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Can installing older DirectX on Windows 11 mess up the system? [duplicate]

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Pretty dumb question overall so I apologise in advance. I want to play an older game on Windows 11 (Max Payne 1, RIP James McCaffrey). Since it's really old I used this mega pack that includes a ton of fixes for the game: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1633394421

One of the options was "Option 6a, The install of this file insures all proper directX files are on the system, preventing possible faulty conditions. If already available it will be skipped automatically."

Basically it launched ms-dxwebsetup and I saw it downloading and installing DirectX9 and some other versions (older than 9).

Since I really can't see anything related to DirectX installed in Control Panel's Program and Features, can doing this potentially cause issues in the system? Reason I'm asking is because since this is a semi fresh install, everything is working perfectly and didn't want to cause any issues, not fond of the idea of installing multiple directX runtimes etc, hence my question.


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