VegasPro9 - System Requirement omission - DirectX

ChristoC wrote on 7/22/2009, 8:31 PM
After successfully installing VegasPro9 32bit on a bog-standard clean install of WinXPpro-sp3, starting Pro9 during splash screen I got message popup "Vegas has stopped working" - with opportunity to send error report, but no real indication of what was wrong - & Vegas fails to start ....

Some hours of head scratching later, I noticed the splash screen seemed to halt when loading DirectX - so I downloaded installed Microsoft DirectX.

Now VegasPro9 starts correct.

This requirement for DirectX is NOT mentioned in Vegas Release Notes as a minimum system requirement.

Maybe this helps others in similar predicament.

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 7/22/2009, 8:44 PM
DirectX installs with every version of Windows since 95b.
That it did not install correctly with yours is a mystery, and is certainly not the fault of Sony. It installed correctly with my XP Pro SP3, and a fresh Vegas install worked without any additional "downloads."

Kindly forgive Sony for assuming the obvious . . .
TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/23/2009, 4:21 AM
I forget what version 9 uses, but I had the august 08 release & Vegas 9 worked like it should.

Could be your default DX install got messed up & that was the issue.
ChristoC wrote on 7/23/2009, 5:51 AM
I think its deeper than that - my video card does not require DirecX, possibly therefore Windows didn't install - ultimately a pity that Vegas didn't report what caused failure of start though.

Before installing 9 I had installed 8, and CDArch + SoundForge + DVDArch5, and a bunch or other A/V programs; all functioned as expected.

anyway, my point was that if others found same symptom, this is the solution.
Former user wrote on 7/23/2009, 6:08 AM
Windows installs DirectX by default, as stated above, regardless of your video card. It is used by soundcards, video cards and other software and hardware. I would say you either had an old version of directx (maybe installed by an older program) or a corrupted install.

Dave T2
musicvid10 wrote on 7/23/2009, 9:35 AM
This really sounds like an isolated case, I haven't had DirectX go sour on me since Win98 (DX8 I believe).

You can always go to Run, type in dxdiag and get the full details of your DX version along with the diagnostics.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/23/2009, 7:36 PM
windows REQUIRES DX, it won't work w/o it. doesn't matter if the gpu needs it or not (and all of them in ~the last 8-10 years do for windows)