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John,

    I have the same system as you, (w/DirectX 7), and get a "old version of
DirectX  detected" message when the Matrox troubleshooter starts.
Everything runs fine, though.  Go figure, huh?

Mike

<john_black@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Hey guys, I have a circa 1997 computer, Dell Dimension M (for MMX) 200,
> running Win 95, with a Matrox Millennium, Creative AWE 32, Diamond
> Monster 3D, 64 MB SDRAM.  I heard from several sources that if you have
> older hardware, you should shy away from DirectX 7, because your older
> hardware may not be compatible.  Alas, I already had installed DirectX 7
> by this point, but everything seems to be working fine.  There is one
> minor thing I would like to note, Previously, the Matrox Control Panel
> for my 2D video card reports the version of DirectX you are using, and
> before I installed DX7, it correctly said Version 6.1 (or 6.3 or
> whatever)  Now, it says Version Unknown.  But everything is working
> fine, so I was wondering what you guys think.  Should I go back to
> DirectX 6.x, or stick with 7.0?  And yes, I am using the most up to date
> drivers for all my hardware.  Thanks.
>
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