derelict360 <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in
news:9ca7bd3ad0ed1f96ebc22c2d11b47750@nntp-gateway.com:
>
> I was informed by the developers over at Flagship Studios that I may
> have a corrupt install of DX10 on my system. I went to reinstall DX10
> but it tells me that I have the most up to date version and aborts the
> install.
>
> Does anyone know a way I can reinstall DX10?
Actually, this is the response that Tech Support gives when they don't
know the answer to your inquiry.
I used to work in Cust Support for EA, Back in the EARLY days of
DirectX, we used to get tons of people calling saying, "well Gateway
said that DirectX was the problem and it didn't work", when basically
DirectX is either installed, or it's not installed. There really is no,
"working or not working", It was usually the video drivers or crappy
hardware that had no chance of running a 3D game.
Ah, good times. I miss my Voodoo2's
To answer the question that has been answered, you can't mess up DirectX
10, there's really no way to uninstall it unless you've been deleting
files from c:\windows\system32, and most people I talk to don't do that.
If you did, then Vista should stop working because Aero uses DirectX as
I understand it. /shrug Probably wrong.
http://www.microsoft.com/directx
This link has been around for nearly a decade now, it should eventually
take you to an application called "dxwebsetup.exe"
Running this application on your system installs and checks all versions
of DirectX for Vista or Windows XP/2K, and if it says, "all directx OK",
then it's all OK.
There's really no way to "corrupt" directX unless your Hard drive is
failing and causing files to be corrupted, but that's unusual because
even failing hard drives won't change files unless they are being
written, and the only time you should write or modify DirectX files is
when installing Vista or running DXWebSetup.
So, long story short. I have no idea what's going on. Update drivers,
post system specs, call it a day.
HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE! (OK, I spilled a cup of coffee in my lap, i'm
pissy, sorry.)
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-A.