DirectX - Complete install ?

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Of course, im sure that we have all noticed that so often, you install a game and it requires you to install DirectX. Doesnt matter what version, it just makes sure that it has the bits of DX that the game you are installing needs.

Some time later you install another game and once again it installs DX

Now, when you look at the DX files, with Game A you might have oh, say files 30 to 40 for example, and thjen with game B you might have 35 to 40 perhaps!

Ok, so, I was wondering... Is there a complete and full version of DirectX out there? If not, then could I simply make one up?

I have a fair handfull of copies of DX9 & DX10 from various sources that I have grabbed over the years and I have copied them into themselves for kicks and I have had had simply no real bonus in doing that, so, I am assuming that one of the files it uses has a list of which ones to use to install, but again, Im really only piddling into the wind.

I know its a useless request pretty much, but I just fancy the idea thats all.
 
To be fair on STEAM, if I do a fresh install of Windows, I do simply re-run Steam, and for it, or any games that I then run, if they need any specific DX files, it simply grabs them again. I do like that.

I recently installed a game, a new one... Not sure which, but it wanted to install DX twice ? What the?

Yeah, as for .NET

But again, I have those, however I did think that the later versions also gave us the earlier ones. This turns out not to be so.

I kind of wish that these all came with Windows updates not just DX10 ( I never knew DX10 did I admit )
 
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