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*Seg* · 10/16/2009, 10:09 am

Time for me to mention my rant on DirectX on my personal blog.

For the game installers, I changed around how a Telltale game does DirectX as of MonkeyIsland103. Before, I would invoke the web installer to get your DirectX working. This mostly works, but if your Internet connection is weird you won't get anything. To make sure the game at least launches, I put in the _41.dll at the game folder.

With 103 and after, a few things changed. Installers now include a DX off-line installer that only installs the following via DirectSetup (all x86 versions):

* Aug 2005 D3D9 v27 (Aka: 9.0c)
* Mar 2009 D3D8 v41
* Mar 2009 X3DAudio
* Mar 2009 XAudio
* Apr 2007 XInput

This adds 5.23mb to the installer file, but at least you get the right files in the right place the first time. After I invoke the Web installer to fill in the gaps if you opp-in. What I don't do is put in the _41.dll loose anymore in any case.

10/16/2009, 10:09 am	#21
Seg Telltale Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Rafael, CA Posts: 383	Time for me to mention my rant on DirectX on my personal blog. For the game installers, I changed around how a Telltale game does DirectX as of MonkeyIsland103. Before, I would invoke the web installer to get your DirectX working. This mostly works, but if your Internet connection is weird you won't get anything. To make sure the game at least launches, I put in the _41.dll at the game folder. With 103 and after, a few things changed. Installers now include a DX off-line installer that only installs the following via DirectSetup (all x86 versions): * Aug 2005 D3D9 v27 (Aka: 9.0c) * Mar 2009 D3D8 v41 * Mar 2009 X3DAudio * Mar 2009 XAudio * Apr 2007 XInput This adds 5.23mb to the installer file, but at least you get the right files in the right place the first time. After I invoke the Web installer to fill in the gaps if you opp-in. What I don't do is put in the _41.dll loose anymore in any case. __________________ Seg Special Projects Producer Telltale Games (Formerly a Content Programmer, 2010-2011) (Formerly the Build & Distribution Engineer, 2007-2010)

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