FS2004 DirectX Incompatibility Issue

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Looks like I finally found a solution to manually uninstall
directx. It seems to work as FS9 now plays! See this link
if you are curious
http://forums.belution.com/en/directx/000/001/03.shtml

Gosh, just when I was at wits end, the French came through.
Who wudda thunk?

Merci mes amis!

>-----Original Message-----
>When trying to start FS9, error message says "FS cannot run
>because the verison of Microsoft DirecX installed on your
>computer is incompatible. Please reinstall DirectX 9.0 by
>running FS Setup, or download the current verison from
>www.microsoft.com/direcx." Did all the above without
>success. Downloaded DirectX 9.0b. Nada. Reinstalled FS9. Zip.
>
>I suspect a DirectX issue, given DxDiag.exe gives error
>message "The procedure entry point DdEntry1 could not be
>located in the dynamic link library GDI32.dll." Furhter
>error message given is "The procedure entry point
>GetRawInputDeviceInfoW could not be located in dynamic link
>library USER32.dll."
>
>Any suggestions are welcome.
>
>Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
>Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195
>VIA Technologies, Inc.
>P4X266-8233
>X86-based PC
>x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~2400 Mhz
>BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
>NVidia GeForce 4 MX 440
>.
>