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Windows 7 Fix

B

Barnstorm

"Molon Labe"
Just an FYI....

After building my new system with Win7-64, neither CFS3 or OFF would run properly. A fellow teacher at the CC where I work turned me on ot this DirectX update for Windows 7 and Vista. It is essentially a backwards compatability fix for DirectX10 and 11. Some of the OS's don't have all the 'old' files to run DirX 9 apps properly. If you have not installed this update yet, you should concider it. Even if you have and don't know it, running it again won't hurt anything.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en
 
Thanks for the heads up

This is definitely a good thing to install, given all the backwards compatibility issues between OS's and programs.

Case in Point : connecting to Multiplayer in CFS3 and it's expansions, requires setting the .exe's to run as XP (SP2)

I'm not sure if this is a performance improver, or a fix, but it is definitely a "functionality improver" overall in the grand scheme of things, depending on what older programs you might be wanting to run on a Windows 7 setup.

I didn't even make a restore point before installing it. What I saw it install was the many updates to DirectX over the years and it seems to me I'd rather have them in and at the ready should I come across an old application that requires some of these items than not have them in place and possibly face system crashes or incompatibilty.

I am a CFS modder of sorts and tinkering with the older utilities comes up alot. So thanks for some good intel!
 
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