New dx9c out today

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Nman

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I have no idea what they changed but there is a new dx9c for us non-vista users out here. They are dated from Febuary 2nd. I grabbed them up and they didn't hose my box. If there is anyone in the know out there. What did they change?
 
It's going to destroy your XP gaming expirinace so You will have to go for Vista :)

Same as latest nvidia drivers for XP performance just droped :(


Well just joking.




MD
 
The new DX package just updates the libraries so you wind up with something like this:
02/05/2005 07:45 PM 2,222,800 d3dx9_24.dll
03/18/2005 05:19 PM 2,337,488 d3dx9_25.dll
05/26/2005 03:34 PM 2,297,552 d3dx9_26.dll
07/22/2005 07:59 PM 2,319,568 d3dx9_27.dll
12/05/2005 06:09 PM 2,323,664 d3dx9_28.dll
02/03/2006 08:43 AM 2,332,368 d3dx9_29.dll
03/31/2006 12:40 PM 2,388,176 d3dx9_30.dll
09/28/2006 04:05 PM 2,414,360 d3dx9_31.dll
11/29/2006 01:06 PM 3,426,072 d3dx9_32.dll
(Feb will have a new one, I haven't installed it yet)

It's redundant because any (commercial) game linked to a particular d3dx9_xx.dll file will include the DX installer supporting that version with the game. :p
 
actually, it will use the latest version, that is just the latest one used during production. i have installed many a game and simply unchecked the directx install box and had no issues. IE if version 26 was made when the game was made and u had ver30, the game will use ver 30..
 
Yeah, what I meant is that if the game relies on a fix in a xx (or later) version, that version xx would be included with the game anyways.

There's no harm in installing an older version of the DX redistributable since all the files will be skipped if they already exist.
 
which version do you install, the redistributable version or the web installer one?...what's the difference?...does the web installer only install the newer files while the redistributable installs everything?
 
They both install the same thing. The redistributable has all the files with it and the web installer downloads the files then installs them. You really shouldn't even need the files. If a game requires them they will be included and DirectX will be updated when the game installs.

Seldom do you actually see any performance or stability improvements from the minor updates.
 
Anarchist4000 said:
They both install the same thing. The redistributable has all the files with it and the web installer downloads the files then installs them. You really shouldn't even need the files. If a game requires them they will be included and DirectX will be updated when the game installs.

Seldom do you actually see any performance or stability improvements from the minor updates.
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whats the point of them then?
 
The latest package for DX is the April Redist package... I don't know why you're mentioning stuff from February.
 
There's no point to getting it unless a game needs it. The reason MS releases it is they make minor tweaks and fixes. You can check MSDN, I'm sure they document what somewhere on there, but it isn't new features or anything.

Basically don't worry about it, just run the DX installers that come with games. Older DX can't be installed over newer stuff so don't worry about it doing that, it'll update if it needs to, do nothing if not.
 
Sr7 said:
The latest package for DX is the April Redist package... I don't know why you're mentioning stuff from February.
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the latest package is actually from June...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&DisplayLang=en

Sycraft said:
Basically don't worry about it, just run the DX installers that come with games. Older DX can't be installed over newer stuff so don't worry about it doing that, it'll update if it needs to, do nothing if not.
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I never install DX directly from the game itself thinking that it is always outdated...
 
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