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DirectX 9.0 RELEASED! | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Thanks Thomas. Microsoft has officially released DirectX 9! You can also bag the full file and not the web installed from here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/d/8/6d8af880-c050-455c-9536-4a04725db85f/dx90_redist.exe |
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This is an archived static copy of ActiveWin.com. |
| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at Thursday, December 19, 2002 09:39:08 PM |
| Ok, what will I gain by installing it? :) |
| #2 By 3 (62.253.128.7) at Friday, December 20, 2002 01:55:32 AM |
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Looks like they removed the page - download it directly from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/3/22371837-c4dc-4f8b-af21-00c80d8b235c/dxwebsetup.exe |
| #3 By 2138 (62.201.74.56) at Friday, December 20, 2002 02:15:52 AM |
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directx homepage does not even show the download, it still shows directx 8.*
interesting, you may notice some files are still beta. directx 8 still had beta files and it was final. belto... PS...it appears to be the same exact file as the last beta/rc. it just has the name changed to something else, maybe this is why m$ does not have the download showing yet. This post was edited by belto on Friday, December 20, 2002 at 03:05. |
| #4 By 3384 (12.224.67.101) at Friday, December 20, 2002 02:58:29 AM |
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I recall the DirectX page lagging in terms of updates for the last couple releases, so it's not unusual for it to happen this time. The download site gets it first. Comments on Neowin did show it's the final.
In reference to the #2 comment, does anyone know if the final WMP9 and Movie Maker 2 allow uninstall on XP, or will MS continue to ignore this request? |
| #5 By 2138 (62.201.74.34) at Friday, December 20, 2002 05:23:13 AM |
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i just ran dxdiag and it asked me to download whql drivers. dxdiag states that all files are final, but some of the drivers are not whql signed. does anyone have the same results?
belto... |
| #6 By 2459 (24.233.39.98) at Friday, December 20, 2002 07:41:19 AM |
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belto,
DX 9 is final. DX 9 does not include any drivers. Independent Hardware Vendors (NVIDIA, CREATIVE, etc) provide drivers for their respective hardware, and it is up to them to obtain WHQL certification. The drivers should, however, work regardless of certification. Whether they support DX 9 specific features is, again, up to the IHVs. In post #9, you mentioned that some files still appeared as beta. Have you previously installed the beta SDK redistributable? If so, these beta files may be left over from that, and are probably Managed DX assemblies. If this is the case, you can delete those files from the assembly folder in the Windows directory. This post was edited by n4cer on Friday, December 20, 2002 at 07:48. |
| #7 By 37 (24.196.75.142) at Friday, December 20, 2002 07:46:46 AM |
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#10 Why would there be an uninstaller for Windows Media 9 in Windows XP? There is not an uninstaller for Windows Media 8 either. This is OS dependent and integrated.
However, Windows ME and Windows 98 do have the ability to add/remove. |
| #8 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at Friday, December 20, 2002 08:08:40 AM |
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Hopefully the SDK will be out.
DirectX 9 includes a fully managed (.NET) API so you can write games and other software that uses DirectX in C# (and other .NET languages)!!!! |
| #9 By 40 (216.68.248.2) at Friday, December 20, 2002 09:26:48 AM |
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Read the EUA, it is funny. You can not download the installer and use it on several different machines, each machine must download the installer from MS. You must have a valid MS OS license to install and run DX9.
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| #10 By 6859 (204.71.100.216) at Friday, December 20, 2002 09:55:59 AM |
| Does anyone have a URL path to the whole install, rather than pointing to the web installer? |
| #11 By 3 (62.253.128.7) at Friday, December 20, 2002 10:02:42 AM |
| #20 - not yet - another note - the official page is back up: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=51608b06-ae0d-4652-b9a0-eae0aa6ae6d7&displaylang=en |
| #12 By 3 (62.253.128.7) at Friday, December 20, 2002 10:07:12 AM |
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#20 - a "friend" just sent me this:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/d/8/6d8af880-c050-455c-9536-4a04725db85f/dx90_redist.exe |
| #13 By 3384 (12.224.67.101) at Friday, December 20, 2002 11:24:14 AM |
| #15: I think you can see why it would have been handy to have particularly in the beta. Not having it must have prevented a lot of people testing it out at all. System Restore just doesn't cut it, since it takes other changes out when you restore. A Ghost image would as well and is ridiculous overkill for wanting to test out a *media player*. Admittedly, for the final this is less important. |
| #14 By 61 (65.32.170.1) at Friday, December 20, 2002 03:50:44 PM |
| Nice, 100+kb/sec... that's a definate first from the Dx download site, it usually takes ages to get it, and often craps out. This time seems to be different though. |
