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April 24th, 2004 13:00
DirectX 9.0 revert to 8.0?
I'm cheating, but since hardly anyone participates in the Latitude or Win2K forums I thought I might try here. I installed DirectX 9 in my Latitude running Win2K Pro, before realizing my video driver was the default/generic ATI mobility. On attempting to install the dedicated driver I get warning: 'cannot find DirectX 8.0, Please install'. Oops, since you can't un-install DirectX in Win2K, does anyone know if you can 'Go Back', in other words, can I safely downgrade back to 8.0. The download instruction only mentions upgrading. Anyone with experience on this I would appreciate your comment.
Message Edited by tomintx on 04-24-2004 08:09 PM
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ceri sheeran
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April 24th, 2004 15:00
Denny,
A site already added to my favourites.
Have a good weekend, I'm duty chef thiis evening
Regards
Ceri
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April 24th, 2004 15:00
Denny Denham
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April 24th, 2004 15:00
There is a possible solution here.
ceri sheeran
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April 24th, 2004 15:00
Hi,
It is not normally possible to unistall any version of Direct X. If you have System Restore or Go Back with dates before it was installed, then possibly.
Your best option may be to plan and work towards a FDISK & FORMAT rebuild, ensuring you have all critical data backed up, all software licence codes & CD's available. All drivers for all hardware easily available. E-mail backed up and so on.
It is a lot less grief if you plan for this and have everything available and backed up ready just in case.
Then just go for it, wipe the machine and start again.
hth
Ceri
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September 13th, 2004 01:00
Just to update the thread. Have since used the uninstaller linked above, thanks. Worked great with no problems, have your O/S disk handy, as it needs to update a couple of files from it. Following that,installed DX 8.1, and the dedicated ATI driver installed just fine. Although there is no detectable changes in the display or image quality that I can see, I discovered it resolved a 3D rendering problem with a CAD app I was running.