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Article #19Re: Install DirectX 6.0 or 6.1? Suggestions
From: Arne Schaepers
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:00
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Depends.The most important things MS fixed/added in 6.1 are: - DirectMusic (entirely new) - DirectPlay. Asynchronous messages are defined from 6.0 on but really work with 6.1 only. Arne Rich Niemaszyk schrieb in Nachricht <36E18B8C.8D8F4BE0@interaccess.com>... >Need to install DirectX 6.0 or 6.1. >I am leaning to try 6.0 first. If games (half-life, Sin, etc) don't run >right, I figure I can go to 6.1. Heard its tougher going from 6.1 back >to 6.0 >If things are fine, stay with 6.0. >Looking for positive suggestions or others' experiences. >Currently using DirectX 5.0 and everything runs fine. I am using Win95b >(2.1) > >Before installing 6.0, I plan to upgrade the velocity drivers (1.52?) >and the voodoo2 drivers to diamond's 207. >Will use reference drivers as a last resort. > >System: >P-II266, DMI motherboard (P2XLX),128ram, velocity 4400 agp (1.44 >drivers), voodoo2 (diamond 203 drivers), AWE64, mitsubishi 87txm >monitor. > >Current games run great, quake2, unreal, Need4Speed3, no problems. >Hope it stays that way with 6.0 or 6.1! >Thanks >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,f3fc889daed7d2bc X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: feaeb,f3fc889daed7d2bc X-Google-Attributes: gidfeaeb,public X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,f3fc889daed7d2bc X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: 107fd6,f3fc889daed7d2bc X-Google-Attributes: gid107fd6,public X-Google-Thread: 10b507,f3fc889daed7d2bc X-Google-Attributes: gid10b507,public X-Google-Thread: 105253,f3fc889daed7d2bc X-Google-Attributes: gid105253,public From: "Arne Schaepers" <a.schaepers@digitalpublishing.de> Subject: Re: Install DirectX 6.0 or 6.1? Suggestions Date: 1999/03/10 Message-ID: <7c6tta$jbn$1@goof.de.uu.net> X-Deja-AN: 453577281 References: <36E18B8C.8D8F4BE0@interaccess.com> X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: Customer of UUNET Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Newsgroups: microsoft.public.directx,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,3dfx.products.voodoo2,3dfx.d3d.drivers.diamond,alt.games.half-life