"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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> "Gerry54321" <Gerry54321@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I thought that Vista with Directx 10 would be able to run anything lower
> than that. If I load from that site will it load Directx 9 and will that
> cause problems with Directx 10?
>
> Windows Vista has both DirectX 9 and 10, they both exist seperately, and
> the version of 9 is about 9 months out of date. 
Windows normally doesn't come with DirectX. DirectX 10 for Vista is just
DirectX 10, if you want to run a DirectX 1-9 game you have to run the
DXWEBSETUP.EXE from
http://www.microsoft.com/directx that'll put 1-9
versions of DirectX into Vista.
DirectX 10 is only for Vista, that's why it comes with Vista. Only way to
get it.