Good point, if one has multiple machines, this makes a lot of sense. These are just excuses I have provided myself to use a different OS, while likely keeping problems to a minimum for the games designed around a specific DirectX version. It depends on what you are attempting to accomplish, retro-wise. Meatball wrote on, 19:15: It depends on what you are attempting to accomplish, retro-wise. Though issues are more likely to stem from too new a graphics card and/or driver version than the DirectX version installed as DirectX is generally pretty good with backward compatibility Reply 2 of 33, by Meatball If the game you want to run requires a specific DirectX version as a minimum, it won't work with an earlier versionĭ) Potentially backward compatibility issues that a given games/applications may have with too new a DirectX version. The DirectX version you will want to have installed will depend onī) The graphics card and drivers you are using and their dependency (or lack thereof) of a minimum DirectX versionĬ) Most importantly, the requirements of the games/applications you want to run. IMHO, there is no 'best' version of DirectX for Windows 98 or for Windows ME. I was thinking maybe dx8? (but which one?) Derpmochump wrote on, 18:51: HI, welcome.

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