Should I uninstall DX10 on a Vista box with a DX9 video card?

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Mike B - 11 Aug 2007 12:36 GMT

Ok, I just got a new rig with Vista and DirectX 10. I don't want a DX10 vid
card, so I bought a Radeon X1650 Pro to get thru the next six months or so
(couldn't deal with the onboard GeForce crap).. Question: Should I uninstall
the DX10 drivers on vista and go to the DX9L ones? TIA!

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Ben Cottrell - 11 Aug 2007 13:05 GMT

> Ok, I just got a new rig with Vista and DirectX 10. I don't want a DX10
> vid card, so I bought a Radeon X1650 Pro to get thru the next six months
> or so (couldn't deal with the onboard GeForce crap).. Question: Should I
> uninstall the DX10 drivers on vista and go to the DX9L ones? TIA!

Are you talking about DX itself or something to do with your video card
drivers? if its for the vid card, just get the latest drivers from
ATI's website.

If its about DX itself, don't touch it unless you have some very good
reason to install DX9. (DX is backwards compatible so I can't see why
you'd want to do this anyway)

In fact, DX is designed to weld itself into your system as a core
component. once you've installed any version of DX, you can't uninstall
it, you can only overwrite it. (and overwriting DX with an older
version traditionally has some bad side effects)

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Ben Cottrell - 11 Aug 2007 13:07 GMT

> In fact, DX is designed to weld itself into your system as a core
> component. once you've installed any version of DX, you can't uninstall
> it, you can only overwrite it. (and overwriting DX with an older
> version traditionally has some bad side effects)

**unless you want to obliterate windows and start again :)

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Mike B - 11 Aug 2007 14:10 GMT

Hiya Ben, I remember you from years ago.. So tell me, are you a believer in
Vista and DX10? What rig do you currently have running?

-M

>> In fact, DX is designed to weld itself into your system as a core
>> component. once you've installed any version of DX, you can't uninstall
>> it, you can only overwrite it. (and overwriting DX with an older version
>> traditionally has some bad side effects)
>
> **unless you want to obliterate windows and start again :)

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Ben Cottrell - 11 Aug 2007 17:34 GMT

> Hiya Ben, I remember you from years ago..

Hey there Mike, You're the one who used to have "The Pizza Man" in his
sig, right? If so, I remember you too :-) (welcome back!)

> So tell me, are you a believer
> in Vista and DX10? What rig do you currently have running?

Not yet - I'm still running crusty ol' Win2k on my main machine :-)
(Which is getting a little old now, the last big upgrade I did was in
response to HL2 :) )

My only encounter with Vista was a friend's machine at the beginning of
this year - spent ages installing it, only to find alot of stuff just
wouldn't run - I think it has a standard popup message of "This program
is not compatible with Windows Vista" for anything its unsure of.

I know this will change over time, but as is usual for me, i'll probably
wait a couple of years before I buy anything with Vista installed ;)

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Justin Thompson - 11 Aug 2007 16:31 GMT

>Ok, I just got a new rig with Vista and DirectX 10. I don't want a DX10 vid
>card, so I bought a Radeon X1650 Pro to get thru the next six months or so
>(couldn't deal with the onboard GeForce crap).. Question: Should I uninstall
>the DX10 drivers on vista and go to the DX9L ones? TIA!

No - leave DX10 - sounds like I am in your scenario - Moved from XP to
vista with Nvidia 7800 gtx - which is not a DX10 card - it works fine.

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LymanAlpha - 12 Aug 2007 07:21 GMT

> Ok, I just got a new rig with Vista and DirectX 10. I don't want a
> DX10 vid card, so I bought a Radeon X1650 Pro to get thru the next six
> months or so (couldn't deal with the onboard GeForce crap).. Question:
> Should I uninstall the DX10 drivers on vista and go to the DX9L ones?
> TIA!

Even if you had a Direct X 7 compliant video card you still leave Direct
X 10 alone. Direct X is something you had to jump through hoops in
order to retrograde on XP, on Vista I'm almost sure it's impossible. If
you were able to uninstall it, Windows would probably stop working.

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