Re: DirectX 9

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From: MrXTC
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:08

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What is the point of installing it now, there are no games using any DX9
features and most graphics cards don't support it. Even if you do have a DX9
compatible graphics card you're only going to be able to run a few
manufacturers demos (if they've made any yet). You may risk the stability of
your system by installing DX9 and it's not easy to uninstall, wait until
there's a need to use it before installing, there's no benefit yet.

"Fan Of Carnivorous Birds" <rad...@charter.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 04:55:05 GMT, Inglo <speh...@flapjacksrus.net>
> wrote:
>
> >If you've installed DirectX 9 final and previously had a beta of it
> >installed, is DXDiag still showing some old beta versions?  I got double
> >instances of a few dlls.  But I can't find the old files anywhere.
>
> Is there any real pressing reason I'd want to upgrade to DX9 at
> present? Or am I okay sitting back and letting bugs shake out and
> drivers become qualified?
>
> -r (win2k, msi gforce3Ti200, dx8.1)

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