2011-01-08, 03:30
AnalogKid Wrote:I alluded to this issue a number of posts ago regarding not '100%' true that you can use the updater without ever having XBMC installed first.
The problem stems from the 'real' XBMC distribution bundling DirectX too... this is totally fine, since XBMC needs DirectX, BUT... if you only user the updater tool, you simply get Raw XBMC without DirectX... so the best fix is to use the original XBMC installer first, then the update tool will work correctly thereafter.
Now, I can hear many folks saying 'BUT I already have DirectX (esp win 7 users)'.... it's complicated, but basically you need to install support for older versions of DirectX... so just use the original installer.
If you're very Windows Savvy, you can simply grab the missing DX dll's from another PC (or some 'source') and drop into into the XBMC folder (side by side with xbmc.exe).
not to be a pain, but that wasn't the case for me. I had originally installed 10.0 on the PC in question and had never previously used the updater.
With my problem i had used the xbmc installer first (and xbmc worked fine), and then used the updater which is when I got the error. When i reinstalled 10.0 with the installer, xbmc worked again. Then when i used the updater again, I got the same error again.
The only way I would stop getting the error was installing the dx redistributable from Microsoft after i used the updater.