Removing DirectX9

[Sparky19692]

Help please I have been looking and trying programs to remove Directx 9 it comes as part of XP sp2. My other pc has a ti4200 128meg 8x in it. That will not support directx 9 and i have a TON of lock ups. I would rather not reload and leave sp 2 off the system becouse there are a lot of nice features to it and lets be honest for home networking its a Snap and I'm not a IT guy. Help please if you have ever done this.

 

[igowerf]

I don't think DirectX 9 is causing your lockups. I have systems that use GeForce 4 MXs and Radeon 8500s running DX9 without problems. Where are you getting the lock-ups?

 

[mechBgon]

Seconded. At work we've got systems ranging back to PentiumII 350's with onboard nVidia TNT chips that are running DirectX 9.0C.

Just looking at your specs, the first several things coming to mind are (1) make sure your fancy RAM is getting its rated 2.75 volts (set it manually in the BIOS), and (2) knock off the 1T command rate and see if that helps stabilize it.

 

[Schadenfroh]

You can be removed easier than DX9

 

[obeseotron]

There is absolutely no way DirectX9 is causing your lockups. Do you really think MS would design DirectX so that it made old hardware crash? I mean just think about your question - it's integrated into the latest version of the operating system, they wouldn't do that if it couldn't deal with any hardware. The GF4 was designed to meet DirectX8 specs, but provided you have updated drivers it will work fine with DirectX9. Hell, a DirectX6 chip like the TNT would work with DirectX9 installed. Even without DirectX9 drivers you still wouldn't experience lockups.

Look elsewhere.

 

[magomago]

Yup..I have DX9 and a G4mx420....something else is causing your problems

 

[Sparky19692]

Sorry for the confussion this is no a older system that my kids are using P3 800, 512 meg of ram Ti4200 video card. I guess your all correct I reloaded with Xp Sp1 only. It still locks up when my son plays MOHAA.

 

[BFG10K]

The most obvious place to start would be to update the GPU's drivers to the latest version.

 

[Sparky19692]

Yep tried that. I haven't updated the system Bois but that is about it.

 

[Jeff7]

GPU drivers, chipset drivers, soundcard drivers, etc.
What are your full system specs?

 

[Sparky19692]

Well I think that I have it . I'm thinking that my video card Memory is going I installed coolbits and under cloked the memory it seems to be running fine for now I will see what happens after a few days. Memory was at 500 slowed it down to 250 will se what it does. I don't see much difference in the smoothness of the games or at least not that he is complaning about.

 

[obeseotron]

Well, a GF4 Ti is much faster than the p3 850 cpu you have it paired with. Geforce 4's were memory limited so you're probably cutting the speed in half, but you'll never know if you keep things at lower resolutions without AA. The CPU can't keep up anyway. Still a screwy situation. A new GF4 is dirt cheap on ebay, maybe look into that.

Also have you patched the game? MOHAA had a lot of crashing problems if I remember right. I thought it was mostly ATI cards with older drivers though.

 

[Sparky19692]

I may need to get a new one. I played on it last night and now it doesn't lock the system up but there is a strand triaglersation effect on the screen at times.
As far as the patch I will have to get that I had not even looked for one. Thanks for the heads up.