windows vista ultimate directx 10

hi
i have installed windows vista on my laptop
but i coudn't play Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
then i went to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en
and downladed it and then i could play games
but then i write dxdiag in run it shows that i have direct x 10
what was the program i installed was itt dx 9 or what cane i remove it plz help me
my vista is 64 bit
works perfekt and one more thing in dxdiag itshow that my grafik cadr has 384 mb
bu in xp it shows 512 what s the problem

 

Vista isn't out yet. And warez is forbidden. It's probably your pirated copy of a beta Vista causing the problems - buy Vista when it is officially released and your problems will be gone.

 

vista i out for enterprise
and i was wondrig what this was
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

i had to instal this in xp to plAY GAMES
and my problem is somthin els its why is it stillwriten dx 10 i have installed this http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
is this dx 9 or just some part of dx 9
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

 

And your enterprise is busy playing Splinter Cell, is it?

Anyway, Vista comes with both DX9 and 10. And both ATI and NVidia have some problems with their Vista drivers. Don't expect to see "proper" working drivers until the "regular" Vista release.

 

when is the release

 

Can't remember. I wouldn't dream of "up"grading to Vista in the next year anyway, but I think I saw January 30 somewhere.

 

Vista should be on retail shelves in about a month (and the full version has been available to MSDN subscribers as well since Nov).

I wouldn't worry too much about the DirectX version (Vista, like Windows, will auto-update as needed), but I would check with ATI and make sure that you have the latest drivers for your card:
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista64/common-vista64.html

 

Wow, there are definitely legal ways to have Vista. Enterprise is out... it is available to MSDN subscribers... beta testers have received it... etc. So I will assume he acquired it legally (as I and many others have) and answer his question.

Vista essentially includes two versions of DirectX -- DirectX 10 and DirectX 9.0L. 9.0L is just 9.0c rewritten to run within the new Vista DirectX 10 framework, and allows existing games and applications that rely on DirectX 9 to run. Just having DirectX 9.0L is enough for some games, but unfortunately many games call on a specific DirectX .dll that gets installed with the quarterly updates. The easiest thing to do is to just allow the games to "install" DirectX when prompted. The installer will check your system, see that you have DirectX 9.0L installed, and just install the .dll that the game requires.

As far as DxDiag showing a different amount of Video RAM than XP did, that is common. Realize that you are using reference drivers for your video card, not ones specifically released by your notebook manufacturer, where they usually set the maximum amount of "hypermemory" available. That said, with one 1 GB of system RAM, I don't think Windows Vista will allow the video driver to take more than 256 MB of system RAM even if you wanted it to. In any case, you have plenty of video memory available.

Hope all that helps.

 

thank you are right
i am not using a specifically released driver
what does this meen
what does ord reference meens
reference drivers =