How to disable DirectX9 installation when deploy AutoCAD Mechanical 2011

[Anonymous]

I want to disable the DirectX9 installation When I deploy AutoCAD Mechanical 2011 to desktop PC via AdminImage,  so I modify the INI file ( comment or remove entries that include the word "DirectX" ), then I get following error messages:

Property(S): MsiUISourceResOnly = 1
Property(S): ACTION = INSTALL
MSI (s) (D0:64) [10:15:09:254]: Note: 1: 1708
MSI (s) (D0:64) [10:15:09:254]: Product: AutoCAD Mechanical 2011 -- Installation operation failed.

MSI (s) (D0:64) [10:15:09:254]: Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: AutoCAD Mechanical 2011. Product Version: 15.0.106.0. Product Language: 1033. Installation success or error status: 1603.

If I do not change the INI file ( means the DirectX installation will be active ), everything will be fine. So the question is, how to make the DirectX9 installation inactive when I deploy AutoCAD Mechanical 2011 to desktop PC via AdminImage ?  I want to do that because all desktop PCs already have DirectX9.

[hashim.mundol · Accepted solution]

directx 9c from Autodesk has some extra files which are missing in the standard download from MS.

if you wish to disable directx any way. only option is to edit the INI file,

section 

#==================== ACADM

LIne

PREREQUISITE=OS;IE;SSE2;DOTNET;DOTNETUPDATE;VCREDISTX86;VCREDISTX64;DIRECTX;FaroSDK;MSXML;WMF;CM;CMILL

Change it to

PREREQUISITE=OS;IE;SSE2;DOTNET;DOTNETUPDATE;VCREDISTX86;VCREDISTX64;FaroSDK;MSXML;WMF;CM;CMILL

Error you get might not related to directx. if you can post the verbose log(complete file) we can isolate the issue

[Anonymous]

Oh, that means I should enable the DirectX9 installation, thanks.  So, are these conditions " DOTNET;DOTNETUPDATE;VCREDISTX86;VCREDISTX64 " same as DirectX ? I means do they has some extra files which are missing in the standard ? If target PCs have standard DOTNET, VC Runtime,  may I disable them from the INI file ?

[hashim.mundol · Accepted solution]

those are standard files from MS. only directx has some extra files.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much.