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Title: Direct X Help Please
Post by: poltergeist on September 08, 2003, 02:04:36 PM
upset.gif    when i go to play a game like legend of mir or myth of soma (if you've heard of it) it comes up with a message saying that my direct x is not installed...i run dxdiag and it clearly says that it is installed...i have version direct x 9.0b and i have tried re-installing downloading a previous version and installing that...but nothing happends. there is one thing i havent tried and that un-installing it because i dont know how...please tell me...are there any concequences of un-installing it??   upset.gif

cheers for in advance!!
Title: Direct X Help Please
Post by: Spartacus on September 08, 2003, 02:22:00 PM
First of all: Welcome to TS. smile.gif

However, one thing, though. Am I right assuming that you're using a PC?


TS is mainly for Mac related problems.
I fear, I cannot help you, but I'm sure someone here knows enough about PCs, too, to help you. smile.gif
Title: Direct X Help Please
Post by: poltergeist on September 08, 2003, 02:37:44 PM
ah sorry m8...but yeah i am using a pc and hopefully sum1 can help me out..cheers
Title: Direct X Help Please
Post by: Dreambird on September 08, 2003, 10:23:38 PM
Unfortunately you can't uninstall DirectX... I have only gone to DirectX 7 on my PC since I don't use it a lot anymore and it's "ancient"... but I remember that lovely piece of software well, I always crossed everything I could before installing!

It usually goes well but now and then, not. Have you tried running all the tests that come with it? I can access them by running dxdiag.exe and working through the tabs, if v9 is still the same sort of thing. Also see if any of the drivers are marked with exclamations or "x's" so forth to indicate if there is a problem.

You don't mention what OS you are running but if it's ME or XP... is there any chance you can do a system restore?

There's more info here:Direct X 9

If you don't have any luck with any of this and no one else has any ideas there's a great Windows support board listed in our "links" sections accessible at the bottom of the page.

Chances are good someone there may have run into something similar...
Title: Direct X Help Please
Post by: kelly on September 09, 2003, 10:17:17 AM
Yeah. What Dreambird says. smile.gif

You can't go back without Reformatting your Hard Drive.

You may want to bakup your stuff and do that.

Just use Google and search for "DirectX 9 problems".

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=...G=Google+Search