card, and a WDDM driver. It does NOT require Direct3D 10.

The Direct3D 10 API requires Windows Vista and a Direct3D 10 video card. No
released game creates a Direct3D 10 device at this time, although a number
of them have been announced as coming in future products and/or patches"

Here is a snapshot of trying to run a game like Fear, before installing the
DirectSetup REDIST
http://images1.filecloud.com/431143/missing_DX_file.jpg

You get the same error message if you try to run Fear under XP.

Apply any of the runtime updates, and the error goes away and the game works
fine. Chuck advises against, going out to the web and grabbing just the one
file. Not it points you to the DX runtime files

From his April 9th post in Vista.games

"You should never download system components from random websites and drop
them on your system unless you know they come from a reliable source. That's
a fast way to get hacked. If you are missing any version of D3DX due to a
failed or badly desigend installer, run the DirectX End-User Runtime
Installer on the Microsoft site and it will install all the supporting SDK
components we've released. Got to http://www.microsoft.com/directx/ and
follow the link for "Get the Latest DirectX Here"