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For anyone interested, New Direct X

I have been using it for a few days and I can see improvements
in frame rates and scenery. As far as I'm concerned it's an winner.
 
It says Version 9.26.1590, so I guess it is DX9, but it is supposed to work on Vista? This is confusing me....
 
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 2000 Advanced Server; Windows 2000 Professional Edition ; Windows 2000 Server; Windows 2000 Service Pack 2; Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows 98; Windows 98 Second Edition; Windows Home Server; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Web Edition; Windows Server 2008; Windows Server 2008 Datacenter; Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V; Windows Server 2008 Standard; Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V; Windows Small Business Server 2003 ; Windows Vista; Windows Vista 64-bit Editions Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Basic; Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Premium; Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Starter; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows Web Server 2008; Windows XP; Windows XP 64-bit; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Media Center Edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Service Pack 3; Windows XP Starter Edition; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
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Quote from that site, looked there, too...
 
Sorry about that, I did a search with Firefox and it didn't come up. Crazy thing.

But I'd assume it's not for Vista because from what I understand, Vista is a DX10 platform.
 
DX10 also contains the Direct3D part of DX9 amongst others so I would imagine that running this on Vista would update the relevant parts of of DirectX that are provided for backwards compatibility.
 
Bone said:
Are you sure?
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About DX10 containing parts of DX9 for backwards compatibility? Yes. About this file updating them? No, I don't use Vista.

Run it and find out, if it won't install then no problems. If it does install then you've just updated the DX9 parts of your DirectX installation.
 
Vista runs concurrently DX9 and DX10, which is why the DX9 run-times have Vista in their compatibility listings...
when I first got this Vista machine, some of my programs wouldn't even work until I had installed DX9 (much to my chagrin, having assumed that DX10 would be backwards compatible as the other versions of DX had been...)
 
Nope. Just took a flight around SE Alaska and all was well. Nice frame rates, but that might have just been the gorgeous scenery. ;)
 
Working nicely over here... as Helldiver says, it gives better FPS and clearer scenery - and this is FS9 - not having FSX, I cannot comment there...
 
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