Hi there,

Just wondering if there was ever a good fix for games wanting very specific direct X versions. Don't currently have a 9x system I'm messing with, but remembering this as one of the biggest pain in the arses when it came to 9x gaming, so wanna be prepared as I get back into it.

What I mean is you maybe have Dx7 installed and try to run a game and it demands, 6.1.whatever, and won't run until you run the dxsetup off it's install disk... whereupon your dx7 games don't work until you put dx7 back on etc...

Sometimes you have what you think is an identical dx version down to the minor version number and game still doesn't like it, must be looking at file date and time or something which is different on it's install media to regular distribution version.

This seemed to be worst for dx6 games for some reason, dx7 was relatively plain sailing, then the same shit started to happen with some dx8 games, particularly around the 8.0c version.

Anyway, is there a util or something that catches request for whatever the game is looking for and just lies to it, giving it what it wants to hear, so you can have a later dx version and still run older dx games (You know, how it's meant to work.)

thanks for any hints..