Microsoft does not provide a stand-alone package for this version of DirectX. It automatically receives through Windows Update.

DirectX 12 is the default version available in Windows 10.

(2 elderly couples I know had it forced on them, and in both cases it trashed their equally elderly systems, so I recovered their Win7 set ups and installed Never10 for them).To Check Which Version of DirectX is Installed in Windows 10 Default DirectX versions in Windows Windows 10 I still dont know a single person using it, so never had the chance to have a peek at the dx set-up.

MY apologies, I got the 'DX12 only' from another LOTRO thread some time back, when people first started having issues running LOTRO on Win10.

I suppose this post will be seen as 'sponsored by M$' Put another way, it's more a problem with LotRO's installer than with Windows. But, alas, the LotRO installer fails to do so. And those which do depend upon them should be installing them appropriately on every edition of Windows (not just Windows 10). One suspects that games that don't depend upon such extensions will run fine in DX9 mode on Windows 10. The recommended way of obtaining which is installing the runtimes. LotRO doesn't fail to run appropriately on Windows 10 because Windows 10 is lacking DirectX 9 compatibility overall but rather because a couple of very particular DirectX extensions aren't included by default in Windows 10 (and perhaps every other edition of modern/supported Windows) and LotRO fails to install those extensions as it should.Īs documented here, all that's needed for Windows 10 to run LotRO fine in DX9, DX10, or DX11 mode are two or three DX extension files.

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