You can play any game you want. Don't worry about the Direct X 9.0b or c. There is not much difference.

Play all you want. Don't worry.

the point is my games are reading it as DirectX9.0b. It says i need to install DirectX9.0c..Anyway to make it detect my 90.c or perhaps installing manually?

Oh, I see, try formating and re-installing Windows XP Pro then DirectX 9.0c?

That's if you can't play your games.

Hi guys its so funny i cant believe this discussion is active for more then 2 years already, it just shows how fu**ed up MS is...
well i dont have an nvidia card, but an ati one- radeon9500pro and im using WinXp with no ServicePacks.
recently ive installed the new MOH: Pacific assault and ive been forced to install the new DX, 9.c
when i run the game my windows restarts immediately. ive tried to uninstall and reinstall several versions of the ati catalist video drivers, including the latest- 4.11 but it doesnt help.
ive noticed the new dx also caused several other games who worked great with 9.b to crash and not work too! (such as roller coaster tycoon 3).
now im stuck with this stinkey dx and cant play nba2005,mohpa,NFSU2,RCT3 and so on

my specs:
AMD XP 2000+
Epox 8RDA+ with nf2
ATI Radeon9500pro
512Mb of ddr333 RAM

That's weird. Direct X 9c works better with my system than Direct X 9b. What you need to try out is the ATI Radeon DNA Drivers. They are hacked/performance/quality drivers for any and all Radeon cards.

Here is the link

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=24

Good Luck.

Hello

I have had probelms running the latest Medal of honour; pacific.
And onflict vietnam.
With Medal of Honour i click on play and it comes up with a grey box saying my video card does not support Direct X 8.1 (it comes with 9c). It lists a number of cards that it has been tested and works with and the Geforce 4 is among them, which i have installed. With Conflict vietnam it goes blac and tells me there was a error and to send it to microsoft.
I have upgraded the geforce 4 drivers to their latest and have made sure that i have direct X and i have 9c and dxdiag says it is all working properly as does the video card. I need answers soon as this is an Xmas present for someone else and i cant afford to replace it!! I dont want to give them game that doesnt run!!!! Ive got as follows

OS: Windows XP Home service pack 2.
Processer: Intel 4 CPU 2.53GHZ
Hardrive: 80GB 50% free
Ram: 512MB
Video Card: Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440
Sound Card: Sigma Tel Audio
Direct X: 9.0c

Help me!

I have problems with my config too.
System freezes after 2-10s in 3D Mark 2001SE etc.

AMD AthlonXP 2000+
VIA KT266B (latest drivers)
Inno3D GeForce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Windows XP SP2 EN

I have tried lots of drivers recommended in this discussion,
disabling FastWrite and downclocking. I have even tried
to flash VGA BIOS. But nothing helped Any other ideas?

Hi

i pretty much need to get a better graphics card as i want to run half life 2, that says it needs a direct x 9 graphics card, and being cheap as i am, i wanted to get something for under £50, (about $90 if your in the us), and after reading about, i thought i was going to get a nice geforce ti 4600, untill i read this long long long topic, and now i have major second thoughts

... my current pc specs are

Amd Athlon 1400 Ghz cpu
384 Ram
Via K133 Mainboard i think (with agp for 2x/4x support)
and some crappy graphics card

so does anyone know if the ti 4600 works with half life 2/direct x 9, or if there is a better choice for me out there with my small budget ?

thanks for your help

J.

I wouldn't touch GeForce 4. I don't think D9 is fully supported, and Half-Life 2 works with all Direct X series, but the D9 is the best for performance & quality.

I found that the problem lies in the sp1 becauses i have a ati radon 9200pro 128m video card and i have service pack one instaled battlefield dosen't work were befored i put the service pack on it worked fine

Same Problem here, but this is with SP-2. WarCraft does not play with SP-2. But it plays amazing with Windows XP 64-Bit Edition. Dual Booting is amazing.

Hi iv read threw most of these form (not all of it 2 long lol) and i seem 2 be having the same problem but mine is differnt

2500+ amd prosseser
256 ddr ram
win xp

but the differnt thing is i have gforce 4mx440 onboard and it has the same problem !!!!
at first i thort it was fulty so i took it back and got another mother board but it still black screened and crashed when i started games...
also when im in windows it sometimes puts randem lines across the screen (direct draw???)
iv changed every thing power supply ,hdd,cd,games,ram, nothing seems to work wich is strange because its a prebuilt system prity muhc.

and the via driver dnt help me because its onboard so theres no agp bridge

also i resently bout a gforce fx for my other computer & when i try it in the agp slot (i dont no y therez a agp slot on it when it has gforce mx440 onboard) it gose awsome no glitches AT ALL.

so the only solition seems 2 ditch the onboard mx440 and go bye a new gforce fx or something tht i really cant afored and dont wont 2 do.

help would be real gr8 & i will post more info on my system if needed thx

First, try turning the onbaord graphics off. Then put in the geforce fx & see how it is.

Next, never buy onboard graphics again.
They are the worst for games & performance. Onboard Graphics is only good when you need a PC at the office or something.

i dnt think u read mi problem properly ..

i said it has no problm when i put the fx in there.

the problemm is i need the onboard geforce 2 go (kinda the resone i bout the computer so i WOULDNT NEED 2 upgrade)

ne reply would b grate thx ...

You want to take out the onboard graphics?
Is that what you are saying?

um.... no i want 2 use the onboard mx 440

when i use it is when i have tha problem n mi games dont start and i hav randem lines etc
thtz wat i wnt 2 fix

Can you turn it off?

This is getting way out of hand...

I think the problem is DirectX 9

Myself have G4 440MX-SE 128MB... P3 933Mhz... WinXP with crits updates but no SP

all this while my system and directx was ok... then came Thief which installs DirectX 9.0 to my system... when i want to play it restarts my PC... WTF... so i check the net and found out that my card does not support pixel shading which thief 3 requires... so that was that... i thought it was the card not supporting the game thus the restart...

but soon i find that lots of latest games fail to run too... !! including Half Life 2 which i am Sure can run...
uuurghh... Is there a solution yet? i believe we need a way to revert to Direct X 8.... anyone know a good program for doing that??

The G4 440MX don't have DX 9 support, but this could not be the problem, because I have a laptop with a 8MB Rage 3-D Pro graphic's card with DX 9 installed with no problems at all.

nah gforce mx440 cn hav direct x 9 i no cos my m8 has it with dx9 and it workz fine

this ust be the 3rd time iv said I WANA USE THE ONBOARD GRAFIX NOT TURN IT OFF

ok thx