Windows 10: Game requires DirectX 8.1 or higher installed

I recently upgraded from windows 7 to 10 on a new SSD hard drive and fresh install. I downloaded Command and conquer generals and was able to play it. After a month of not playing it I tried to play it again yesterday and I get the error Game requires DirectX 8.1 or higher installed or video card does not meet the minimum requirements. I have been to Origins help page and tried all of their work arounds-changing the compatibility setting, run as admin, change the option file. I have also tried windows feature and legacy mode but it was already checked. I also uninstalled from my secondary drive to my primary drive. One solution was to run directx 8.1 but I have 12 and not sure how I would be able to do that without it auto updating back to 12. Also not sure why it was working 5 weeks ago and not working now. Also to note, all the other C&C games appear to be working, it is just this one.

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Fifa 07 cannot run on windows 10, the program requires that i install DirectX 9.0c or higher but i have DIrectX 11 installed on my PC. what should i do

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Directx 9.0c or higher?

Hi there,

I have problem with installation of the old game.

In my files that i downloaded of the game. There is Autorun option that installs the game. After I type the cdkey and click yes couple of times. Its asking me to have directx 9.0 or higher. I'm trying to run it on my Win10 OS and when i type dxdiag it says
i have directx 12 version. Can someone explain me how to fix this problem?

Thanks for any help and sorry for my poor grammar.

 

Installed w10, got only directx 9Ex

I installed w10,
dxdiag is showing that it has directx 9Ex

What happened to dx 12, 11.1 11.0 or even 10?

how can it bundle such an older dx version?

1. If higher dx versions are there in the installation pen drive, how can I extract the installations files from there and install them?
   
2. I also have w8 and w7 installations, so how can I copy a higher dx version from those o.s. to w10?
   

ADD: 27 April 2016

I also am not in to gaming, so don't need higher dx for that.
I use ChrisTV to watch TV on my pc using a TV Tuner.
ChrisTV shows lines and haziness that distracts, so taking recomendation of christv site, I download WMEncoder_64bit_v9
which, on running, is giving the error that
"it requires directx media 8.1, so can't run."

Even when my dx is 9E something it doesn't recognize that, probably it needs clearcut 9.0 written there.
So I tried to upgrade dx just to be able to run WMencoder.

the question changes to how to make WMencoder run on my box which requires dx 8.1 or higher, when I already have dx 9E.

Can I downgrade dx to dx 9.0 so that the software recognizes it and runs?
Thanks.