Windows Insider preview builds deliver early access to new features but often at the cost of stability. The recent emergence of DirectX 9 application crashes on build 27808, as chronicled by user reports and confirmed by Microsoft, offers a revealing look at the trade-offs enthusiasts face on...
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Recent weeks have placed Nvidia in a challenging spotlight, highlighting an array of technical issues that have rattled both casual users and enthusiasts within the PC community. The problems range from hardware concerns—like overheating and burning connectors—to intricate software bugs...
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Windows 11 Apps Crashing? NVIDIA and DirectX 9 Issue Confirmed by Microsoft
It seems that early adopters of the latest Windows 11 Canary builds have hit a rough patch. Microsoft has confirmed that a bug in the recent Canary update is causing crashes in applications that rely on DirectX 9 (D3D9)...
Windows 11’s latest development builds have thrown a wrench in the works for many Nvidia-equipped devices. Early adopters in the Windows Insider Canary Channel have reported that conflicts between DirectX 9—specifically the D3D9 DLL files—and Nvidia GPUs are causing chaos for everything from...
Windows 11 is once again in the spotlight—but not for the usual security features or sleek performance upgrades. Instead, a newly discovered bug is causing headaches for Windows Insiders on the Canary channel who use Nvidia GPUs. The issue, which revolves around incompatibilities with DirectX 9...
Windows Insider Build 27808 is making waves—and not for the right reasons. If you're an avid Windows Insider, especially in the Canary channel, you may have encountered a maddening issue where DirectX 9 applications crash unexpectedly. This problem, traced to the d3d9.dll file, is causing older...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Canary build update has stirred up a technical conundrum that’s capturing the attention of Insiders and tech enthusiasts alike. A direct confrontational twist involving the DirectX 9 component—specifically the d3d9.dll—is causing multiple applications to fail to...
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Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17017 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring and for those who opted in to Skip Ahead.
Going forward, we plan to release new builds for RS4 from the RS_PRERELEASE branch to Insiders in the Fast ring and those...
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I have a HP Pavilion dv6-6121se Link Removed i recently upgraded to windows 8 pro and my games got slower and in game options i could only select directx 9 until later i got battlefield 4 and it says gpu cant buffer frame and it said gpu was intel hd 3000 i checked system info and saw it...
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Fixes an issue in which you cannot start Windows Movie Maker 2012 on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs when a graphics card that only supports DirectX 9 is installed on the computer.
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Okay I am confused here...Most all of my games run like crap with windows 7.. My old comp was a p4 2.0, 768 megs of ram, and a geforce 6200, and my older games ran fine with XP. Now im on a dual core 2.6, 3 gigs, and a geforce 8600 and the games run like crap, even on the lowest settings.. I am...
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Hi everybody , i have 1 problem with my new win 7.
Im using a Dell laptop. the system is win vista . changed to win 7 some days ago. the system runs good.
but yesterday when i installed 1 game with dirext 9 , the game still run good,
i played some hours then turn off the laptop.
Today, after...
Unigine has released the first DirectX 11 benchmark Link Removed. The benchmark provides native support for OpenGL, DirectX 9, 10 and 11, and is available for free download.
"Heaven" benchmark excels at providing the following key features:
Native support of OpenGL, DirectX 9, DirectX 10...
If I want to use aero and win 7 does my video card have to be compatible with directx 9 or directx 10 or will it work with both? Please let me know.
thx