DX 8.2 & Detornator 41.03!

[Guru]

DX8.2 & Det. 41.03!

[Indiana]

This so-called DX8.2 only contains an updated DirectPlay 8.2 and is not recommended for general installation. There are already quite a few reports of problems after the install.
The DirectDraw and D3D parts have not been updated and are exactly the same as in DX8.1 anyway.

[Admiral]

Installed DirectPlay 8.2 yesterday and played some UT2003demo online with no problems.
Haven't tested it over the LAN yet, everybody's playing CS and I hate that game (ducks for cover).
You might have problems not seeing and not being seen by people with older DX versions.

About the 41.03 detonators, they ****ed the registry entries again so most refresh utils out there won't work with it. You're down to RefreshLock (limited to 85Hz max) and maybe PowerStrip (haven't tested it).
They added a new "Performance and Quality" section with a Performance slider (can select Application, Balanced and Aggressive) and also moved the anisotropic and AA options there.
AF is now applyed to both APIs instead of individual options.

[Indiana]

Originally posted by Admiral
They added a new "Performance and Quality" section with a Performance slider (can select Application, Balanced and Aggressive) and also moved the anisotropic and AA options there.
AF is now applyed to both APIs instead of individual options.

Sounds like a copy of ATIs catalyst driver settings menu...

[High_Jumbllama]

170+ KBs per second for the 8.2 Update. *File hoarding in progress.* I'll add that to my 2.92 GB of drivers, Bios and APIs. Feelin' a bit bloated. *Burp!* Much better.

[High_Jumbllama]

The NT4 drriver appears to be corrupted on their site. Go here instead for that one.

[Gurm]

Actually, there are TWO versions of DX8.2 - one of them is a Directplay update only. The other is FULL DirectX 8.2 redist.

To find out which YOU have, fire up dxdiag, and if it still says 8.1 with a bunch of 8.2 files, you have the DP update. If it says 8.2, you have full DX8.2 - yay!

- Gurm

[Indiana]

But even in the "full" DX8.2 the D3D components are said to be exactly the same as in the previous DX8.1b

[High_Jumbllama]

Originally posted by High_Jumbllama
The NT4 drriver appears to be corrupted on their site. Go here instead for that one.

Forget that NVidia's seems to be corrupted too for NT4. 2K/XP is good though.

[GT98]

I was wondering WTF Combat Flight Sim 3 was talking about when it called out Dx8.2