codeman

Spoken like a true... oh well.... It does matter. When you have games that give you messages saying "DirectX 7.0a must be installed" when you launch them under Win2K and then get no further, it F'ing matters. Quote: Originally posted by EddiE314: Oh my God CycloneFr, you just solved the biggest mystery of the millennium!! Who would have thought that the new version of DX7 would be a little different from the one installed on win2k already? There's no difference anyway between the two, did you ever think that one OS is an NT based and the other was a 9x based? There are differences let me remind you. man, listen, win2k comes right out of the box with DX7 installed, who gives a sh1t if its DX7a or not? Hey, i got a copy of DirectX 9e (6.800.000.000.100.450.000.kiss.my.a$$.000.1a) Want it? Have a Nice Day. [This message has been edited by EddiE314 (edited 03 April 2000).]

Unfortunately, DX7A is required when the game that you are running checks the DX version and requires DX7A specifically as does High Heat Baseball 2001 from 3DO. Quote: Originally posted by CycloneFr: 4.07.00.0700... Now stop saying that Win2K comes w/ DX7A... It comes w/ DX7... And DX7A isn't nessessary if ur Joystick/or/Gamepad works fine...

I have had the problem you mention, but it is with Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001. During the install, I see the error about neeting DirectX 7.0a, but it allows me to install. Unfortunately, it will not load when I try to launch the game after that. I'll try your suggestion with the color depth and see if that affects this game as well.