Vista Tutorial - Running Directx 9 games from Vista

I've tried to run Call of Juarez and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, which used
to run fine under XP. Both seem to need Directx 9 files to operate and won't
work under Vista. Any suggestions?

"Gerry54321" <Gerry54321@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've tried to run Call of Juarez and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, which
> used
> to run fine under XP. Both seem to need Directx 9 files to operate and
> won't
> work under Vista. Any suggestions?

What error message do you get if any?

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> "Gerry54321" <Gerry54321@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > I've tried to run Call of Juarez and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, which
> > used
> > to run fine under XP. Both seem to need Directx 9 files to operate and
> > won't
> > work under Vista. Any suggestions?
>
> What error message do you get if any?
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
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> One of them asks for D3DX9.32.DLL. and the other just says it's stopped working.

"Gerry54321" <Gerry54321@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> One of them asks for D3DX9.32.DLL.

That one should be fixable by installing DirectX from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Or possibly from on the game's disc.

> and the other just says it's stopped working.

That could be due to quite a few reasons. Have you gone to the Problems and
Solution Center to see if its returned any fixes for that issue yet?

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> "Gerry54321" <Gerry54321@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> > One of them asks for D3DX9.32.DLL.
>
> That one should be fixable by installing DirectX from:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
> Or possibly from on the game's disc.
>
> > and the other just says it's stopped working.
>
> That could be due to quite a few reasons. Have you gone to the Problems and
> Solution Center to see if its returned any fixes for that issue yet?
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
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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?

"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.

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Yeovil, UK.
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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.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
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>
> Many thanks Paul - I'll try that!

"Gerry54321" <Gerry54321@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Many thanks Paul - I'll try that!


It will work as I run Call of Juarez on Vista64 fine. But I knew to install
DX9 first.

"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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> "Gerry54321" <Gerry54321@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B62A0D2D-CB92-471D-AFE3-E05BA883AB0A@microsoft.com...
>
> 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.

"Andy [YaYa]" <android8675@MAPSONhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Windows normally doesn't come with DirectX.

XP comes with DX8.