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I have a Velocity 4400 and a PIII ( ;-) ) and I installed DirectX 6.1 as it
can use the new PIII Streaming SIMD instructions. Incoming and NFSIII run
great but FIFA 99 works until you start a game then it hangs...I presume this
is a DirectX thing.

- Andrew


In article <36E29C55.E4D6E88E@home.com>,
  KCB <kcbaird@home.com> wrote:
> Don't you have an uninstall available through Control Panel/Add-Remove
> Programs?  I have DirectX listed there.
>
> Pam Jordan wrote:
> >
> > Go for DX 6.0... after installing 6.1, I'm unable to run FF7 or Theme
> > Hospital in hi-res mode.  Very annoying... speaking o' which, anyone know of
> > a way to completely erradicate DX6.1 and get back 6.0?  (what kind of
> > crapo-o company doesn't include an uninstall?  ANY other company would hear
> > about it, but MS? nooo, of course not...)
> >
> > Rich Niemaszyk wrote:
> >
> > > 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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