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Government Man · 03-17-2008, 10:18 PM

These days? They were always ridiculously expensive. I remember spending an entire week's allowance as a kid buying a police car. Buying the entire station was something you had to save a lifetime for (at least for an impatient 10-year old).

For Direct X (at least on my Windows 2000 machine), look for a program called "DXDiag.exe" in the Windows System directory--the icon is a blue ball with a cartoon "X" in it. If you have that file, you have Direct X (and running that program will tell you what version you have). If you don't have it, go ahead and install it. The worst that can happen is that one of your programs will demand a different version. I've got a music composing program that insists on having Direct X 8.1, and only 8.1, before it will install. The company (which no longer updates the program) put out a spoof program that will trick the installation program into thinking that the Direct X version is correct.

I suppose you could always make a backup first.

03-17-2008, 10:18 PM	#32
Government Man Evil Minion in Training The legends...they're true! Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: The Government Posts: 131	These days? They were always ridiculously expensive. I remember spending an entire week's allowance as a kid buying a police car. Buying the entire station was something you had to save a lifetime for (at least for an impatient 10-year old). For Direct X (at least on my Windows 2000 machine), look for a program called "DXDiag.exe" in the Windows System directory--the icon is a blue ball with a cartoon "X" in it. If you have that file, you have Direct X (and running that program will tell you what version you have). If you don't have it, go ahead and install it. The worst that can happen is that one of your programs will demand a different version. I've got a music composing program that insists on having Direct X 8.1, and only 8.1, before it will install. The company (which no longer updates the program) put out a spoof program that will trick the installation program into thinking that the Direct X version is correct. I suppose you could always make a backup first. __________________ Last edited by Government Man; 03-17-2008 at 10:20 PM.