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Wile E. Coyote at 09:32, 12 March 2016

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Tombraidergirl at 14:09, 12 July 2007

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Tombraidergirl at 22:10, 5 October 2004

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Always install the Direct X Version that came with the game you are trying to install, unless you have a newer version of course.

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 === Legend and Shader Model 2.0 ===
-There is an option in [[Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend]] that turns on the then new DirectX 9 Shader Model 2.0. It gives the game a more modern, [[Xbox 360]] like look, but also crashes in specific locations. To bypass these problems, switch to the normal rendering mode (turn off "next gen" in the settings), loade the last check point and play up until the next. Then quit the game and turn on "next gen" again. Repeat if necessary.
+There is an option in [[Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend]] that turns on the then new DirectX 9 Shader Model 2.0. It gives the game a more modern, [[Xbox 360]] like look, but also crashes in specific locations. To bypass these problems, switch to the normal rendering mode (turn off "next gen" in the settings), load the last check point and play up until the next. Then quit the game and turn on "next gen" again. Repeat if necessary.
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 Other [[Operating System]]s (like [[Apple]]'s [[OSX]] or [[Linux]]) mostly use [[OpenGL]] (which is nonetheless also available for Windows).
-All versions of the [[Tomb Raider Games]] that were released for the [[PC]] use Direct X with the notable exception of the first [[Tomb Raider]], which was written for [[DOS]] and used proprietary interfaces like [[Glide]] on the [[Voodoo]] range of Graphics Cards.
+All versions of the [[Tomb Raider Games]] that were released for Windows [[PC]]s use Direct X with the notable exception of the first [[Tomb Raider]], which was written for [[DOS]] and used proprietary interfaces like [[Glide]] on the [[Voodoo]] range of Graphics Cards.
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 On newer Windowses, starting with Windows XP and even more so for Vista and the following incarnations, using the [[Compatibility Mode]] provided with these systems do - in most cases - work better, though, with the added benefit of not introducing old and unsupported code into these new environments.
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−	~~Always install the~~ Direct X ~~Version that came with~~ the ~~game you are trying~~ to ~~install, unless you have a newer version~~ of ~~course~~.	+	'''DirectX''' (or '''Direct X''', sometimes abbreviated as '''DX''') is a Application Programming Interface (API) used by almost all games running under [[Windows]] and on the different [[Xbox]]es. The interface provides low level access to the functions of modern 3D and 2D accelerated [[Graphics Card]]s.

		+	Other [[Operating System]]s (like [[Apple]]'s [[OSX]] or [[Linux]]) mostly use [[OpenGL]] (which is nonetheless also available for Windows).

−	{{~~more~~}}	+	All versions of the [[Tomb Raider Games]] that were released for the [[PC]] use Direct X with the notable exception of the first [[Tomb Raider]], which was written for [[DOS]] and used proprietary interfaces like [[Glide]] on the [[Voodoo]] range of Graphics Cards.
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		+	== History ==
		+	Before the rise of Windows to dominance over the PC marked, most games were written for the older DOS operating system, where access to the hardware was always possible as there were no protective measures in place to prevent programmes from manipulating any resources installed in the machine. The same is true for the Windows versions up to 3.11, which were basically only [[GUI]]s for DOS.
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		+	With the release of [[Windows 95]] access to the hardware was made more difficult to prevent misbehaving programmes from freezing the PC. Applications now had to access hardware functions through well defined interfaces and drivers. One of these interfaces was Direct X. It provided access to graphics and sound hardware.
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		+	In a way this also helped the programmers as they did not have to write code specific to all the different video cards that were released to the marked, increasing the compatibility immensely. Direct X was adopted quite fast by the industry as well as the end users.
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		+	== Versions ==
		+	The first release was DirectX 1 for Windows 95. The last available version for Win 95 was DX 8.0a. For Windows 98, ME, and 2000, DX 9.0c is the last version available, for Windows XP it is 9.29. Windows Vista and 7 are restricted to DX 11, Windows 8.1 can use up to DX 11.2. The most recent version, DirectX 12, is only available for Windows 10.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#Release_history Wikipedia</ref>
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		+	== Problems with Direct X ==
		+	If there are problems with older games on newer PCs that run a higher version of DirectX than the game's manual specifies, one can try to install the Direct X Version that came with the game. Most of the times the newer versions of DirectX include all functions of older releases with some exceptions.
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		+	On newer Windowses, starting with Windows XP and even more so for Vista and the following incarnations, using the [[Compatibility Mode]] provided with these systems do - in most cases - work better, though, with the added benefit of not introducing old and unsupported code into these new environments.
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