> Here is a response that Chuck Walbourn of Microsoft posted in the
> vista.games section on April 16th 2007
>
> "Technical clarification: Windows Vista's runtime supports Direct3D9,
> Direct3D9Ex, Direct3D10, and older interfaces. DXDiag reports it as
> "version
> 10" for simplicity, but that number has been meaningless for a few years
> now. The Windows Vista runtime also supports all the other usual DirectX
> 9.0c interfaces except DirectPlay Voice and Direct3D Retained Mode which
> were removed. When you run the DirectX End-User Runtime installer or a
> game
> uses the DirectSetup REDIST on Windows Vista (or XP SP 2 for that matter)
> nothing in the runtime gets updated or installed. Only the SDK optional
> components like D3DX9, D3DX10, XACT, XINPUT, etc. get installed.
>
> The new Aero desktop uses Direct3D9Ex. This API requires Windows Vista, a
> DX9 card, and a WDDM driver. It does NOT require Direct3D 10.
>
> The Direct3D 10 API requires Windows Vista and a Direct3D 10 video card.
> No
> released game creates a Direct3D 10 device at this time, although a number
> of them have been announced as coming in future products and/or patches"
>
> Here is a snapshot of trying to run a game like Fear, before installing
> the DirectSetup REDIST
>
http://images1.filecloud.com/431143/missing_DX_file.jpg>
> You get the same error message if you try to run Fear under XP.
>
> Apply any of the runtime updates, and the error goes away and the game
> works fine. Chuck advises against, going out to the web and grabbing just
> the one file. Not it points you to the DX runtime files
>
> From his April 9th post in Vista.games
>
> "You should never download system components from random websites and drop
> them on your system unless you know they come from a reliable source.
> That's
> a fast way to get hacked. If you are missing any version of D3DX due to a
> failed or badly desigend installer, run the DirectX End-User Runtime
> Installer on the Microsoft site and it will install all the supporting SDK
> components we've released. Got to
http://www.microsoft.com/directx/ and
> follow the link for "Get the Latest DirectX Here"
>
>
>
>
>
> "John Barnes" <jbarnes[ at ]email.net> wrote in message
> news:egQpocmiHHA.4300[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>I think you are dealing with really old information. As far as I know
>>DirectX 9.0L was the Vista predecessor to DirectX 10 that has been in
>>Vista from the beginning.
>>
>>
>> "Dale White" <dale.white[ at ]NOinsightbb.NOcom> wrote in message
>> news:O7IHI%23fiHHA.4976[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> I don't know what to tell you, if you haven't applied any of the runtime
>>> updates to Vista and you try to run a game like FEAR, BF2142, 3dMark06
>>> without applying those updates, you're going to get a d3dx9_33.dll
>>> missing message. Apply any of the DX9 runtime updates and that problem
>>> goes away.
>>>
>>> "Carlos" <Carlos[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:4AE2AAC7-555F-4776-8AE9-92658E5E4277[ at ]microsoft.com...
>>>> Dale:
>>>> There seems to be no need of updating DirectX 9 in Vista.
>>>> I regularly check what updates have been installed and there is no
>>>> update
>>>> for DirectX 9.
>>>> The one embedded in Vista DVD seems to be fine.
>>>> Carlos
>>>>
>>>> "Dale White" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> DX 9.0c is the latest full version for XP, with an April 2007 update
>>>>> for the
>>>>> runtime files
>>>>>
>>>>> You can apply those same April updates to Vista(32 or 64). This is
>>>>> outside
>>>>> of theDX10 that Vista also has.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Kue2" <h.j.kennedy[ at ]sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>>>>> news:uQcPPoeiHHA.4496[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>>> > what is the latest version available for Win XP 64?
>>>>> > what is the latest version available for Vista Ultimate 64?
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
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