Re Direct X 8.2

First the good news! It doesn't mess up your system.The neutral news: it doesn't seem to do much to frame rates, but there seems to have been a buffer included, so I now never go above 57FPS on any route (61 before), but the average seems a lot better, i.e. it remains stable in the 40s to 50s for most of the time, without the wild fluctuations I was getting before.The bad news: It has done nothing to improve the sound on audigy 8500, and the graphics don't look any better. It doesn't stop stuttering. Is it worth installing? Overall, probably not. Better to wait for version 9BTW, this is the first microsoft download that came as just a set of zip files, that I have ever seen before. And it took me ages to find a way to install it. (ie find the exe file).David

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Thanks for the heads up on this. I was thinking of getting it but wasn't sure till I started reading some info from people who have tried it.
Rich...

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I was also weary about trying this. But since no dramatic improvement was seen, guess i'll wait for DX 9.0

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You do realize that 8.2 is only designed to correct Direct Play issues (mostly connectivity related) with certain online games, and is not recommended for general use?
From MS technet subscription notes..
"This download contains DirectX 8.1b plus some DirectPlay fixes related to performance and connectivity issues exhibited with some online multiplayer game titles. This release of DirectX is not recommended for general installation. You should only consider installing this release if you have an online gaming problem that has been identified as being fixed with DirectX 8.2. This version of DirectX can replace all previous released versions of DirectX" Cheers
HAC

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There's one problem with this MS statement! DirectX 8.2 came and installed with Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 3.0. So if you have this, you get 8.2 whether you need it or not.

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Thats funny David, I downloaded a copy from MS and it came as an .exe file, just their usual click and install (dplay82 update.exe) - I found that one by doing a search for DirectX 8.2 on microsoft.com.

Mike

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Yeah,I got the .exe too,but the icon is a zip icon which means you can actually unzip it just like a normal zipped file.In my case,after running the "dxsetup.exe",it asked to reboot and I did so,after that I tried MSTS and don't see any improvements.So I reran "dxsetup.exe" again and this time it came up with,"DirectX has been installed succesfuly" or something like that.It didn't ask to be rebooted but I reboot anyway.Then go into MSTS and if I'm not mistaken,I 'think' there's a very teeny improvement in smoothness,but I'm not too sure.I'll play a bit more and see if it really is.

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Installed this last night using part of the Newark & Jersey City route as a benchmark. Before Direct X 8.2 I was getting 4 to 5 FPS on my test section, after installing 8.2 I got identical framerates at the same point. My machine is a P600E 256MB RAM with a GeForce2 DDR 32MB graphics card. The bottleneck on my system must be the processor as I get the same framerates whether I run in 800x600 or 1024x768 mode. I think it's time for a new machine, but as I've only had this one 2 years I can't really justify it yet. MSTS is the only software I've got that I have any real framerate problems with, so I'll have to live with it for another year or so I guess

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Mine too but when I click on it I get "not Win32 Application"
I tried dos but get "not enough memory.."
Can anyone help????Please....
Georges from London.

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To be honost, I wouldn't bother with it. As I said before it doesn't increase frame rates to any great extent, so I would wait for version 9 to appear.David

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David, I guess I'm one of the few, but have a very marginal machine and it has made a 'huge' difference for some reason. I am averaging close to 5fps more than I was and it is much smoother. I have the feeling whatever is there may have a much larger effect the slower the machine is. Otherwise I have no explanation since I have done nothing else different. Just my observation

RobertR .. ADF-M&RM at http://www.adfrr.com

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>I tried dos but get "not enough memory.."That means you have to get more RAM or reboot to free up system resources.
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