Member Dele Posted August 19, 2011 Member Report Share Posted August 19, 2011 Hey guys, I was recently forced to upgrade to Windows 7 64bit and am trying to get all of my apps up and running (Yeah, it's as fun as it sounds!). Anyway, I installed 3DC 64bit for Windows and when I try to run the DX version it says it can't load because of a missing file "d3dx9_38.dll". I have DX11 installed, but it looks like it's searching for a DX9 file? Do I need to roll back, or is something not right? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted August 19, 2011 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted August 19, 2011 Hey guys, I was recently forced to upgrade to Windows 7 64bit and am trying to get all of my apps up and running (Yeah, it's as fun as it sounds!). Anyway, I installed 3DC 64bit for Windows and when I try to run the DX version it says it can't load because of a missing file "d3dx9_38.dll". I have DX11 installed, but it looks like it's searching for a DX9 file? Do I need to roll back, or is something not right? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dele I wish it was DX 11 as DX is far superior to OpenGL right now...Max uses DX and in 3DC it's like night and day. But yeah...you have to install DX 9 upon the first install of 3DC. Not sure why, but you do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Dele Posted August 19, 2011 Author Member Report Share Posted August 19, 2011 Thank you for the info AbnRanger! Do you know if that will roll back my DX to v9 or will I still have DX11? There is another 3d app I was going to try out that uses DX11. Plus it would be nice to keep it installed for some games. Thanks, Dele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Dele Posted August 19, 2011 Author Member Report Share Posted August 19, 2011 I think I see what's going on. Windows 7 just doesn't have all of the service updates or something? Anyway, found this little app that runs a check and updates any previous versions of DX on the machine. Fixed it right up. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=35 Thanks again for the help! - Dele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted August 19, 2011 Report Share Posted August 19, 2011 Yeah for some reason windows doesn't have those older DX files, nor do the newer DX distributions have the older DX files. Luckily you can install them side by side without overwriting or uninstalling newer versions. I'm sure at some point Andrew will probably add a newer version of DX (with the possibility of using DX9 for older machines). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member preecher Posted March 15, 2015 Member Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 thank you guys I was having same issue I have downloaded over and over thinking it was due to download interrupt or something. thanks 4 the fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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