"RlynnS" <fgsfds> wrote in message news:RlynnS.46b84d6@xxxxxx
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> Quote:
>>
>> Typically if you run the latest DirectX Runtime installer no matter
>> your
>> operating system, it will add anything you are missing. The problem
>> sounds
>> like your system itself may be corrupt, which makes restoring to a
>> valid
>> state tricky. Be sure to run all the various system disk check tools to
>> make
>> sure your system is actually stable in the first place.
>>
>> One other issue may simply be that your video driver is having
>> problems.
>>
>> --
>> -Chuck Walbourn
>> SDE, XNA Developer Connection
>>
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warrenties, and confers no
>> rights.
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
> It cannot be that the system is corrupt; as I said, my motherboard and
> harddrive were BOTH replaced very recently. I have very few things
> reinstalled.
>
> Where can I find the latest DirectX Runtime installer?
> When I went to the microsoft/directx website (forget which one it was
> now) I downloaded the files and it walked me through an install. I
> assumed it had all of the files.
>
> I also vaguely remember something to do with rolling back my graphics
> driver and using the older version to get a game to work. I am not sure
> which game or which version I did this with, but I do know that it was
> for an intel 965 express chipset family. (I know, chipsets aren't
> powerful enough to run 3d games, blah blah. Heard it before. It worked
> beautifully before my harddrive and motherboard were replaced, so this
> argument is invalid.) I cannot seem to find any information linking the
> graphics driver versions to problems with the sims 2, or even a list of
> the different versions of the graphics driver so that I can at least
> try that.
> Could anyone be of assistance with that? The DirectX runtime
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
Also Vista uses both DX9.0c and DX10. It uses DX9.0c for the 3D desktop
functions such as Aero. DX10 is only used for games that support it. Games
that are DX9 will use DX9