sh4 gold edition & windows 7--a 'lil help please?

[Arclight]

2 things to note:

Installing DX9 will not break DX10/11. They share most of their files, so installing DX9 will not overwrite newer files, just add 1 or 2 that are missing.

Update your graphics driver if you haven't already.

*I'm starting to doubt a 6150 is even capable of running this game. Gonna be a slideshow if it does.

[green_abobo]

beginning to wonder that myself. it wants to run,it just isn't.

[Smartcom5]

Originally Posted by Arclight

2 things to note:

Installing DX9 will not break DX10/11. They share most of their files, so installing DX9 will not overwrite newer files, just add 1 or 2 that are missing.

Update your graphics driver if you haven't already.

*I'm starting to doubt a 6150 is even capable of running this game. Gonna be a slideshow if it does.

Sure, but it's almost safer just not to install the DirectX version the game is shipped with [in generally] - if it's deselectable (most setups don't give that ability to the user but rather install it by default).

This case can [and does often] result in those scenarios that the newer versions [especially under 7] will be replaced with the older one from the setup.

So, if it's possible, disable the DirectX-Setup and just start the game and wait for the prompt that mentioned the missed DirectX files - they consists usually of the extensions

• D3Dx9_24.dll → *_42.dll
  [18, _24 → _42]
• XAudio2_0.dll → XAudio2_5.dll
  [6, _0 → _5]
• Xinput1_1.dll → Xinput1_3.dll
  [3, 1_1 → 1_3]

Then, just google it - the particular extension can be freely downloaded.
Beside that, every single extension [of the above named] is separately available - through Microsoft itself, in order that noone has to reinstall DirectX completely - and overwrite [probably] newer versions!

Don't get me wrong, but i can't hear it anymore - the last final DirectX 9 version [9.0c] is about nearly two years - aside from the .27-minor update last year [august if i remember correctly …] that is already implemented into the actual DirectX 10/10.1 & 11.

I advise anybody to go this way to prevent the sheer mass of corrupted installations that are caused by the countless crappy game-install setups.


In this sense

Smartcom

[Capt. Hood]

I've just installed SH4G onto windows 7 with Directx9 From the dvd as suggested and it has worked ok for me, I don't seem to have any problems with other programes in Windows 7 as yet.

[Pisces]

Back in the DirectX 7/8 days I was told (by a game programming book) that later versions of DirectX were downwards compatible with older ones. They simply contained the code of the older version seperate from the newer code. If an old game/application needed the old code it would never have to deal with the new one. Just refference the functions of the old one. So I would think that DirectX 10 or 11 even has DirectX 3.0 in it. Did that downwards compatibility rule change as of late (past years)?

[Arclight]

Not that I know of, but I did have an issue running a DX9 game after installing that first Win7 beta release. Letting the DX9 (web) updater run solved it, DX10 games remained perfectly functional afterwards.

Maybe just a problem with the beta release, missing file or something.