UPDATE: DirectX 9 Control Panel

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We posted this back in January when DirectX 9 had just released, but for some reason a debug version was used (I only noticed this yesterday while playing with dxdiag) so I downloaded the SDK and extracted the retail version of the Control Panel for everyone.

To see which version you have:

Click Start > Run
Type dxdiag & enter
Select DirectX Files tab. If you don't have a message there about the control panel then you have Retail.

The file is 80kb (zipped) and includes a readme with install instructions :)

Download: DirectX 9 Control Panel

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#1 Z3r0 on 19 Mar 2003 - 08:32

The page you were looking for does not exist, check spelling? Click here to go to Neowin

#2 Admiral50 on 19 Mar 2003 - 08:35

Yep not working here either.

#3 Wolvereen on 19 Mar 2003 - 08:36

Its the man trying to keep us down...

(1 reply) #4 net-cruizer on 19 Mar 2003 - 08:43

It's the address. I changed it to... http://www.neowin.net/downloads/dx9_cpl.zip and it worked.

#4.1 Neobond on 19 Mar 2003 - 08:58

doh!

thanks, I fixed the link, works now

#5 Z3r0 on 19 Mar 2003 - 08:50

lol

(1 reply) #6 Unforgiven on 19 Mar 2003 - 08:56

Thank you so much Neowin, now there is no need to dl all DX9 SDK for this file

#6.1 SecretAgentMan on 19 Mar 2003 - 11:52

LOL, I downloaded the darn thing twice when it first came out. I extracted the Control Panel file and then deleted the SDK before checking it.

Good thing I have cable here, hehe.

#7 noir on 19 Mar 2003 - 11:22

it doesn't make sense that they don't include this with regular directx, thanks neobond for providing this

#8 mugabe221 on 19 Mar 2003 - 12:38

Why the hell would anyone want this

(1 reply) #9 purush on 19 Mar 2003 - 22:59

Yes, could someone educate as to why is this necessary ?

#9.1 net-cruizer on 20 Mar 2003 - 02:51

TweakUI for XP isn't necessary either, but is useful. So, the DX thing in the Control Panel may serve some purpose, and it's not like it's any trouble to install, and it's small in size, so why not install just becuz, lol.

#10 Pebbles on 20 Mar 2003 - 07:17

Well lets see it has the ability to turn on and off debug info, so if your trying to run a game and it crashes you can use this to provide some enlitenment, also it's an easy way to tweak settings in DX9 and windows altough personnally i'd stick to my gfx/sound card manufacturers software for that sort of thing, but hey there's more than one way to skin a cat.

#11 megatron on 20 Mar 2003 - 14:18

When you run dxdiag it gives a warning that this version is a debug version and that the retail (included in the dx9 setup) would be better.

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