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Snake_Eyes · 06-08-2007, 03:23 PM

There has been an update to DirectX (June 07). Will it help with ArmA?

Suma (BIS) Lead Programmer has this to say:

"There is no need to download this, as it will not change anything. The core DX9.0 runtime is stable since original 9.0c release, and has not changed since then. The only thing which is changing now is the utility library.

The only thing used from the utility library by Armed Assault is the shader compiler. To use the update utility, the game exe needs to be recompiled. As the only important thing which ArmA is using from the utility library is the HLSL compiler, and its 9.0 version is already stable and not being updated any more, no update both on your or our side would change anything."

06-08-2007, 03:23 PM	#6 (permalink)
Snake_Eyes Moderator Join Date: May 2006 Location: Cheshire, UK Posts: 74	Re: ArmA Patch Updates (started prior to 1.08) There has been an update to DirectX (June 07). Will it help with ArmA? Suma (BIS) Lead Programmer has this to say: "There is no need to download this, as it will not change anything. The core DX9.0 runtime is stable since original 9.0c release, and has not changed since then. The only thing which is changing now is the utility library. The only thing used from the utility library by Armed Assault is the shader compiler. To use the update utility, the game exe needs to be recompiled. As the only important thing which ArmA is using from the utility library is the HLSL compiler, and its 9.0 version is already stable and not being updated any more, no update both on your or our side would change anything."