WinXP and DirectX 9c killed me

[john john mackey]

I am almost at wits end here! This past summer (July roughly), I performed a few upgrades to my WinXP machine: Windows Service Pack 2 (mailed off for CD) DirectX 9c Media Player 11 and purchased Pinnacle Studio Ultimate (ver11...) Anyways, some combination of these three has totally dicked up my system where that playing DVDs is literally impossible, several of my apps (related to graphics) are forever hosed. I lost my ATI TV tuner (USB edition) - granted this is pretty old (2001/2002), but I really liked its simple ability to watch/capture TV on the PC. Nero (Nero Showtime) can't playback DVDs - I have to completely turn off the hardware accelerators and still iffy. Media Player 11 cannot play DVDs My question is... is there a location for previous version of Direct X? I think it is F!-bogus that a lot of updates/upgrades basically forces the consumer into buying a new system while the fat cats (MS) just keep making blood money :mad: John John

[Hesbon Ongira]

I suggest you upgrade the RAM on your PC to 2GB if possible. Video and graphics hog on resources.

--------------------------- Both optimists and pessimists are important in technology. The optimist invented the aeroplane; the pessimist invented the parachute. Regards, Hesbon Ongira Nairobi, Kenya.

[Jerry Hammond]

John, I've done all you've done and I'm not experiencing any issues. I did run into a similar problem a number of years ago--thought it was DX9--it turned out my sound card driver was in need of updating after an update to DX9. Jerry

“If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.”-Alfred P. Sloan

[john john mackey]

I am still having problems with DVD playback. I recently purchased a newer TV tuner unit, ATI's USB Wonder 600. That works ok, but it could be better - lags in recording's preview, had to uninstall/reinstall a few times. But ok for my needs. However, the DVD playback still sucks! I downloading a firmware update for my Sony DVD drive and will try this (although I'm a little hesitant that it may "break" everything and either have to reinstall all or be totally sunk!) It all seems like a conspiracy that updates are not really backwards compatable and basically force one into getting a new machine every 3-4 years. Sorry if that sounds all old person-like, but I am not liking that one bit. Johnny