Check DirectX Version

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Jake	(Posted 2004) [#1]

Hi - is there a way of checking which version of DirectX is installed from within BlitzPlus?

Jake

Kanati

(Posted 2004) [#2]

I don't know if there's an api call to check it... But you could run dxdiag with the /t <file> parameter.

IE:
dxdiag /t output.txt

Then look for

------------------
DirectX Components
------------------
   ddraw.dll: 5.03.0000.0900 English Final Retail 12/12/2002 01:14:32 257536 byt
es
 ddrawex.dll: 5.00.2134.0001 English Final Retail 5/8/2001 07:00:00 24336 bytes
   dxapi.sys: 5.00.2180.0001 English Final Retail 5/8/2001 07:00:00 10064 bytes
    d3d8.dll: 5.03.0000.0900 English Final Retail 12/12/2002 01:14:32 1156608 by
tes
 d3d8thk.dll: 5.03.0000.0900 English Final Retail 12/12/2002 01:14:32 7168 bytes
 d3dref8.dll: 5.01.2258.0400 English Final Retail 11/7/2000 16:16:46 181760 byte
s
    d3d9.dll: 5.03.0001.0902 English Final Retail 5/30/2003 10:00:02 1613312 byt
es
   d3dim.dll: 5.00.2180.0001 English Final Retail 12/12/2002 01:14:32 446224 byt
es
d3dim700.dll: 5.03.0001.0902 English Final Retail 5/30/2003 10:00:02 797184 byte
s
  d3dref.dll: 5.01.2258.0400 English Final Retail 11/7/2000 16:16:46 90112 bytes
 d3dramp.dll: 5.00.2180.0001 English Final Retail 12/12/2002 01:14:32 591120 byt
es
   d3drm.dll: 5.00.2134.0001 English Final Retail 12/12/2002 01:14:32 364816 byt
es
  d3dxof.dll: 5.00.2135.0001 English Final Retail 12/12/2002 01:14:32 49424 byte

in the text file. That's one way........