On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:13:24 -0800, Darren <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Actually, I'm curious about this. If the API changes 90% with each 
> version, how is it that a game that runs with DirectX7 installed 
> continues to run when upgrading to DirectX8 and DirectX9?

I do not know how DirectX is builded but it's easy to make it with shared
libraries on Windowses (DLLs). Every next version can install own DLLs as well
as DLLs of previous versions. Again, I do not know if this is the case of
DirectX.

ABX

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