SAVE TULANE ENGINEERING

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Missing directx dlls - like d3dx9_26.dll

So while attempting to finish far cry last night apparently somehow my directx 9.0c installation got somewhat borked. It was failing to find d3dx9_26.dll (apparently looking around the files d3dx9_24.dll, d3dx9_25.dll, d3dx9_27.dll,d3dx9_28.dll also seem to disappear randomly). Doing a quick google search I found somebody who had the dll available to download but being a little wary of installing random but hopefully helpful DLLs and also figuring that there might be more than one missng file, I went to the source, Microsoft. I dutifully went and downloaded the directx installer but since I have already installed directx that didn't seem to help as the installer didn't do much of anything. Fishing around some more I found the easiest way to correct this mess is to go to the microsoft web site and look for the DirectX End User Runtimes, the full version, as the web installer wasn't all that helpful. At this time you can find this at :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/sdk/default.aspx

After installation your computer should be in a much happier DirectX place (at least until the next time the dlls mysteriously disappear) Hope this helps!

Friday, February 10, 2006

Which Superhero are you?

A little Friday Fluff (as see on Thoughts Thunk Too Hard) :

Your results:
You are Green Lantern
























Green Lantern
75%
Spider-Man
75%
Superman
60%
Robin
60%
The Flash
55%
Hulk
55%
Iron Man
50%
Supergirl
45%
Batman
45%
Wonder Woman
40%
Catwoman
35%
Hot-headed. You have strong
will power and a good imagination.


Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz