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| Is ther a way to get my prgoram to check if DX8+ is installed so the machine might be able to run my game? |
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| Err, Blitz only requires Dx7. And anyway, it'll just tell the user "graphics mode unavailable" or something to that affect. I don't know of any computers running win32 that don't have dx7 but eh. I'm just saying it's very low level and you should just put it in the system requirements. |
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| There's a key in the registry which holds the DirectX version. I believe the location and key is : "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectX", "Version" And it returns a number like 4.8.1 where 8 is the major version and 1 is the minor version. So DX8.0 returns 4.8.0, DX8.1 returns 4.8.1, etc. And yeah, you only need above 7 for major version in order for a Blitz program to work. |
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| I THINK everything from Win98 and up has DX 7 or higher installed as standard (if the first edition of Win98 doesn't have DX6 or something). Yep, just put DirectX7 and into the system requirements, then it shouldn't become a problem. |
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| The sample machine was a bargain bin eMachine... I just wanted to see if it would run on that. |
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| win98 fe and se has dx 6 :P |
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