This past weekend, my son installed DirectX 9.0c on his PC only to find that none of his old games would run anymore. Note that he was running DirectX 8.1 before DirectX 9.0c was installed.
There is no way, to my limited knowledge, other than re-imaging his machine, to un-install DirectX 9.0c and to re-install DirectX 8.1. However, of greater concern I need to know:
1) Is it possible that my son installed a preliminary version of DirectX 9.0c, whereas installing the correct version would've resulted in full downward compatibility for all of his old games?
2) If item #1 above is not possible, is there a way to uninstall DirectX 9.0c and to then re-install DirectX 8.1?
3) If the newer games require DirectX 9.0c and it's installed, is there a way to alternate between DirectX 9.0c and DirectX 8.1 so he can play both his old and new games?
Note that I've ordered a the following graphics card for his machine and was wondering if anyone thinks there will be any problems associated with it:
BFG GeForce 6600GT OC 128MB AGP
Note that my son's machine is running Microsoft Windows XP Home with 512K of RAM, with a P4 processor at 1.8 GHz. And yes, it does have an AGP slot...
Any help anyone could give me with the above concerns would be very much appreciated...
srtek
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