sloppy game installers

Jaz · 25 Mar 2006 at 11:31

Is it me or are the people working on the install code getting sloppy, the amount of games ive installed in the past week or so that have said we're about to install DX9.0c is ridiculous. It used to be that the installer could detect your version number of DX and say that it wasn't nessacary. Ive been running DX9.0c since it came out.

a silly thread perhaps, but the coders should be putting effort into the OOTBE.

Mobius 1 · 25 Mar 2006 at 11:33

Oblivion told me i was missing a .dll file lol. So i had to manually download that :/

Black Dog · 25 Mar 2006 at 11:57

Same here Tauren. was it dx3d27.dll or something like that?

If it was then it's actually on the disk in a zip file under directx

Had to place it in windows/system32.

leezer3 · 25 Mar 2006 at 12:57

If I might point out, DX 9.0c has been updated several times without a version number update. (AFAIK, October '05, November '05 & the current Feb '06 releases)

Cheers

-Leezer-

Mobius 1 · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:26

Black Dog said:
Same here Tauren. was it dx3d27.dll or something like that?

If it was then it's actually on the disk in a zip file under directx

Had to place it in windows/system32.

Yeh black dog. Although i put it in my oblivion folder. I will put it in my sys32 now.

Edit: funnily enough... i have that file in the sys32 folder already, wonder why it didnt detect it....

Radiation · 25 Mar 2006 at 15:16

leezer3 said:
If I might point out, DX 9.0c has been updated several times without a version number update. (AFAIK, October '05, November '05 & the current Feb '06 releases)

Cheers

-Leezer-

Your right it seems but is it just me or have most people never heard about these updates?

dirtydog · 25 Mar 2006 at 16:33

I wish PC games gave you the option to run the entire game off the disc, without installing it. Some new games take ages to install, and take up huge amounts of HDD space. And they still don't load any quicker than their console counterparts :rolleyes:

me227 · 25 Mar 2006 at 16:43

dirtydog said:
I wish PC games gave you the option to run the entire game off the disc, without installing it. Some new games take ages to install, and take up huge amounts of HDD space. And they still don't load any quicker than their console counterparts

The majority of PC games now don't run anything except disc verification when starting the game up from their discs. Apart from that everything else is now put onto the HDD directly.

*Delete if Borderline*

About 6 or 8 years ago when No-CD cracks came out for games you had to manually move a lot of files from the CD to the HDD because it needed them. But for games now you don't need to manually move anything because it's all already on the HDD.

dirtydog · 25 Mar 2006 at 16:50

me227 said:
The majority of PC games now don't run anything except disc verification when starting the game up from their discs. Apart from that everything else is now put onto the HDD directly.

*Delete if Borderline*

About 6 or 8 years ago when No-CD cracks came out for games you had to manually move a lot of files from the CD to the HDD because it needed them. But for games now you don't need to manually move anything because it's all already on the HDD.

Yeah I know, but I wish games gave you the option. Some older games used to - Colin McRae Rally 2 is one of them. In fact it might have installed a few megs worth, but the full install was about 500MB or something.