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  1. December 22nd, 2002, 08:16 PM #1
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    Where To D/L DirectX 8.1

    Went to MS site and searched for DirectX 8.1.

    When I click on the link it automatically takes me to the download for 9.0.

    I know 9.0 is the latest version, but I don't know if I want to jump from 7.0 to 9.0.

    Running WinMe, AMD Athlon 950Mhz, NVIDIA GeForce MX 200 (I think), SB Live Value.

    Btw I would Ghost my system before doing the install in case of bad side effects.

    Btw2 I have not had any problems with DirectX 7.0, but thought maybe it was time for an upgrade to a high version ??
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  2. December 22nd, 2002, 09:17 PM #2
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    Hi Nix
    Perhaps get DirectX here?

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  3. December 22nd, 2002, 09:51 PM #3
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    Thanks Daisy, that worked a treat.
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  4. December 23rd, 2002, 02:10 PM #4
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    You're most welcome!

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  6. December 23rd, 2002, 05:41 PM #5
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    Daisy, here's a bit of irony for you.

    I ghosted my Win98 partition and installed DirectX 8.1 (have left WinMe as is for now).

    I then installed a demo of a game called Tale Of The Druids and was playing it most of last night.

    I got a bit stuck and decided to read the readme.rtf and in that it quoted the minimum specifications and one of them was DirectX 8.0

    So, by chance, I had decided to upgrade to 8.1 thus satisfying a requirement of this demo without even realising it.

    If I can be bothered I should restore the ghost image and see if the game plays ok with DirectX 7.0.

    Thanks for pointing me to the right spot.
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  7. December 24th, 2002, 02:07 AM #6
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    Nix, there's an 8.1B version. Here's the link. The page still loads, but I didn't try to download it.


    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/r...top&ordinal=41

    EDIT-so I went and tried it, since I had to test the link, and the download is still available.
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    DirectX Buster is a DirectX uninstaller for Windows 9X, ME and W2K And there are some versions of DX there also. Yes, I have used them and DirectX Buster .




    [Moderator edit] A member pointed out your original link was to a German page, and didn't get you directly to the DirectX Buster software (although it had a well-defined link to the dxbuster page, albeit the German page) and had links to porn sites. Die neue Link ist ohne Pornographie, und ist auf Englisch
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  9. December 26th, 2002, 02:14 AM #8
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    DirectX 9 now available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.asp
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  11. December 26th, 2002, 06:56 PM #9
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    So Funny

    Thanks for all the additional posts guys.

    Funnily enough my wife bought me Baldur's Gate with expansion pack for Christmas and it requires DirectX 8.0 as a minimum.

    So my whim to install 8.1 has proved beneficial after all.
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