Direct X 9.26.1590

Just a heads up, seems there is an update for Direct X.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/resultsForCategory.aspx?displaylang=en&categoryid=2

It's the March 2009 update to DirectX as a whole. They release them every few months, but never change the version number from 9.0c, so people think they have the latest version when they don't.

They really should change the damn version number to stop confusion, idiots heh.

I just wish they would include it in with the standard windows update, heck they put everything else in there.

Yeah, seeing as Direct-X is such a big platform now they really should be including it in Windows update; it's probably the leading cause of problems end users have with Construct, and although easily remedied, it shouldn't exist.

Drivers, too. Old video card drivers cause things to glitch up due to driver bugs. I think Vista/7 are better at telling you about new drivers, but I don't think they auto-update DirectX. Another big pain is the C++ library DLLs. Since they have to be manually installed by the user, working out how to distribute Construct-made EXEs without installers and keeping a small filesize has been a massive pain.

It's the March 2009 update to DirectX as a whole. They release them every few months, but never change the version number from 9.0c, so people think they have the latest version when they don't.

Does it make sense why they normally don't change the 9.0c-part?

Perhaps they have added a feature that was big enough to enhance the version numbering?

I don't know their reasoning, but it makes things rather overcomplicated. It'd be far easier to just incriment the letter after 9.0, even if the builds aren't major.

I think 9.0c refers to the core engine. The things they keep updating are now external libraries not technically part of the core engine. It's still a massive pain though.

Microsoft aren't bad people... they are just massive idiots.

~Sol

"DirectX 9.0c will help improve multimedia experiences on most PCs. This latest version of DirectX offers better security, updated graphics, faster frame rates, and support for massively multiplayer games."

support for mm-games ? Does anyone know what this support means? And wasn't this support included in previous versions of directx?

DirectX 9.0c is pretty old now, it was probably a buzzword thing when really they meant Directplay, which is deprecated now.

Microsoft is deprecated.

your mom's deprecated