The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    cant find directx settings in vista

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by sunjhoon, Feb 28, 2007.

  1. sunjhoon

    sunjhoon Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    52
    Messages:
    338
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    i installed directx9 in vista and in xp you normally go to the control panel and check the directX settings there i cant seem to find it there...anyone know where it is? :confused:

    EDIT more in particular i wanna get to the direct sound part...i can get the diagnostic tool but not the actual settings part
     
    sunjhoon, Feb 28, 2007
    #1
  2. ttupa

    ttupa Tech Elitist NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    136
    Messages:
    1,150
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    So you go to the run dialog box and type in: dxdiag, but you can't change the settings?

    Is there a folder that DirectX installed to that you could find the settings tool in?
     
    ttupa, Feb 28, 2007
    #2
  3. sunjhoon

    sunjhoon Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    52
    Messages:
    338
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    i found the directx folder within the windows folder but its empty
     
    sunjhoon, Feb 28, 2007
    #3