Re: Direct3DCreate9() works with DX8?

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"Chuck Walbourn [MSFT]" <chuckw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> spake the secret code
<433c4b29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> thusly:

>The version number is meant to catch mis-matches of SDK headers and link
>libraries, not so much to ensure that Direct3D9 is installed on the system,
>but I would expect the object creation itself to fail on a system without
>DirectX 9.0 or later installed.

Correct. If you don't have DX9 installed, then your executable will
fail to launch if you linked to the import library and LoadLibrary
will fail to load the DLL if you are doing delayed loading.
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