'Retro' gaming and DX

**Shaun** · September 06, 2006, 11:10 AM

Currently, I am bored with my current games. And havent got a good enough PC (yet) to play newer ones (post 05).
So I decided to dig out some of the jewels that I bought or was given in like 1999, but was too stupid to understand how to play, thus never getting past level 2. So I installed hidden and dangerous and a few others and they needed DX 6, so didnt install thinking that DX 9.0c would be able to handle them fine and thinking that DX6 would overwrite my current version. Would it? Is there anyway to have them co-exist or something? How do you play old games on a new system?

**Emperor Dimitricus** · September 06, 2006, 11:30 AM

it wouldnt install dx6. dx9.0c can handle anything previous to it as well.

**Shaun** · September 06, 2006, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Emperor Dimitricus

it wouldnt install dx6. dx9.0c can handle anything previous to it as well.

But when i try to play some old games I just get a black screen.

**OTZ** · September 06, 2006, 12:26 PM

Are they WINXP compatible?

**Last Roman** · September 06, 2006, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by OTZ

Are they WINXP compatible?

most likely problem I'm gonna guess

**Shaun** · September 06, 2006, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by OTZ

Are they WINXP compatible?

No, but I am running it in compatability mode.

**Incinerate_IV** · September 06, 2006, 07:40 PM

Personally, compatability mode does nothing to improve compatibility of old programs. DX versions are backwards compatible, so that shouldn't be the problem.