If you install and then run an application or game that requires the app, you might receive an error message such as 'The program can't start because d3dx9_35.dll is missing from your computer. However, your computer includes a more recent version of Direct X. Some applications and games require DirectX 9 (End-User Runtime Web Installer) for PC. The latest version of the Microsoft Windows Gaming API delivers Microsoft's powerful new High-Level Shader Language (HLSL) and features its most-advanced suite of design tools for the development of rich multimedia elements such as full-spectrum color graphics, video, 3D animation, and enhanced audio capabilities. The app includes security and performance updates, along with many new features across all technologies, which can be accessed by applications using the DirectX APIs.

If you think that your computer isn't powerful enough to be able to play on it, try out DirectX 8, and you might be surprised.Microsoft DirectX 9 (End-User Runtime Web Installer) is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. Making it ideal to work with low power equipment, like netbooks and nettops, even though we'll find it necessary to have a newer version to be able to launch more modern multimedia applications and games. Version 8 of DirectX is capable of working on old operating systems: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT and 2000. It's especially necessary for almost all games developed for Windows systems, due to their high-quality graphics and sound. For older systems, it's advisable to download DirectX 8.

The majority of applications that require the intensive use of the graphic card or of the sound card need DirectX to work. It's a driver and library package that communicates the operating system and the applications with the hardware devices like the sound card or the graphic card. If you like playing games on your computer, you've probably heard about DirectX.

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