Installing SDK on Win2000

If someone''s Win2K machine locked up after installing 8.1 it wasn''t because of Win2K or 8.1.

Why in the world would an MS product not work with another MS product if the product claims compatibility?

Ben


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1. Win2k+DirectX SDK works perfectly on both my home and work machines, plus about 5 other machines all with various configurations in the office win Win2k.

2. A version of DirectX is installed when you install Win2k anyway! - all the SDK contains over the base DirectX install is debug DLLs, headers and libraries and samples programs.

3. Most of the DirectX team at Microsoft apparently use Windows 2000.

Just make sure your using an account with administrator privileges or things could go wrong that way, and that you''re using a bonafide version of DirectX (i.e. downloaded from an MS site or from an offical source, not one of the cut down versions).

Also make sure your drivers are up to date for motherboard and graphics hardware, and that any CPU packs have been installed or you might not get proper acceleration. Plus you should make sure you have Win2k service pack 2 installed - amongst other things it fixes some D3D+AGP issues.

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Simon O''Connor
Creative Asylum Ltd
www.creative-asylum.com

I had (have) problems with the SDK''s installer failing. I just copied the headers, libs, etc to their appropriate locations. It works.

"If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein

the divx codec was messed on my system after i installed dx8sdk. i reinstalled it and it works fine now.