jaff Posted September 7, 2001 Share Posted September 7, 2001 Please help, directx 8.1 beta period has expired and it keeps telling me the trial period is over, and is crashing most of my open GL games thanks to the the "trial period over" message being displayed in windows :( any ideas?? thanks :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1388-how-do-i-install-directx-80-over-81/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Krome Posted September 7, 2001 Share Posted September 7, 2001 You should confirm with Microsoft about this problem... Tell them where you get that software... and then uninstall DirectX... go to registry... clean up what you think look messy and install DirectX 8... if it's still doesn't work... again, call up Microsoft... tell them where you get it from... and then format the computer and re-install the OS... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1388-how-do-i-install-directx-80-over-81/#findComment-6314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Firecat Posted September 7, 2001 Share Posted September 7, 2001 Originally posted by jaff Please help, directx 8.1 beta period has expired and it keeps telling me the trial period is over, and is crashing most of my open GL games thanks to the the "trial period over" message being displayed in windows :( any ideas?? thanks :) @jaff: Email me (firecatz@gmx.net), and I'll help you out! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1388-how-do-i-install-directx-80-over-81/#findComment-6316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Krome Posted September 11, 2001 Share Posted September 11, 2001 Sorry Jaff, I was joking... and I realize I was mean in a way... had to read and think it over then I felt like I was really mean... :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1388-how-do-i-install-directx-80-over-81/#findComment-7079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MytMowse Posted September 11, 2001 Share Posted September 11, 2001 get the 8.0a from microsoft, right click it and extract it to a dir. this is for win2k but just look around in the windows dir if you use win9x including winXP. all the .PNG files go into winntsystem32directxdinput the .exe and .dll files go into winntsystem32 the .sys files go winntsystem32drivers AND winntsystem32dllcache the .ini files go into winntsystem32directxdinput It worked for my friend who got that very msg 8) If you can't find the dirs just search for where windows has them then copy it that way. IT's faster if you make a .bat file. copy *.extenion x:dir :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1388-how-do-i-install-directx-80-over-81/#findComment-7081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Please help, directx 8.1 beta period has expired and it keeps telling me the trial period is over, and is crashing most of my open GL games thanks to the the "trial period over" message being displayed in windows :( any ideas??
thanks :)
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