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by mike.sleigh

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I somewhat foolishly loaded Directx 9 to take advantage of some features aboard a new graphics card I installed. My PC has become unstable in a number of areas.

What do I do?

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by thechas

We need more details.
What version of Windows?
What video card?
What motherboard and CPU?
Specific errors?

For an update like DirectX 9, I recommend the following procedure:

VERIFY that your video card manufacture supports using DirectX 9!!!
If there is no information on DirectX 9, make sure that the driver at least supports DirectX 8.
Many older cards will not have updated drivers, and you can expect problems with a newer version of DirectX.

Install the latest AGP mini-port driver for the chipset on the motherboard.
Install DirectX
Install the latest driver from the Video card mfg.

Chas

by wcp

DirectX cannot be uninstalled.
You need to weigh the time it takes to fix the problem with DirectX 9 and time it takes to start from scratch and stay with DirectX 8.1. or what you have before.

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