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    3Dmark06 and Vista Home Premium

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by btgman, Apr 2, 2008.

  1. btgman

    btgman Notebook Consultant

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    Anyone had trouble installing 3DMark on Vista? I tried to install 06 and when it asked me if I wanted to insatll DX9 at the end I declined - I already have DX10, obviously. But when I tried to run it couldn;t start because DX9 was missing. Any ones had this problem?

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    I did the same thing with the same results. I uninstalled and installed with DirectX 9, and it worked fine.
     
    Mysterio, Apr 2, 2008
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    So now you have DX9 and 10 installed?
     
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    It won't replace your DirectX 10 install; my system still shows that I have DirectX10 installed. I believe there are files in DirectX 9 that 3DMark06 needs to run.
     
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    OK. Thanks for the info.
     
    btgman, Apr 2, 2008
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