Roxio Community: Vista, EMC10 and DX9 - Roxio Community

Jump to content

Roxio Community
Page 1 of 1
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

Vista, EMC10 and DX9 quick question

#1 User is offline   Everydisplaynameistaken 

  • Rookie
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 21
  • Joined: 21-September 07

Posted 21 September 2007 - 05:35 AM

I just read that EMC10 installs DX9 under Vista. Is this true? If so, why is that necessary? Could it not have simply used the DirectX 10 included in Vista?
0

#2 User is offline   gi7omy 

  • Digital Guru
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Digital Guru
  • Posts: 16,915
  • Joined: 10-February 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Belfast, Ireland

Posted 21 September 2007 - 05:44 AM

I don't think it does - actually I don't think Vista will allow it

Apart from that, we do tell people to make sure they update to the latest DirectX for their machine manually, along with checking for the latest video drivers from the card makers
If it ain't broke, fiddle with it until it breaks, then fiddle with it until you get it fixed

"Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages and just scream in another forty-four "

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee; that will do them in."

“Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns.” — Mitch Ratcliffe


Daithi

Home Brew computer
Intel I7 950 on Gigabyte X58A UD3R mobo
12 GB Three Channel DDRAM
Radeon HD4850 512 MB GDR3 graphics
Signalink USB Audio Codec for ham radio connection
1 x 160 GB, 1 x 330 GB, 1 x 400 GB IDE drives
4 x 250 GB SATA 2
LG HL-DT-ST GGW-H20L BD-RE drive
22" Acer P223W monitor


EMC 7.5 on Windows XP 32 SP3
EMC10 on Windows XP64 SP2
Creator 2011 on Windows 7 Ultimate
ECD6 on Gentoo Linux (running under VMWare)
0

#3 User is offline   Everydisplaynameistaken 

  • Rookie
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 21
  • Joined: 21-September 07

Posted 21 September 2007 - 05:55 AM

Hello thank you for your quick reply!

My apologies - I should have given the link I read this at..
http://kb.roxio.com/content/kb/MyDVD/000162CR

The new EMC10 looks great and I want to try it out, however this gives me pause. I don't want to install an older version of DirectX on my machine?
0

#4 User is offline   gi7omy 

  • Digital Guru
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Digital Guru
  • Posts: 16,915
  • Joined: 10-February 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Belfast, Ireland

Posted 21 September 2007 - 06:08 AM

Actually the DirectX 9 is not so much an older version as a different version - as I said, it probably won't install on a Vista machine. Even if it does, it should install in parallel with DX10 and won't overwrite it.

However, even tho Direct X 10 may have been installed with your Vista, it's always as well to check for newer releases from MS anyway - they tend to update it every couple of months

I've never actually heard (yet) of anyone having DirectX problems on any OS unless their copy is way out of date
If it ain't broke, fiddle with it until it breaks, then fiddle with it until you get it fixed

"Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages and just scream in another forty-four "

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee; that will do them in."

“Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns.” — Mitch Ratcliffe


Daithi

Home Brew computer
Intel I7 950 on Gigabyte X58A UD3R mobo
12 GB Three Channel DDRAM
Radeon HD4850 512 MB GDR3 graphics
Signalink USB Audio Codec for ham radio connection
1 x 160 GB, 1 x 330 GB, 1 x 400 GB IDE drives
4 x 250 GB SATA 2
LG HL-DT-ST GGW-H20L BD-RE drive
22" Acer P223W monitor


EMC 7.5 on Windows XP 32 SP3
EMC10 on Windows XP64 SP2
Creator 2011 on Windows 7 Ultimate
ECD6 on Gentoo Linux (running under VMWare)
0

#5 User is offline   Everydisplaynameistaken 

  • Rookie
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 21
  • Joined: 21-September 07

Posted 21 September 2007 - 09:33 AM

ok thank you smile.gif
0

#6 User is offline   gi7omy 

  • Digital Guru
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Digital Guru
  • Posts: 16,915
  • Joined: 10-February 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Belfast, Ireland

Posted 22 September 2007 - 05:26 PM

Just as a follow-up on that - I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate and then installed DirectX 10 before I did anything else - there were quite a few DirectX 9 files went in along with SDK 'updates' dating back to April 2006 - and that was the installation from Microsoft laugh.gif

So - nothing to worry about with the EMC 10 installation - MS put some DX 9 components in already wink.gif
If it ain't broke, fiddle with it until it breaks, then fiddle with it until you get it fixed

"Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages and just scream in another forty-four "

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee; that will do them in."

“Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns.” — Mitch Ratcliffe


Daithi

Home Brew computer
Intel I7 950 on Gigabyte X58A UD3R mobo
12 GB Three Channel DDRAM
Radeon HD4850 512 MB GDR3 graphics
Signalink USB Audio Codec for ham radio connection
1 x 160 GB, 1 x 330 GB, 1 x 400 GB IDE drives
4 x 250 GB SATA 2
LG HL-DT-ST GGW-H20L BD-RE drive
22" Acer P223W monitor


EMC 7.5 on Windows XP 32 SP3
EMC10 on Windows XP64 SP2
Creator 2011 on Windows 7 Ultimate
ECD6 on Gentoo Linux (running under VMWare)
0

Share this topic:


Page 1 of 1
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

1 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users