DirectX 10?

[monel]

Any advice much appreciated.

I've been trying to emulate the PS2 and apparently DirectX 10 would help, but I can't seem to find a download link. Microsoft has a huge variety but I don't know if I should install DX 11.

My onboard graphics card is a GeForce series 8 based GF8100VM-M5 motherboard which supports DirectX 10 but I don't know if that means it can handle DX 11.

Also, do I have to uninstall previous versions of DirectX?

Please advise, I have no clue when it comes to this stuff.

[briareos_kerensky]

It can handle DX11, however it won't be able to support the new features.
First, check the DirectX version installed: open the start menu and type dxdiag in the run field. If you have Win7 you'll have DX11 already installed, Vista comes with DX10 I think.

There is no way of installing a previous version without uninstalling the existing version first.

However you should have no DX issues in running PS2 emulation.

[monel]

Thanks b k, apparently I already have DX 11 installed, as I'm on Windows 7.

I checked the settings also and it confirmed it.

As I said before, I am clueless when it comes to this stuff.

What's weird is an app I ran a few months ago (I think) claimed I didn't have Direct X installed, so I installed an older version. Which is weird since I thouh if you have a later version already you can't install an older version without uninstalling the later version first.

Was DX11 part of the Windows 7 install or via an update?

[briareos_kerensky]

DX11 come with Win7, no update/install required. If you ran an installer for a previous version it did nothing, as it wouldn't have installed anything, it probably showed the "install complete" dialog and nothing else.

[sj33]

The DirectX updater installs the latest 'revisions' of files which some games rely on. But there isn't a specific download for DirextX 10 or 11, you will already have it.