DirectX Question

[hombre]

Can DirectX 8 be uninstalled and then reinstalled?

I don't know if that would even help, but I'm having a problem with a couple of things.
When I try to run 3DMark 2001 I get an error saying "3DMark2001 requires a DirectX 8 compatible 3D accelerator."
And then when I tried a screen saver from Microsoft, I got "Could not find any compatible Direct3D devices."
Everything else works fine except those two.

Does anyone know how to fix this? :confused:

I ran DXDiag and attached the results.

Thanks!


components:
Windows XP
Abit KR7A
XP1800
512MB PC2700
IBM 60GXP 60GB
Gainward GF3 Ti200 Golden Sample (230/530) (nVidia 23.11)
SB Live!
(and the basic other junk)

[WyrmMaster]

no, you cant officially uninstall it, there is a program that will do it, but i havent tried it. What i woud do is reinstall video drivers and DX.

[-Exi|e-]

Try Directx Buster (http://www.directxbuster.de/index_e.html) and then reinstall it. I guess this is "Do at your own risk"

[Silver]

This has happened to me a couple of times while pushing the fsb real hard. A reinstall of direct x should cure it.

[hombre]

Thanks guys, I'll try to do that. :)

[Lorddraco98]

Originally posted by -Exi|e-
Try Directx Buster (http://www.directxbuster.de/index_e.html) and then reinstall it. I guess this is "Do at your own risk"
Yeah, I've seen many bad things come froma DirectX uninstall with that program, but it's really one of the only programs that does it. A reinstall might fix it. Let us know if you need more help :)

[o770]

i cant remember the name of the program i tried once to remove the directx but im sure it was this in the question. i got the link for it in the geforcefaq and tried all the process just like it was recommended to be done but got no sucess in the end. i was trying to remove the directx 8 and install the 7. its not a complicated process but its highly unsafe.

[hombre]

Hi all,

Well the DXBuster said it wasn't compatible with Windows XP, so I didn't install it.
I did try reinstalling 8.1 again, but it doesn't look like it helped any.
There has only been the 2 programs that had any problems, so I guess I'll just let it ride until some bigger problem comes along. I downloaded 3DMark2000 v1.1 and it works fine, so now I can see what my scores are, and that was the big hang-up that I had about DX8 not working right.
Not to say that I don't want to correct this, but my past history has shown that I tend to reformat more often then average, which is not necessarily by choice, so chances are I'll be correcting the problem at that time. :D
I am trying to get out of that pattern though, so if you do have some more ideas, I would appreciate the help.

Thanks again!