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Re: Problems Win2K / WinXP



Just to say that I am not experiencing any problems with Windows 2000 
and DirectX 8.1.

Andrea

Orbital Mods wrote:

> 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.



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