DirectX Diagnostic Tool (W32)

DirectX Diagnostic Tool

Platform: Windows 32 Year: 1999 Developer: Microsoft Corporation

DirectX Diagnostic Tool (widely known as DXDiag) is a program bundled with DirectX package for Windows. It has some music samples for testing DirectMusic functionality.

Screenshots

Testing music functionality.

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Music

VGMPF Album Art

"Edge" was written by David Yackley and used in DXDiag version 6.1 through 8.2. Beginning with the version 9.0 the program uses "Flourish" song by Nathan Grigg, placed in Media folder. And since DirectMusic technology is deprecated beginning with version 10, the program has no Music tab in it.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
01	Edge	David Yackley	0:43		Download
02	Flourish	Nathan Grigg	1:27		Download

Credits

• Ripper: binarymaster
• Recorder: binarymaster
• Music Credits:
  • Composer: David Yackley
  • Composer: Nathan Grigg

(Source - file metadata)

Game Rip

Format	Conversion	Download
		Download (Info)

The game rip includes manually converted MIDI version of the "Edge".

Releases

World Title: DirectX 6.1 Platform: Windows 32 Released: 1999-02-03 Publisher: Microsoft Corporation     World Title: DirectX 9.0 Platform: Windows 32 Released: 2002-12-24 Publisher: Microsoft Corporation

Links

• support.microsoft.com/kb/190900 - DirectX: Description of the DirectX Diagnostic Tool.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DxDiag - Wikipedia.