Is DirectX 9 really necessary?

MethodGit · Post by **MethodGit** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:37 pm

I read somewhere that apparently you shouldn't really bother installing it unless you have a DirectX9-compatible motherboard/soundcard/videocard/whatever.

I have an SB Live! sound card from three-four odd years back, and I have an NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 graphics card which I believe I've been using for either two or three years. My motherboard is most recent, an ASRock K7VT2 (to fit my Athlon XP 2000+ chip in).

With all this in mind, should I stick with 8.1 or go for the "latest flava" (:roll:) and whack in 9.0?

perry · Post by **perry** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:40 pm

I'd upgrade anyway.

perry · Post by **perry** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:48 pm

Hollywood Hasney wrote:
perry2175 wrote:I'd upgrade anyway.
I just wouldn't... makes some older game incompatible! If you have a game that requires DX9, go for it... otherwise, there's no point

!

Incompatible! That sucks...

mikelomax · Post by **mikelomax** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 3:13 pm

there is no real point unless games require it or you have directX9 compatible hardware.

however i'd do it just so you that when you get a game that needs it you don't have to wait to install it before you play the game.

and it shouldn't really make anything incompatible as it's the same as any other version of directX, just with added bits.

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 3:18 pm

I never upgrade drivers or anything till something don't work right.

perry · Post by **perry** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 6:43 pm

Well Enter The Matrix requires it so I think it's a must

Vlad Tepes · Post by **Vlad Tepes** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:08 pm

Veggita2099 wrote:I never upgrade drivers or anything till something don't work right.

ditto

Firthy2002 · Post by **Firthy2002** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 7:09 pm

Vlad Tepes wrote:
Veggita2099 wrote:I never upgrade drivers or anything till something don't work right.
ditto

ditto

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:31 pm

Upgrade it only if you have to - it's been known to cause fairly major headaches.

userlain · Post by **userlain** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:14 am

Enter the Matrix is weak shit. It runs like a piece of led on my driveway.

And DirectX is forewards and backwards compatible which causes no problem.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:57 am

Well, I had issues with DirectX 5 and DirectX 3 - they didn't like each other very much. Some DX3 games didn't work properly with DX5, and I actually had DirectX 3's installer screw up a DX5 installation somehow, and all the DX5 games stopped working.

As with everything else, I don't upgrade anything major unless I require something that is only present in a newer version - major bugfixes or additional functionality usually.

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 10:03 am

My card came with DX9 already installed on it, i just upgraded to 9.0b

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 1:04 am

Your card had DX9? It's a Windows component - it doesn't really have anything to do with the hardware.

NiGHTSFTP · Post by **NiGHTSFTP** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 1:26 am

DirectX 9.0b should cause no problems. I challenge you to find a game that will run fine on DirectX 7 but not DirectX 9.0b.

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 10:55 am

well i am having a few problems with counter-strike. the colors get messed up sometimes, and other times they're just fine

perry · Post by **perry** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 3:03 pm

Lunchbox wrote:well i am having a few problems with counter-strike. the colors get messed up sometimes, and other times they're just fine

Can't be Direct X, im using 9b and it's fine for me.

Vlad Tepes · Post by **Vlad Tepes** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:08 pm

I've had few problems with DX upgrades, but I did have a major headache with DX8. I already had DX8, and I bought UT2003, which tried to install DX8 over DX8. For some reason it didn't detect that it was already installed, and it screwed everything up. I had to go into the registry to fix it

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 8:48 pm

well i figured out what the problem was. There must be something wrong with my opengl settings cuz everything works fine under direct3d. the colours get messed on opengl for some reason. any suggestions as to why?

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 9:17 am

Dodgy video card drivers?

MethodGit · Post by **MethodGit** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 4:46 pm

Hmmph. Found a really interesting emulator which requires DX9 - CCS64 v3.0 Beta (link can be found below Downloads table). I thought placing d3d9.dll (which it complained about not finding) beside it would trick it, which it did, only I couldn't get a screen. Damn.