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04-30-2007
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| | DirectX on Vista? A program I wrote requires DirectX 8, which since XP, I have not needed to include in my installer, because XP had DirectX 8 installed automatically. On Vista, is there a version of DirectX installed by default? Thanks, Bob P.S. I tried installing the DirectX 8.a runtime (from dx80nteng.exe), but it won't install on Vista. Is this a feature? |
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04-30-2007
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| | Re: DirectX on Vista? There's no need to install DirectX. DirectX 10 is part of Windows Vista. "Bob Eaton" <pete_dembrowski@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eGZ36tuiHHA.688@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >A program I wrote requires DirectX 8, which since XP, I have not needed to >include in my installer, because XP had DirectX 8 installed automatically. > > On Vista, is there a version of DirectX installed by default? > > Thanks, > Bob > > P.S. I tried installing the DirectX 8.a runtime (from dx80nteng.exe), but > it won't install on Vista. Is this a feature? > > |
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04-30-2007
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| | Re: DirectX on Vista? You got Direct X 10 on Vista installed  Regards, Ruwan Dissanayake "Bob Eaton" <pete_dembrowski@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eGZ36tuiHHA.688@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >A program I wrote requires DirectX 8, which since XP, I have not needed to >include in my installer, because XP had DirectX 8 installed automatically. > > On Vista, is there a version of DirectX installed by default? > > Thanks, > Bob > > P.S. I tried installing the DirectX 8.a runtime (from dx80nteng.exe), but > it won't install on Vista. Is this a feature? > > |
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04-30-2007
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| | Re: DirectX on Vista? Bob Eaton wrote: > A program I wrote requires DirectX 8, which since XP, I have not needed to > include in my installer, because XP had DirectX 8 installed automatically. > > On Vista, is there a version of DirectX installed by default? > > Thanks, > Bob > > P.S. I tried installing the DirectX 8.a runtime (from dx80nteng.exe), but it > won't install on Vista. Is this a feature? The DirectX 8 runtime doesn't support Vista (because of when it was made!). Since DirectX has to interface with the graphics and sound drivers, it has to know a lot about the internals of the OS. Vista includes DirectX 9.0L (which can run DirectX 8 programs) and DirectX 10 (which only runs DirectX 10 programs). Alun Harford |
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