Re: Problems Win2K / WinXP

["Orbital Mods" <orbitmods@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not possible to install an older version of DirectX automatically,
Microsoft explicitly discourages doing so under any circumstances. You could
manually deinstall 8.1 from Win98 but it involved quite a few registry
manual tweaks and as such you could crash your system beyond remedy. Don't
do it. As far as I know, the only feasible way to reinstall DirectX in XP is
installing the Service Pack 1, that should install a patched version of
DirectX (8.1b ?) and tweak the registry accordingly.

----- Original Message -----
From: "a.boleat" <a.boleat@fnac.net>
To: <orbiter@firedrake.org>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:45 PM
Subject: Problems Win2K / WinXP


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberto d'Ippolito [mailto:rob.dip@libero.it]
> Sent: 09 December 2002 14:30
> To: Orbiter
> Subject: Problems with win2k/XP
>
> Hi!
>
> I had those problems with WinXP, no way to use Orbiter at all for a
> loooong time. Emulating Win95/98 didn't help, I thought it was due to
> one of the XP display driver I had loaded.
> With the new Orbiter version, and maybe some other game soft I
> installed, everything's back to normal. I think it comes from XP using
> a built-in DirectX8. My DXDiag now says it can perfectly use DX7, and
> crashes while testing DX8. Try installing an old version of DirectX.
>
> The ways of XP are somewhat mysterious...
>
> A.B.
>
>
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