That is, confusion on my part! I thought I understood this, but apparently not. I'm going about updating my folks' T41 (drivers, apps, SP2 etc, seeing as it hasn't been 'modernised' since they bought it back in June) and, apart from Update-Connector-hell (I've now reverted to 'manual'!) I'm slightly confused about what to do with the DirectX9.0c that Windows Update is suggesting that I download and install - without undo!.
I was sure that the Ati7500 in their T41 was only DirectX7 compatible (max), and a quick search, revealing this thread http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... rectx+7500 seems to confirm it.
However, running 'dxdiag' at the command reveals that DirectX9.0b is currently installed as stock. So my question is, if the Ati7500 only supports Directx7, how does it reconcile with a higher installed version of DirectX? And with that in consideration, is there any point, benefit or other siginificant reason to download (or not) the latest version of DirectX.
TIA.
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