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Direct X 9 ?

by Flora S. Feb 8, 2004 10:07AM PST

MEMORY 128MB
RAGE PRO AGP
3139 MB FREE SPACE ON HARD DRIVE
OS WINDOWS 98
DIRECT X 6.1


I formatted my hard drive and installed Windows ME and directx9. I had trouble with the graphics on the
deer hunter. I formatted again and installed Win 98 and directx6.1. Everything is working fine now. Could you please tell me why I had trouble?
Windows update said that directx9 was a critical update.
I really would like to have Windows ME and directX9

Thank You
Flora

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Re:Direct X 9 ?
by Oil_Tan Feb 8, 2004 1:45PM PST

Not sure why you had this problem. The cd for my rage pro 128 agp card had its own version of directx, worked fine.

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Re:Direct X 9 ?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 8, 2004 8:24PM PST

After installing Microsoft Windows of any version the installer gets to finish it by finding, locating and installing drivers for motherboard, video cards, audio, USB and what else the machine has.

Microsoft does not do this for the user and new OS installers only learn this by trial and error or by people telling them point-blank.

Bob

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Re:Direct X 9 ?
by JenDScot Feb 9, 2004 9:33PM PST

Many times another consideration is the type or version of program you are running. I have direct X 9b in 98SE, running both 16 bit and 32 bit interactive gaming programming. The difference in the 16 bit games, you must turn down your settings for them to run properly, or you will have video issues. (My vid card ATI Radeon 9000 64MB DDR with current catalyst driver and control panel update). Most video games have settings in them to properly set them up to run in windows. You need to set them for lower res than the 32 bit games, or poor rendering will result. Those gaming applications are not designed for the newer systems with P4 and faster bussing of data, but you can tweak their settings to allow them to run on them without issues. Remember in older games turn your res settings down.

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