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    Acer and DirectX

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Hottysmiff, Jan 11, 2010.

  1. Hottysmiff

    Hottysmiff Newbie

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    Hi all, for any help you have my thanks. I have very recently bought an Acer laptop, and tried to load my old Chamionship Manager 2001 game which i used often on my old laptop. Anyway, the game says that i don't have enough memory to run it on the laptop (definitely not true unless the laptop is lying about its memory)) but I did notice when it was laoding it said it needed DirectX and I should install a service pack (didn't get this with the laptop). Just been looking and it says Windows 7, which I have, has DirectX incorporated into it, is this true? Should I be downnloading DirectX to make my game work? Or can anyone else think of what is going wrong here?
     
    Hottysmiff, Jan 11, 2010
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  2. shakennstirred

    shakennstirred Notebook Evangelist

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    win 7 has dx11 most older games run on dx9
    install dx9 and it should be fine
    thats what i have done in the past with vistas dx10
     
    shakennstirred, Jan 11, 2010
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  3. chriscatt

    chriscatt Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi, try running the game in admin and compatablity mode, this has nothing to do with Acer...
     
    chriscatt, Jan 11, 2010
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    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    DirectX 10 and 11 both include backwards compatibility for DirectX 9 or earlier games out of the box, but may require the latest compatibility update from Microsoft. Feel free to download it.
     
    TehSuigi, Jan 11, 2010
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    shakennstirred Notebook Evangelist

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    they say that
    but some games look for dx9
    and will not run without it installed
    i have a few games like that
    install dx9c and they run fine, installing dx9c doesnt over right dx10/11 so is safe to install
    dx9c even has win7 n vista listed in the System Requirements
     
    shakennstirred, Jan 11, 2010
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    Dython Notebook Geek

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    install directx 9 sdk
     
    Dython, Jan 18, 2010
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