DirectX is a necessary software component for nearly all multimedia-related tasks on Microsoft Windows computers, and it has been necessary ever since Windows 95 was released. DirectX version 9.0c was ...

If you see the error message, The following components are required to run this program, while trying to run programs, primarily games, on your Windows 11/10 PC, then ...

I needed to install DX9c because I wanted to play a game that was very finicky about which DX version it wanted. Normally in Windows7 you get a shield where you confirm that you indeed want to install ...

If when you try to start a program, you receive an error message – This program can’t start because xinput1_3.dll, xinput1_4.dll or d3dx9_43.dll is missing from ...