DirectX 9 on Vista's DX10

Thought I would take a break from work and see if there is a good demo to play on my newly installed Vista X64.

Came across Painkiller Overdose Demo looked good downloaded it in about 7 min’s thought great lets shoot something.

Clicked on the demo link in the start menu under games and got the error:
Direct3D error: It was not possible to create the Direct3D rendering device. You may need to reinstall DirectX and/or update your graphic card.

The graphics card is a Radeon x1950 (AGP) The annoying thing is I bought this like last year not realizing that PCI Express was the next thing and twice as fast.

It has the latest Driver from the Radeon site 8-3_vista64_dd_59753.

I didn’t realise with the update to x64 that Vista automatically comes with Dx10.

The thing is I have a game called Lost Planet Extreme Condition and on XP I would get weird graphic glitches this is one of the minor reasons I updated to Vista, because now when I run the game in Vista it runs flawlessly. This game comes with 2 launch modes LostPlanetDx9 & LostPlanetDx10.

When on XP I would launch it with the Dx9 so when I installed Vista I had the game on my other drive so no need to install it, as I do with all my games. Anyway’ I decided to test it (not knowing at that point about Vista & Dx10) I launched it on Dx9 and it plays flawlessly as I said before

I installed this Demo on the Main Drive.

So is it just an incompatibility issue with the Demo or is there some way to play this on the Dx10 Vista?

One other thing I am annoyed about is that a while ago I bought GT Legends great game got it to play on my new Sony LCD TV and runs flawlessly on full everything? Also the only game for the pc where the PS2 controller I use through a Super Box 4 (PS2 to PC adapter) worked flawlessly, including the rumble.

Well I had the adapter plugged in with the Controller connected and switched on when installing vista (tip for anyone installing vista have all the things you use connected and switched on cause Vista will recognize them saving you the process of hunting for drivers) didn’t recognize it.

Does anyone know of a driver which I doubt, or even better a replacement to do the same job but on Vista.

Appreciate any Help.

Its ok I sussed it when you install a Demo or Game and it asks to install the latest Direct X.

Install it even if you have Vista with the Direct X10 because it installs compatible files for vista to play Direct X9 games.

had this issue with COD4, it asked to install directx 9.0c ? refused and the game did not work, searched on the net and consensus was to let it install the files it needed, dx10 still here and not overwritten

Hey JayClericus glad I could help. So COD4 runs ok on Vista X64 then?

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