DirectX Version on Windows XP SP3

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Agnel Kurian picture Agnel Kurian · Jan 13, 2009 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

What is the version of DirectX that is installed by default with Windows XP SP3? Google did not yield convincing results on this.

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Stu Mackellar picture Stu Mackellar · Jan 26, 2009

I've found a useful page in MSDN that confirms the version of DirectX included with each Windows OS and Service Pack release. It seems that the last change for XP was in SP2 - which was indeed DirectX 9.0c, as Raghu states.

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