Reply 20 of 30, by mockingbird
wrote:Seeing about 5 threads about this in the past year or so has me experimenting again. […]
Seeing about 5 threads about this in the past year or so has me experimenting again.
Thus far I've found one example of DirectX 8-9 being a problem in 98SE. If you run a Vortex 2 card and play Wheel of Time, WoT.exe will completely lock the PC the second time you try to run the game. If I uninstall the Vortex 2 driver (2041) or revert to DirectX 7.0A, this no longer occurs. I tried DirectX 8.0, 8.1, 9.0b and 9.0c and each exhibits this issue.
Lots of games seem to work fine. I recall this being a problem with Sin and Homeworld but I haven't gotten to those games yet. Homeworld Cataclysm works ok though.
So be wary of your old sound card drivers if you must run > DirectX 7.0a.
Yes, DirectX 9 (or even 8 for that matter) breaks certain games... MotoRacer is a good example.