DirectX 9.0B Officially released

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Quest For Speed

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• Jul 24, 2003

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The official release is now available.

I have installed them and so far no problems with any of my games. I have not ran any benchmarks so I don't know if there is any performance improvement.

DirectX9.0B
or you can use Windows update

 

Last edited: Jul 24, 2003

mirko_3

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there's no changelog or something, is there?
I guess I'll wait till I find an official announcement somewhere... maybe it fixes the problems half-life is supposed to have with AA (yeah right...)

 

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• Jul 24, 2003

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9.0A gave me a few problems, so I'll try 9.0B soon.

Figures though, as I just downloaded 9.0A a few days ago to play the Gunmetal demo

 

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Whats the difference between 9.0a and 9.0b ??

 

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Melhisedek

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Some security updates IIRC. Nothing in means of performance I recon.

 

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It doesn't help with HL2 AA problem (or so I read).

 

mirko_3

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http://download.microsoft.com/downl...33-4c8c98f1aba4/DirectX9-KB819696-x86-ENU.exe

just download the patch, it even updates the directx to 9.0b and can be uninstalled... the only difference (i checked) is a vulnerability fix in directshow...

 

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• Jul 24, 2003

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I don't have a direct x 9 card...i don't really have problems with my current direct x version... yet the link beckons... must resist clicking...

 

WildArmSX

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• Jul 24, 2003

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I don't have one either but i found somethings work better having directx 9 one then a pervious versious. I am going to try it out and see what happens.