Hi Dark, Yeah, I've noticed that as well. I still had to install .Net 1.1 in order to get some games like Rail Racer to run on Windows 7 even though Windows 7 comes with .Net 4.0 out of the box. The reason for that is do to the fact Microsoft made a lot of changes in the .Net Framework between 1.1 and 2.0, and later versions like 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 built on the existing 2.0 framework. As a result anything 2.0 and later is pretty forward compatible, but older .Net 1.0 and 1.1 apps should be upgraded. Anyway, yeah, some older apps still need .Net 1.1 to be specifically installed to work.
As for DirectX most people assume that DirectX 10 is a full upgrade of DirectX but it isn't. The people who say they have DirectX 10 is knowingly or unknowingly saying they installed the DirectX 10 Direct3D graphics components, but DirectSound, DirectPlay, DirectInput,DirectMusic, etc haven't been upgraded in years. They are being phased out and slowly replaced by alternative components which ships with DirectX 11 on Windows 7. As I mentioned in my prior post DirectX 11 contains DirectX Direct3D 11 for 3d graphics, XAudio and XAudio2 for 2d/3d audioplayback, XInput for joystick support, X3DAudio for 3d audio positioning, and hopefully Microsoft will come out with a new network manager to replace DirectPlay as it is ancient and isn't even supported any more. Cheers! On 10/24/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't sure especially on the net and direct x > thing sinse I have had situations myself where i've had to install net > framework 1 despite having two on my machine, as you said though, this is > probably specific to one and doesn't run all the way up to four. > > As to direct x, I didn't know direct x 8-10 were basically the same other > than graphics support, that is indeed good to know. > > All the best, > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
