I have some games that I am trying to put onto my VISTA PC  I have Direct x 10 but the games are refusing to even load because they want DirectX 9 and try to load it. Particular games are Dreamfall; the longest journey and Eragon.  I have to stop them loading onto the PC when they get to trying to put Directx 9 on.  Anyone got any ...

Install DirectX 9c & SDK's into it. Bizarre as it seems, a program I have, Caesar IV, would not run UNTIL it verified I had DX9c on the system. A forum run by Vivendi Universal had a discussion regarding same, and someone said that DX 10 is supposed to be backward compatible -- only that MS left out chunks of code for some reason. Install 'em ...