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Old 06-16-2009   #1 (permalink)


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playing flight simulator

My problem is when i play in my windows vista flight simulator game , a message come and tell me that your direcx version is not compatable with the game. And as i knew that windows vista have directx 10 and flight simulator only works in directx 9.c , i want your help on how to solve this problem .
I tried to download directx 9.c from many websites but still its not working , please help me to solve my problem as fast as possible .

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Old 06-17-2009   #2 (permalink)


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Re: playing flight simulator

Hello osama,
Which version of flight sim is it ?, when you installed the game was there an option to install directx ?.
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Old 06-17-2009   #3 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate X64, Windows 7 X64, XP Pro X64, Vista Home Premium X86
 
 

Re: playing flight simulator

check the game install cd and see if directx is on there and try to install it from there.
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Old 06-17-2009   #4 (permalink)


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Re: playing flight simulator

thx , but i checked that too . My directx version is 10 in my vista , but the flight simulator x couldn't be installed in my pc , so i tried to install it in another computer that have directx 9 and then play it in my pc , still it's not working .

If there any website that i can download directx 9 ?
thanks
osama.
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Old 06-17-2009   #5 (permalink)


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Re: playing flight simulator

If you want to download directx 9c follow the link below.


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
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Old 06-17-2009   #6 (permalink)


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Re: playing flight simulator

Will it work , i mean will flight simulator work then ...
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Old 06-17-2009   #7 (permalink)


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Re: playing flight simulator

When you installed the game was there an option to install directx ?.
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Old 06-18-2009   #8 (permalink)


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Re: playing flight simulator

no .
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Old 06-18-2009   #9 (permalink)


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Re: playing flight simulator

Try the directx download and see if that works. You could update your graphics driver too.
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Old 06-18-2009   #10 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate X64, Windows 7 X64, XP Pro X64, Vista Home Premium X86
 
 

Re: playing flight simulator

even with out directx 9 is should work if he has directx 10 installed.

does it say anything when you try to play it any error codes? or file missing errors?
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