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thenerd
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I made a great 3d anniversary card for my grandparents, only to find when I ran it on the vista computer my dad will bring, it brings up an error saying something along the lines of "dll 'd3d_dx9.dll'
not found!"
my dad doesn't want to download dx (he insists it is why his old computer broke), so is there any way to simply include those dlls without installing it?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 00:50
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No.

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thenerd
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 00:53
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dang.

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zeroSlave
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At this point, I'm pretty sure that the only way to get it to work is to convince your pop that direct x 9 did not mess up his last computer.

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thenerd
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trust me... that will not happen.

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Then my advice is to take his computer and tell him he's not allowed to use it anymore.
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thenerd
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 01:33 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 01:35
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or discuise the installer as a free trial of a surf software that tracks waves accurate up to 2 inches.:0 (my dad surfs)

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Or you could just remind him that there are millions of people around the world that use DirectX 9 without any issues.

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Aertic
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Install DX9's DLL then re-install DX10?
I dunno.

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Roxas
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 03:01 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 03:02
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Install WineD3D wrapper into Windows xD
Seriously just tell your father that Windows is crap anyways and there is chance that anything you install will mess it up so just install the damn DX9.

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Quote: "Seriously just tell your father that Windows is crap anyways and there is chance that anything you install will mess it up so just install the damn DX9."


Roxas do you have to diss windows on any thread that relates to it?
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 06:11 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 06:12
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EDIT:

Nevermind.

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Maybe you could make a video of it instead, not ideal but it would get the job done, maybe even put it on a DVD for them as a keepsake.


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Just make an installer for the app that also copies the d3d9.dll into system32 folder.Use Clickteam Install Creator and make a silent installer so noone can see what the app is installing.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 12:01 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 12:09
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Search your system for d3*.dll and copy everything to his system32.



Hmm... why does my XP system have DX10 DLLs?

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Benjamin
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Quote: "Hmm... why does my XP system have DX10 DLLs?"


Why does it look like Vista?
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 13:05 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 13:06
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WindowBlinds. All the effects are software based. Wish I could get rid of that 2px grey bar to the left of the address combobox, it's quite passively annoying.

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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 13:08 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 13:09
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Quote: "Hmm... why does my XP system have DX10 DLLs?"


DX probably installs them even though they're not usable - easy way to simplify the installation (and allows apps that depend upon them to error and say "DirectX 10 compatible video card required" rather than just dying from missing DLLs)

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Quote: "WindowBlinds. All the effects are software based"


Sounds very efficient.
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 13:13 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 13:17
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That's a good point.

And, yes, it's very, very efficient. It's only blurring titlebars and window borders. That's not much for a background process. It uses hooks to intercept all messages that trigger the drawing of windows and uses its own drawing system that's faster than Microsoft's. The biggest difference is that unresponsive windows don't have the trails any more.

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thenerd
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 14:18 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 14:19
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cool i might get that... for my computer. I am tired of those annoying trails and blank windows. but it is fun to make a window really small and then draw a picture.

Anyway, I just abandoned making it work and just decided to remake it in a DVD software (which, ironically, is on the computer without dx)

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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 14:29 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 14:30
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It only seems to have that effect on some graphics cards... must be some odd acceleration technique. On some systems it leaves a single "print" of the window every time it is released but doesn't blur.

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You could do it using darkbasic classic, which runs on dx7 i think.
If you dont hav it, then you could give me the files and i will see if it works.

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I have dbc and dbpro. I already thought of that, but dbc cannot do the shader effects that are in the app.

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bitJericho
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Try copying d3d_dx9.dll to the folder in which the .exe resides. However, there's probably other dx9 dlls also needed, so you'll need to fine out which ones.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Like I suggested earlier, copy every dll found by searching d3dx9*.dll.

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