Direct X 8.1

[alx]

Hi, my name is Alejandro, i live in Uruguay, a little country in souhtamerica, because of this, i speak
spanish, so my english is not soy good........i apologize for that

The question is this.......is just me or any other people noticed that when install DX8.1, in w2k or in
w98, playing divx movies become impossible.........the video gets screw (hope this is the word).....

I tried a program named DXErradicator to reinstall DX8.0a without any luck....so i have to format and
reinstall all again.....but with DX8.0a DVDx 1.8 does NOT work.......

Does anyone have any idea about?
Thanks a lot for your time and answer...

[Pojken Purken]

I'm running DivX with no problems on my W2K/DX8.1 over here. What video-card do you have? Are you sure you have DirectX8-compatible drivers? Have you installed SP2 in W2K and all the compatibility updates?
/PP

[theReal]

DirectX 8.1 made my rig score 400 points less in 3DMark 2001 (Win 98SE, ATI Rage 7500), but it works fine with DivX.

I have also installed DirectX 8.1 on a Win2k system with a rather old Matrox Millenium G200 and it works fine for watching DivX (as far as the card's capabilities go...).

Try installing new drivers for your graphics adapter, or reinstall the drivers you are using. I think removing DirectX from the system is not easy, if possible at all. A fresh install of Windows would probably be the easier solution...