Will this blow up my machine? DX9 out.

[FLS]

When I first checked Horn's link it still said public beta, since then it's been updated to the release version.

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Musketeers

[TIGS]

This isn't the public beta version - this IS the final version.

Microsoft DirectX Site

TIGS

[funkedup]

Well if that Directplay issue is for real then I guess it's pretty important to upgrade if you play multiplayer games.

[Skuzzy]

DirectPlay is Microsoft's built-in MS proprietary network code for DirectX.

Very few titles use it, as it is a bloated pig, which requires specific code that will only run on Microsoft servers.

Is Microsoft lieing about the performance gains?  Well, there are many ways to guage performance gains.  All I can tell you is, there are no video performance gains to be had with DX9 over DX8.
In my opinion, the potential problems DX9 could introduce into a computer system do not justify its insallation yet.

[capt. apathy]

I can't afford to try it.

so far every dx upgrade (except 8.0 to 8.1) has cost me at least $125 in hardware and headaches before everything smoothes out.  and usually I cant notice a difference in performance.

I'll wait until a game I play requires it.

[JimBear]

Did it,  noticed no difference. A couple of reboots and some apps stopped working. A couple more reboots and things were taking forever to launch. Then my local profile became corrupted... Went to a previous restore point and it totaly crapped. Even the recovery console was hosed at this point.
Reformatted and all is fine now.    

What  sound does a lemming make going over the cliff?  duuuuu

[Reschke]

All I can say after being the DX beta tests for the last several versions is don't use the automated download installer. Each time it has randomly rebooted my machine for no reason. I have even written it up as a bug report probably 10 times and nothing has been mentioned about it that I know of on the betaplace listing and my bug reports still show as unresolved.

[Saintaw]

You can un-install it,  under WinXP you have a way to save your current settings & go back to it if needed. (It's written plain on the Direcx download page).

I've now had it running for 48 hours, and played Aces High, Opflash & the Vietcong Demo, Ages of Mythology no problems so far. No improvement that I can see either. (I tried it since Ages of Mythology is supposed to have DX9 features). I took the chance because I will need to freshly reinstall everything on my puter soon, you gotta give that to winXp compared to other MS OSs that I had to reinstall every 6 months or so... I've had this XP running for over a year now, no BSD yet