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Alex 14 is offline Alex 14
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Minimal Requirements: DirectX 8.0a vid. card. What the hell is that!?!?!?! Got spare money?

Does anybody know what that is suppose to be? Its under civ minimal requirements at civ3.com.
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It's a Video Card compatible with Microsoft's DirectX 8 Graphics Drivers. This, in practice, is any video card released in the past five years or so.
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I believe it is for the graphics part of it all. I think SMAC required Directx7. Usually the game supplies a download of it.
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It's a Video Card compatible with Microsoft's DirectX 8 Graphics Drivers. This, in practice, is any video card released in the past five years or so.


You exaggerate. But not by much.

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alex, it's a free download:

www.microsoft.com/dirextx

Almost all games made in the last 4 years use some version of the program. It's pretty much an industry standard. Don't stress over it.
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I hope they include the newest DirectX version with the cd, so noone has to dl something...
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I hope they include the newest DirectX version with the cd, so noone has to dl something...


Yes they do - they say so on the new site.

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It's more about the chip (set) on the video card than the card itself. Chip sets that are too old aren't compatible with DirectX 8.0a.
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