It seems DX9 does the trick…

OK, I do not like installing old stuff and I wanted to check here anyway just to confirm. I guess I am just impatient. I have installed dx9. I do seem to remember that I had it on the old computer (or rather old Win10 install) but I thought it was there for programming university stuff, specifically a gaming module.

There should be something said early on and somewhere really obvious so that people know that they need June 2010 dx sdk. It would be very helpful.