Running Directx 9 games from Vista

"Paul Smith" wrote:

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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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> One of them asks for D3DX9.32.DLL. and the other just says it's stopped working.

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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/details.aspx?familyid=2DA43D38-DB71...1B-BC6A

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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"Paul Smith" wrote:

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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/details.aspx?familyid=2DA43D38-DB71...1B-BC6A
>
> 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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> 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?

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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version of 9 is about 9 months out of date.

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"Paul Smith" wrote:

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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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> Many thanks Paul - I'll try that!

"Gerry54321" <Gerry54321 DeleteThis @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.DeleteThis@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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> "Gerry54321" <Gerry54321.DeleteThis@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.

install dx9 and dont worry dx10 will be there aswell as you will find when
you run dxdiag.exe from your prompt works for my 2142 demo

"Gerry54321" wrote:

> 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?

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

XP comes with DX8.

The key issue here is that "D3DX9" is not part of DirectX 9 or 10. Windows
Vista includes a DirectX runtime that supports DirectX 9 and DirectX 10
APIs, just like Windows XP SP 2 included a DirectX runtime that supports the
DirectX 9 API.

No version of Windows comes with D3DX9, D3DX10, XACT, XINPUT, or these other
DirectX SDK 'optional' components that games might or might not use. Games
are supposed to be installing them as part of their SETUP, but as happens
with every new release of Windows, it turns out a lot of them are buggy.

If you run the "latest DirectX" from www.microsoft.com/directx/ it will
install everything and the kitchen sink that ships in the DirectX SDK to
help fix these broken SETUPs. The "DirectX runtime" itself is never updated
on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP x64 Edition, Windows Vista, Windows Server
2003, etc.

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