DirectX 9

[XeonTrinity]

So everyone knows when you first download a new game there is a little download that takes about 1 minute. Well for my fallout new vegas that did happen, but everything got downloaded to the SSD and my game to my HDD. I need those files on my HDD if I am going to be using a ENB for my game. I think it said it was installing DirectX 9 and that would be put on my SSD, my ENB doesnt work cause it cant find a thing that it needs and it sounds like DirectX. I have directX12 downloaded to my HDD but my ENB still doesn't work

So I think I need the files to be put into my HDD but I don't know how to make that happen

[BoNfiRe]

Direct X is a system wide thing, I'm assuming it didn't install? Where the games are installed doesn't matter.

[XeonTrinity]

Originally posted by DaddyBeee:

Direct X is a system wide thing, I'm assuming it didn't install? Where the games are installed doesn't matter.

I checked to see if it was installed and it said DirectX 12 was downloaded. Also im talking about the 'First time setup' on a game, those files are being downloaded to my SSD

[BoNfiRe]

What version of Windows are you on? Also, if you need DX9 - goto Microsoft site, download it and install. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429

[XeonTrinity]

Originally posted by DaddyBeee:

What version of Windows are you on? Also, if you need DX9 - goto Microsoft site, download it and install. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429

Im on Windows 10, and I have can't install directx 9 cause of my windows version

[XeonTrinity]

The 'First time setup' said DirectX9 on it but it didnt go the HDD and the ENB doesnt work cause it cant find the file

[BoNfiRe]

I've installed DX9 fine on Windows 10. Needed on older games, so if it doesn't work, the issue must be something else.

[XeonTrinity]

Originally posted by DaddyBeee:

I've installed DX9 fine on Windows 10. Needed on older games, so if it doesn't work, the issue must be something else.

I think I found the problem, DirectX 12 didn't download with windows 10 but when I downloaded it I put it on my HDD instead of my OS:

[Cathulhu]

Your OS is on your HDD, otherwise it couldn't work.
OS = Operating System = Software
Software is stored on the HDD = Hard Disk Drive = Hardware

[XeonTrinity]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Your OS is on your HDD, otherwise it couldn't work.
OS = Operating System = Software
Software is stored on the HDD = Hard Disk Drive = Hardware

My OS is on a SSD

[BoNfiRe]

It's still on a physical drive, which is what Xeon was trying to say, or at least I think so anyway... are you getting any errors when you try and install DX 9?
It will only install on the drive with the OS installed, so it will never go on your HDD... not unless your doing a dual OS windows based system.

[talgaby]

I have a fleeting feeling that OP's problem is a hung pre-start installer window. Go to where you downloaded the game, locate a .VDF file (most likely called InstallScript.vdf), and delete it. If you have played any game on that machine that was made before 2015, you msot likely have DX9 installed already anyway.

[Vassago Rain]

All versions of DX10+ also include backwards compability with older DXs, all the way back to the first one, in case you're playing some really ancient game that specifically uses tools and things that were all the rage in the 90s.

DX, when installed, applies to windows, and windows is probably on your SSD. I'm pretty sure you didn't know this... Modding might be too complicated for you, man.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by XeonTrinity:

Originally posted by DaddyBeee:

What version of Windows are you on? Also, if you need DX9 - goto Microsoft site, download it and install. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429

Im on Windows 10, and I have can't install directx 9 cause of my windows version

This is just something all WinOS needs; you can't tell it where to go, as it goes to C:\Windows structure. Honestly there is nothing to worry about. All of this is normal.

[Belanos]

Originally posted by talgaby:

If you have played any game on that machine that was made before 2015, you msot likely have DX9 installed already anyway.

If not, the install package for the DirectX routines needed for the game can be found in the game folder. Just look in the sub-folder called Redists and run it.

Originally posted by Bolbi:

Im on Windows 10, and I have can't install directx 9 cause of my windows version

That's not true, DirectX 9 is backwards compatible and won't interfere with any DirectX 12 routines.

Originally posted by Bolbi:

I think I found the problem, DirectX 12 didn't download with windows 10 but when I downloaded it I put it on my HDD instead of my OS:

That again is not true, DirectX 12 was already included in the OS. What you downloaded was just the installation package, not the software itself. You already have all of that with Windows 10.