{"id":248,"date":"2007-07-08T14:36:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2007-07-08T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T18:36:11","slug":"directx-install-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/08\/directx-install-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"DirectX install resolved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe install problems continue.  The DirectX web installer Microsoft provides doesn&#8217;t connect.  Nobody who has used it has ever been able to get it to connect, including myself. <\/p>\n<p>So I was including the 50MB offline installer but as it turns out that didn&#8217;t work either.  Rather than the installer just running, as is the normal and sensible thing to do, it actually just extracts a bunch of files to a user-specified directory.  So the offline installer isn&#8217;t an installer at all, it&#8217;s just a zip file.  You then have to go to the extraction directory and run the exe there.  I assumed Microsoft did the sensible thing at first, without checking, so I have myself to blame.<\/p>\n<p>I came across <a HREF=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb219742.aspx\">DirectX Installation for Game Developers<\/a> which goes over which files you need and which you don&#8217;t.  So I managed to delete most of the files and get it running in silent mode.  It&#8217;s quite fast too.<\/p>\n<p>Except for PhysX I think my installer should work for most people now.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The install problems continue. The DirectX web installer Microsoft provides doesn&#8217;t connect. Nobody who has used it has ever been able to get it to connect, including myself. So I was including the 50MB offline installer but as it turns out that didn&#8217;t work either. Rather than the installer just running, as is the normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}