Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:10:18 11/29/00
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On November 29, 2000 at 11:29:00, Larry Griffiths wrote: >I have 2 verisons of Win2k. I installed CM8000 on my other Win2k partition that >has DirectX7, and have yet to see it hang. The install said that 7.0a could not >be installed. Win2k comes with DirectX verison 7 so I assume the 7.0a is maybe >bug fixes. > >I did have DirectX8 already installed on the Win2k system where CM8000 is >randomly going into a loop. I am wondering if DirectX8 is the problem... > >On November 28, 2000 at 15:06:36, John Merlino wrote: > >> >>That is another important issue. CM8000 comes with DirectX 7.0a, which CANNOT be >>installed on Win2K machines. Therefore, it is, in my opinion, VITAL (although >>not yet fully determined by the development team) that DirectX8 be installed on >>your machine BEFORE installing CM8000. I cannot say what problems might arise >>from not having any version of DirectX installed, but I'm pretty sure that >>having DirectX8 will avoid at least SOME problems. >> >>jm Hmmmm.... This is particularly unfortunate. If the problem is with DirectX 8, then that's a bad thing because DirectX 7 is no longer available on Microsoft's website. Sadly, DirectX8 came out after development was completed, so there couldn't be any testing with it. Hopefully, the development team can come up with something regarding this.... jm
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