On Sun, 9/29/2024 4:59 AM, scbs29 wrote:
Hello all
Probably a silly question but can DirectX9 and DirectX12 co-exist in a Windows 10 Pro installation?
I have DirectX 12 installed, would it cause any problems if I was to install DirectX 9C as well ?
TIA
This shows I have DirectX 9 on my Win11 Home installation.
I have an NVidia low-end card. The materials left on my C: ,
leave me uncertain how the driver got installed here
(I have an NVidia 536 driver, but 532 seems to be installed.
The NVidia folder in C: root, is also missing, but I may have
cleaned that up some time ago (when another NVidia card got removed).
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/microsoft_directx_control_panel.html
In some cases, there is a specific DLL that has to be added to the
drivers, to "make a game happy". Some of the games insisted on
a filename check of the DLL, before they would proceed. They
did not bother with "feature-sniffing", which is another way to do it.
So on the one hand, technically, you had DirectX 9, but you
didn't have the correct DLL mix. It's possible an SDK had an installer
that dumped all of them in there.
Whether this sort of thing is required, I'm not a gamer, but I
can tell you there were DLLs I've had to add in the past to get
game demos to run. Sometimes a game actually has the DLL onboard,
ready to add to the system folder presumably.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=8109
Paul
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