

The Install Manager downloads the app quickly and securely via FilePlanet´s high-speed server, so that a trustworthy origin is ensured. Sadly, most people here have no idea of the huge distinction between the two. DirectX 11: Killer driver that helps PC gamers have a blast. As you can see in the following screenshot, the highest level of DirectX support for the driver is 10.1.

But since all the installer does is place a DLL in a location that your game can find, if the game works, there is little cause for concern. To verify the version of DirectX that VMware Tools supported I opened dxdiag (the DirectX Diagnostic Tool) by executing it in the Run dialog, then switched to the 'Display' tab and checked the Direct3D DDI and Feature Levels under 'Drivers'. Without further information, it's to tell what it is. Or the installer didn't register "version x is installed now" properly. If the installer is running multiple times, then it means that the installer for some reason didn't think it had been installed properly. Some go through the trouble of actually running an installer, which is quite superfluous. Some are smart and just include the right DLL file right alongside their executable. The second answer references a registry key which only. How the games deal with distributing the dxrt that they need is up to the game. This is wrong, as Vista supports both DirectX 10 and 11 and Windows 7 supports DirectX 11 and 11.1. What you are installing are DirectX runtimes that, like the VC runtimes and other runtime libs, serve as a kind of interface glue between your program and the underlying DirectX.īecause the dxrt's job is that of the intermediary between your game and the real DirectX, the version that you use is very specific-it's the version that the game was built and linked against. Man, a lot of people here don't know what DirectX is.ĭirectX is an OS component.
