Is DirectX 9 really necessary?
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Is DirectX 9 really necessary?
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?
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?
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I'd upgrade anyway.
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!Hollywood Hasney wrote:I just wouldn't... makes some older game incompatible! If you have a game that requires DX9, go for it... otherwise, there's no pointperry2175 wrote:I'd upgrade anyway.
Incompatible! That sucks...
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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.
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.
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Well Enter The Matrix requires it so I think it's a must
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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.
And DirectX is forewards and backwards compatible which causes no problem.
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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.
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.
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Can't be Direct X, im using 9b and it's fine for me.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
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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.