

Including LotRO (though currently the LotRO installer messes it up). Many, many games install them as a prerequisite during the game's installation routine. Installing the older runtimes will/can do no harm. Whereas more generic (less specific) calls to the DirectX API would be picked up and interpreted by the modern version of DirectX.

Those overly specific calls fail when the older runtimes are not installed.

what I suspect happens is that certain software makes overly specific calls to specific versions of a directX library/runtime. Though Microsoft makes the claim that DirectX 12 is backwards compatible with DirectX 9, 10, and 11. You often need to install the old DirectX runtimes to get games written during older Windows eras to work on more modern versions of Windows. Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3 02/04/10 10:15:31: dsetup32: start finalizing: phase: 142 - 142, total: 0 - 82 02/04/10 10:15:31: dsetup32: Installation ended with value -9 = Internal or unsupported error Many thanks to anyone who can help.No, it does not appear to support the Windows 10, or is the information in the supported systems inaccurate?

You will need to look into the Steam Store backend to add this redistributable, which is part of the Steamworks Common redistributables package. 02/04/10 10:15:31: dsetup32: CSetup::InstallPlugIn(): DirectXUpdateInstallPlugIn() failed. It uses an audio DLL that isn't built into Windows but instead distributed via the DirectX Redistributable or the DirectX End User Runtimes. 02/04/10 10:15:31: dxupdate: DirectXUpdateInstallPlugIn(): ExecuteInf() failed. module: dsetup32(Sep 4 2009), file: setup.cpp, line: 1701, function: CSetup::SetupForDirectX module: dsetup32(Sep 4 2009), file: dxupdate.cpp, line: 280, function: CSetup::InstallPlugIn module: dxupdate(Sep 4 2009), file: dxupdate.cpp, line: 5858, function: DirectXUpdateInstallPlugIn uninstall all Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables you have currently. Unable to install C:\WINDOWS\system32\DirectX\DX20B.tmp\d3dx9_33_x86_xp.inf. If youre using Windows 7, check out the Could not hook DirectX error upon. I have same problem.Did anyone find a fix for this? All the drivers seem to install OK appart from APR2007_d3dx9_33_x86.Direct X log files read - module: dxupdate(Sep 4 2009), file: dxupdate.cpp, line: 2046, function: ExecuteInfįailed API: SetupInstallFromInfSection() Error: (1168) - Element not found.
