Thanks everyone. I understand now. For the time being, i guess i have to use d3dref9.dll with the SDK.

I'm using DirectX because my program draws a simple 3D scene. I want to use software renderer so that my program is capable of ''fall-back'' to software if hardware is not found. If there is no software renderer in DirectX redist, how come programs such as Sketchup, and 3dsMax etc that do run on computers without dedicated graphics card? They dont ...

Hi, my program uses hardware acceleration in DirectX and when it is run on computers without dedicated graphics card, it fails to run. I then changed to software acceleration, and yet it still fails to run. I have installed DirectX 9 Redist Nov 07 on the target computer. I have debugged the code and found out that the program now depends on ...