Initial Startup question 1) about DX9 2) about CD boot

[Albert Yu]

Hi! all

I'm just delving in xpe, hope my questions won't appear too newbie for you
all, cheers

1. I understand DX9 will only be supported under xpe sp2. I assume that
means the DX9 component will only be available under SP2 componnent manager.
am I right? In that case, can I just install a DX9 runtime to the running
xpe OS (SP1) and have DX9 funtionality?

2. If I were to use a CD boot without a harddisk, roughly how much memeory
will be needed? Let's say, i would need TCP/IP and directX.

Thanks all.

 

[KM]

Albert,

Hi! all

I'm just delving in xpe, hope my questions won't appear too newbie for you
all, cheers

1. I understand DX9 will only be supported under xpe sp2. I assume that
means the DX9 component will only be available under SP2 componnent manager.
am I right? In that case, can I just install a DX9 runtime to the running
xpe OS (SP1) and have DX9 funtionality?

Check out www.xpefiles.com. There is DX9 component (installer during FBA)
for XPe/SP1.

2. If I were to use a CD boot without a harddisk, roughly how much memeory
will be needed? Let's say, i would need TCP/IP and directX.

Basic TCP/IP stack won't bring muc to your image size.
But DX will. However, DirectX stuff includes many different components. You
may not need some of them.

Thanks all.

KM

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Q2. If I were to use a CD boot without a harddisk, roughly how much memeory

will be needed? Let's say, i would need TCP/IP and directX.

A2:
If by memory you mean RAM memory then answer is same as you would need when you boot from HDD.

Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[Albert Yu]

KM,

I've searched the mentioned site using 'directx' and 'direct', it came out
nothing

And I do remember I read somewhere on the microsoft site that DX9 will only
be supported in SP2. Is the DX9 component u mentioned created by a third
party?

thanks

 

[Albert Yu]

Slobodan:

Thanks I got what u mean, indeed my question is a newbie question..

 

[KM]

Albert,

You needed to search for "dx" there

http://www.xpefiles.com/a_file.cfm?custid=Development Utilities&fileid=dxinstall.zip&groupName=Main

KM