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March 24th, 2003, 07:14 AM
#1
DirectX 9 is bad for older games
I just installed DirectX 9 (for Freelancer) and now games that required older versions of DirectX run terrible. Freelancer runs great, no complaintes there, but games like Homeworld and Sim City 3000 are not playable at all, very choppy.
I could not find anything on this and was hopeing someone here would know of this problem.
System is an Athlon 1600+, 382 DDR memory and GeForce 3 Ti, running Win98
As I said, these worked fine before DirectX 9 was installed...
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March 24th, 2003, 05:57 PM
#2
Registered User
any updates for those games? (patches are your friend lol)
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March 24th, 2003, 08:36 PM
#3
Nope, at least not any newer then what I already had installed 
Patches are good, but DirectX updates are historic nightmares 
OK, fixed it...I re-installed DirectX 9 from Microsoft and that cleared up the speed problems. I guess the install from the Freelancer CD was not good?
Last edited by mahdi; March 24th, 2003 at 10:15 PM.
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May 5th, 2003, 05:20 AM
#4
Geezer
...I re-installed DirectX 9 from Microsoft and that cleared up the speed problems....
There was direct x 9.0 (on your cd?) now there's 9.0a (to download) ..... shows what a little 'a' can do !!!
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May 5th, 2003, 12:28 PM
#5
Registered User
DirectX 9 uninstaller here: http://www.iexbeta.com/comments.php?...ight=directX+9
...if you ever need one.
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