directx help (soz if in wrong place ^_^)

[sieggy lee]

Im downloading it now...hope it works.It does annoy me tho.IM trying to play need for speed underground and it says i neeed directx 9.0c or higher...which i already have an when i try to install it, it fails and all that jibber thats on my first post pops up...DAM!!....BLAST!!!! .I thought i could order it of the net, being free and all but i gotta pay for it!.It costs £6!....cheeky lol

[ih8bills]

Originally Posted by sieggy lee

Im downloading it now...hope it works.It does annoy me tho.IM trying to play need for speed underground and it says i neeed directx 9.0c or higher...which i already have an when i try to install it, it fails and all that jibber thats on my first post pops up...DAM!!....BLAST!!!! .I thought i could order it of the net, being free and all but i gotta pay for it!.It costs £6!....cheeky lol

Keeping up-to-date should be a routine... it is a necessary part of keeping yourself and others a little safer-- there are many, many viruses/trojans etc... that you are vulnerable to due to NOT being updated.
Software (like games) also plan their upgrades to apply to upgraded PC's-- newer video drivers--run on newer Operating System files
XP is ten years old now-- there are thousands of threats / hundreds of pieces of hardware / hundreds of new software apps that did not exist... when it was first written.

Updating your OS should be a normal part of your PC maintenance.

[sieggy lee]

Originally Posted by ih8bills

Keeping up-to-date should be a routine... it is a necessary part of keeping yourself and others a little safer-- there are many, many viruses/trojans etc... that you are vulnerable to due to NOT being updated.
Software (like games) also plan their upgrades to apply to upgraded PC's-- newer video drivers--run on newer Operating System files
XP is ten years old now-- there are thousands of threats / hundreds of pieces of hardware / hundreds of new software apps that did not exist... when it was first written.

Updating your Operating System should be a normal part of your PC maintenance.

I know and i am trying but it aint easy when im not on the net.iI can only download stuff from work and i don't have all day to do it...and i wouldn't even know wot stuff i need to download as alot of the stuff i have downloaded says i need to be connected to the internet.

[ih8bills]

So you have no internet connection @ home?
Even dialup would be better than nothing... you can get a service plan for very little money. SP2 would take a very long time to download--it's a huge file-- but you could keep other stuff updated pretty easily. It would certainly be better than no connection-- a dial-up modem does not cost much-- and I've seen plans for as little as $7.95 per month US
No wonder you are still running XP "original".
I misunderstood your previous posts. my apologies

[slinkey1981]

You downloaded the SP2 installer, you need the SP2 Redistributable. The installer is just a program that tells it what you need to upgrade to SP2, while the redist. includes everything that any PC would need to upgrade.