Yeah, I istalled it thinking, ok its not going to make much of a difference...but wow, my BF1942 runs smooth as hell now, before i was getting a little shoppy when alot of things are going on, but it really improved my performance! here is a direct link to the file if you don't want to do the web install
[url:635d4]http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/d/8/6d8af880-c050-455c-9536-4a04725db85f/dx90_redist.exe[/url:635d4]