What is DirectX 9 - and is it free?

[Kris]

Hi all

I'm getting my daughters iPOD ready for Christmas, and went to browse the music video's but it said I dont have DirectX 9.

I have seen some sites that say it's a free download but then asks for £6 worth of sms texts to get the code

I looked on Microsft but couldnt find a download version for Windows XP (Only windows 2000 and me)

Anyone come across this before

Many Thanks

Chris

[Steve Grisetti]

DirectX 9 is ancient history.

Here's the latest.
http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Ab ... ctX10.aspx

[Bob]

DirectX is a Microsoft product that provides the core multimedia support for Windows. The current version for Windows XP is 9.0c. Vista uses DirectX 10.0 which Microsoft says will not be made available for XP because it uses technology in Vista not present in XP.

It's free, but the Microsoft installer checks to see that you have a valid licensed copy of Windows. You can download and install it using Windows Update. Or, see this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179113 and this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

[Kris]

Thanks GUYS!...... thats a great help