posted 03-16-09 17:07 EST (US)
Hi all. I'm having a bit of trouble. I know I have driver issues, but not being online with my own personal machine, it's a little difficult to diagnose. No auto updates or scans.
My old comp had a 4 year old copy(at least) of xp pro with direct x 9.0c(at least). SH2 was patched to 1.4.1 and worked fine.
I just bought a second hand IBM Thinkcentre with a P4 2.8, a 2002 OEM version of xp home and 'who knows' what motherboard drivers. I installed service pack 2 for xp and the latest drivers for my old graphics card. I installed SH2 and ran it.(ver 1.0) Then I installed patches 1.4 and 1.4.1 back to back.
When I run SH2 it immediately say I'm missing d3dx9_27.dll.
This sounds like a dx file but no such file exists on the SH2 cd's.(???) If it's not a dx driver then what is it part of? Perhaps service pack 3 or 4....etc or perhaps associated with my graphics driver. If it is a dx file, then why isn't it part of dx 9.0c on the SH2 cd?
dxdiag says that I have dx 9.0c installed but I never installed it myself. (unless SH2 installs dx automatically if needed) Most of the files listed show version 5.(something), created in 2005. Shouldn't these be version 9.(something)created at a later date?
This may or may not be unrelated...when my comp boots, it says I can't run the Catayst control centre (software graphics controller) for my Radeon x800 xt because .net framework 2.0 was not found. This is probably something in service pack 3 or later I'm guessing. I'm also guessing my old OS of xp pro had more updates included than I have right now.
Any ideas? I'll have another opportunity in a couple of days to dl whatever else I'm going to need on a friends highspeed connection. The rest of the service packs and the latest dx version are on the top of my list.
What's with the old saying, "Like having your cake and eating it too"? That's easy.
Now, eating your cake and still having it, that's a wee bit harder to do.
My old comp had a 4 year old copy(at least) of xp pro with direct x 9.0c(at least). SH2 was patched to 1.4.1 and worked fine.
I just bought a second hand IBM Thinkcentre with a P4 2.8, a 2002 OEM version of xp home and 'who knows' what motherboard drivers. I installed service pack 2 for xp and the latest drivers for my old graphics card. I installed SH2 and ran it.(ver 1.0) Then I installed patches 1.4 and 1.4.1 back to back.
When I run SH2 it immediately say I'm missing d3dx9_27.dll.
This sounds like a dx file but no such file exists on the SH2 cd's.(???) If it's not a dx driver then what is it part of? Perhaps service pack 3 or 4....etc or perhaps associated with my graphics driver. If it is a dx file, then why isn't it part of dx 9.0c on the SH2 cd?
dxdiag says that I have dx 9.0c installed but I never installed it myself. (unless SH2 installs dx automatically if needed) Most of the files listed show version 5.(something), created in 2005. Shouldn't these be version 9.(something)created at a later date?
This may or may not be unrelated...when my comp boots, it says I can't run the Catayst control centre (software graphics controller) for my Radeon x800 xt because .net framework 2.0 was not found. This is probably something in service pack 3 or later I'm guessing. I'm also guessing my old OS of xp pro had more updates included than I have right now.
Any ideas? I'll have another opportunity in a couple of days to dl whatever else I'm going to need on a friends highspeed connection. The rest of the service packs and the latest dx version are on the top of my list.
[This message has been edited by Ouly (edited 03-16-2009 @ 05:27 PM).]
