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April 30th, 2002, 08:20 PM
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Tech question: DirectX and hardware support
If a video card has hardware support for an older Version of DirectX, can installing a newer Version do anything that can damage the card?
My instincts say it can't, but the video card I recently replaced blew out immediately after I installed DirectX 8.0, which makes me leery of upgrading again.
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May 2nd, 2002, 12:37 PM
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Re: Tech question: DirectX and hardware support
I have never heard of it. In fact I have several older cards here and always update to the newest Versions of DirectX without any problems.
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Originally posted by capnq:
If a video card has hardware support for an older Version of DirectX, can installing a newer Version do anything that can damage the card?
My instincts say it can't, but the video card I recently replaced blew out immediately after I installed DirectX 8.0, which makes me leery of upgrading again.
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May 2nd, 2002, 10:37 PM
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Re: Tech question: DirectX and hardware support
Thanks; that's reassuring. The replacement card has GeForce 2 chips and DirectX 6 support. (I figured with GeForce 4 being out now, a G2 would be really cheap.) Now I can reinstall one of my DirectX 7 games.
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May 2nd, 2002, 10:59 PM
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Re: Tech question: DirectX and hardware support
There is DirectX 8 out there and you should download this one. I had a GF2, too, and it worked like a charm with DirectX 8.
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May 3rd, 2002, 06:58 PM
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Re: Tech question: DirectX and hardware support
When I tried to install DirectX from the video card's drivers CD, I got an error message that Win95 doesn't support 8.0. I've also had a tech support person tell me that, but I didn't believe him, because I've got at least two games that list Win95 and DirectX 8.0 in the system requirements.
At the moment, I'm having trouble installing a game that only needs DirectX 6.0, which the video card manual claims it does support.
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May 5th, 2002, 08:00 PM
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Re: Tech question: DirectX and hardware support
Installing a game that included DirectX 7 drivers worked, and also solved the problem with the other game's installer.
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