Directx 12 Offline Installer
Ashlie Hagenson
This free download provides the Microsoft DirectX Redist Runtime, which is required for many games to play properly. The download is the offline installer, so no Internet connection is required for installation of DirectX.
This package is localized into Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French,German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, and English. This is a standalone installer, many older games can require it. If you get say d3dx9_39.dll not found" or "dsetup.dll error", or "d3dx9_43.dll missing, this can solve your issues.
For instance, if the latest stand-alone installer is downloaded from Microsoft website and installed, the assemblies are registered. I am not sure about the case when they do not get installed, but it happens. Often.
I'm not surprised that you're seeing these issues. You're relying on an extremely old, discontinued, and no-longer-supported API. The latest runtime installers will still install the assemblies for compatibility purposes, but they're not included by default because they don't expect anyone to use them.
To find the correct version i analyzed the error message. If the missing file is for example d3dx9_41.dll, it means that DirectX-9 version 41 is required. The list below shows the available DirextX-9 versions, the version can be found at the third column. This gives you a clue of what to search for, the keywords directx Mar2009 lead me to the microsoft download page.
Sometimes it helps to run the installer in "compatibility mode" for XP-SP3.
In some other cases, you can force the installer to continue anyway and the game will just work despite the errors during the installation.
And sometimes you are just out of luck.
On the Standalone installer, after you run it, it will ask you to specify a directory where the installation files should be extracted. Specify a directory and extract the files. In the extraction directory, run DXSETUP.exe, which will install all components of DirectX 9.0 / legacy DirectX SDK. I can confirm that the Standalone installer works and can be installed on Windows 10. I installed it just before I posted this answer.
You need the redistributable package, because the installation won't handle the online installer well. Once the file is downloaded, run the executable with Wine. Note: Microsoft tends to change the download links now and then, so if the link above is broken, Google for it.
A new feature in InstallAware 3.0 is the ability to deploy your entire web builds offline. If the main setup executable can locate some or all of the web media blocks it requires directly in the same folder as itself, it will first attempt to use these local copies of the web media blocks, instead of downloading them. If this attempt fails, or for web media blocks which cannot be found locally, setup will download from the web.
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