The version I have running on hand is R294.14.
Also, I have confirmed that the Free edition of CF2.5 We have also confirmed that the Free edition of CF2.5 is not able to load various extensions (I think this may be a specification).
I downgraded to 292.22 to see if it works and it does.
Perhaps it's not loading the necessary libraries(d3dx9d_43.dll)
It is a common Windows loading
"C:\Windows\System32\d3dx9d_43.dll"
How about placing it here?
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64bit version of windows is here
"C:\Windows\SysWOW64\d3dx9d_43.dll"
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If the file d3dx9d_43.dll did not load properly
You will get a "Unicode version ~" error