Phase 3 Install and DirectX

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SirMike1983

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Does the installation of CFS 3 and Phase 3 in any way impact the Direct X level for hardware and for software?

I have some other games on my machine and they ran fine before installing CFS 3 and Phase 3, but now I'm getting some weird texture errors with them after installing CFS 3 and Phase 3. Usually these errors come from some kind of a change to DirectX level on the hardware or the software scheme.

My video card is an Nvidia GeForce 9500GS, but for some reason it now has a max DX level of 8.0 (seems low?). Software DX level is max at 9.0.
 
SirMike1983 said:
Does the installation of CFS 3 and Phase 3 in any way impact the Direct X level for hardware and for software?

I have some other games on my machine and they ran fine before installing CFS 3 and Phase 3, but now I'm getting some weird texture errors with them after installing CFS 3 and Phase 3. Usually these errors come from some kind of a change to DirectX level on the hardware or the software scheme.

My video card is an Nvidia GeForce 9500GS, but for some reason it now has a max DX level of 8.0 (seems low?). Software DX level is max at 9.0.
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OFF P3 has NO DX components...at all.

But Microsoft's CFS3 does and asks if you want to install DX - I hope you did not say yes?

If you have then normally your GPU card has a driver disk that has DX9.0c on it....


HTH

WM

Edit the DX on CFS3 is DX7.0 or DX8.0.. so that's not the issue - sorry cant help.
But you do need DX9.0c to be up to date for most games IIRC
 
Hmm I don't recall CFS 3 even asking if I wanted to install DirectX. It may have, though it didn't actually ask me.

I did a web update and got the software Direct X up to 9.0.

However the hardware seems to sit at 8.0. This is a newer computer, so I could swear it should be 9.0 on the hardware.

Is the hardware DirectX level a download as well? I updated to the latest drivers via Vista, but still says 8.0. Is there some way to pull the car hardware up to 9.0 at least?
 
SirMike1983 said:
Hmm I don't recall CFS 3 even asking if I wanted to install DirectX. It may have, though it didn't actually ask me.

I did a web update and got the software Direct X up to 9.0.

However the hardware seems to sit at 8.0. This is a newer computer, so I could swear it should be 9.0 on the hardware.

Is the hardware DirectX level a download as well? I updated to the latest drivers via Vista, but still says 8.0. Is there some way to pull the car hardware up to 9.0 at least?
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Type dxdiag in the run window, Vista is up to DX10.
 
SirMike1983 said:
Hmm I don't recall CFS 3 even asking if I wanted to install DirectX. It may have, though it didn't actually ask me.

I did a web update and got the software Direct X up to 9.0.

However the hardware seems to sit at 8.0. This is a newer computer, so I could swear it should be 9.0 on the hardware.

Is the hardware DirectX level a download as well? I updated to the latest drivers via Vista, but still says 8.0. Is there some way to pull the car hardware up to 9.0 at least?
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Just about all games will ask you at the end of the install if you want to install Direct X.

But Direct X WILL NOT install a older version of itself on top of a newer version. So even if you did click yes when you install CFS3 it would not have install DX7 that came with it over DX9c.
 
Alright I got the specs on my card and system-- the card is native to DirectX 10, and vista should support that I guess.

I believe it came all set up with 10, but for some reason it's reverted to 8.0. I'll try the dxdiag tool this evening. I hope that tool provides some way of forcing it up-- it's a brand new computer.
 
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