"Dave Quail" <davequail********.com> wrote in message
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> "Fassin Taak" <FassinTaak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>>I recently up-graded to Vista Home Premium. I want to download FEAR &
>> Extraction Point. A box appears telling me that it is going to download
>> DirectX 9. If I click OK, will this affect Vista/DirectX 10? Is it going
>> to
>> clash with DirectX 10? I am asking the community because I haven't found
>> someone who can answer this.

> There is no problem loading DirectX 9...it will co-exist with DirectX10.

DirectX 9 actually contains DirectX 8, 7, 5, 3, 2, and 1 as well. DirectX 10
is the first DirectX to not install all the previous DirectX versions. (No,
there is no DirectX 4, but not sure about 6, can't recall).