Uninstall Direct X 9 from 2000

[Someone Stupid]

Okay, 9 Beta had an uninstaller, D9 doesn't. I contacted MS, they said I have to reformat and install an older version (F'in MS). Their IS a way to do it, as my friend had downloaded a program from nVidia which did it, but after contacted nVidia they say they are no longer allowed to give it out and he no longer had the program has he had to wipe his drive because of switching motherboards and getting conflicts (obviously). I want to go back to 8.1 as 9 won't allow some games to even detect Direct X being present (mostly really old games like TIE fighter) and I don't need D9 as niether card supports it.

I've tried installing older versions of Direct X, all the way down to version 5.2 - nothing.

Tried searching, but couldn't find anything. Would anybody have a clue as to how to get rid of this SOB without reformatting my OS drive (as I've been doing that to damned much lately), reinstalling software/setting up hardware isn't fun and is time consuming to say the least.

[Giblet Plus!]

I used this to get rid of DX 9 when I had winME. I'm not sure if it will work for 2k.

[BipolarBill]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...covery_erd.htm

[Someone Stupid]

Thanks for the links guys. I thought of the repair option, but I knew I'd be reinstalling software anyway. I would save me the trouble of setting up a decent bit of my hardware again though.

Gib: It says it works for 2000, though it only says DX8.1 remover, I still suppose it works for 9 given how direct X resides (at least I bloody hope). If not the repair option is pretty much the "best" option.

[bassman]

Give this uninstaller a try...

[AllGamer]

Very good

thanks for the find

[Someone Stupid]

Wish I could have tried that one. Thanks for the help though Gib. It removed it, it also removed core Direct X files that I need to pull of the 2000 CD. The only problem with that is that my 2000 CD is the MSDN version with Pro, Server, and Adv. Server on it. So everything possible is compressed so I couldn't pull off my damned files needed.

Bipolar: Tried the repair option, didn't do sqaut. Now having reinstalled it, still getting lots of graphical errors (but it's a version with no SP), so I'm downloading on 56k at the moment SP3 in hopes that resolves everything. Everything is up to how it was before driver wise. Chipset 4.45, video and sound drivers, Dirext X 8.1, just it shows lots of "text" when scrolling around, and this is before actual gameplay, like on start screens which aren't mpegs or avi's - just everything after. This is really frustrating. To top it off, D8.1 didn't allow the old games to work either, must be either the lack of a service pack when tried, or having SP3 when I tried before that, as it would work on SP2 - now most older games don't detect DirectSound - though dxdiag reports everything fine. I'm getting sick of windows, if I'm gonna have to put up with this much in headaches I might as well go to Linux.

I just hope SP3 is worth the 2 + hours download time.

[Someone Stupid]

Well it fixed it. I had forgotten how crummy a gaming platform 2000 was without any service packs. I should have gotten SP 2 in hindsight, as that would have given me the ability to play older games that SP3 disables for some reason (can't detect Direct sound). Oh well, it works for most everything else, so I shouldn't be complaining.

[BipolarBill]

Yes you should have gotten SP3 sooner - at least before attempting to install DX9. That's your problem now.

http://www.friendsclan.net/modules.p...rticle&sid=210

[Someone Stupid]

Um, I had SP3 with D9? I probably babbled on a bit as it was late and I was rather tired of hitting yes to every stupid license agreement I have to agree to anyways so I probably made no sense.

Timeline:
W2000 SP2: No game conflicts with anygames
W2000 SP3: Wouldn't play a few rarer win 95/98 games, companies won't release a patch, but will happily sell you the product with no warning on the page (won't work in XP enviroment either).
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Reinstall, W2000, D8.1 SP0 - older games won't run as above, and new games experience severe problems
W2000 SP3, DX8.1: All games work fine except the old games.

In hindsight I should have downloaded SP2 and just DL'ed the security updates or pulled them off a tech CD monday - but I'm not reinstalling again. Everything is running fine, and as the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.