DX9Redist

The Steam release of FUEL has a directory DX9Redist with several redistributable files for DirectX 9 from various versions of the SDK. Most of these files are from the August 2008 release of the SDK except for APR2007_xinput_x86.cab and OCT2006_d3dx9_31_x86.cab which come from their respective releases. List of all the files in DX9Redist, their hashes, and which SDK version the file was likely taken from:

File Name	SHA256	Source
APR2007_xinput_x86.cab	5ab7bb15394e4ece850da5453413ab1de2ea97d5c93f86482b75073aaa05da9c	April 2007
Aug2008_d3dx9_39_x86.cab	490636eb27e929efd712f3c5028b2c1b2adbd1deb24f9cd6407b7add6559bb91	August 2008
DSETUP.dll	5b4c9977c41f7c53c2574385e41c4c70bc407e48a9c9ac79c3a0964debb10f04	August 2008
dsetup32.dll	9db4910b99cfed2a5944303ac6ff0f609c335131c4ee3e75a1b4c61d3c1a6ce3	August 2008
dxdllreg_x86.cab	2beb76744844fa9acb67f1e497826fc87fbb5388f7ac4f450d38371aee6c6b4d	August 2008
dxnt.cab	a25a840e6b8b98918d94dad08bd196cb3af8a33d312b2cb430139ed86899785f	August 2008
DXSETUP.exe	d6bcd10c6f9d9137189de9a9b9f76f033b8e5022129b710a9a3091116cd45ec5	August 2008
dxupdate.cab	8158187acfea6e6d5f349568a3e1efab69bb425adcc1a025a638e2c32470c4a0	August 2008
OCT2006_d3dx9_31_x86.cab	e69504f902ffa31e4155fc29d0ce3f65fb8e513af1cbc5e18125847c900e3ff3	October 2006

Given that the majority of the files came from August 2008, one of the newest releases while the game was being finished, and the game imports functions from d3dx9_39.dll (August 2008), the game was almost certainly linked against the import libraries (d3d9.lib, d3dx9.lib, dinput8.lib, XInput.lib, and dsound.lib) from this version of the SDK. XINPUT1_3.dll, which the game imports, comes from Redist\APR2007_xinput_x86.cab and Xinput.lib from Lib\x86\Xinput.lib do not match between April 2007 and August 2008; while the shipped APR2007_xinput_x86.cab came from April 2007, it is still possible that the game was linked against Xinput.lib from August 2008.

What follows is a list of files in SDK releases with hashes matching those in DX9Redist. The links go to archive.org copies of the SDK installer for that version. If a file is missing, it is not a match for the one in DX9Redist. Each version contains files with the same names as ones from the previous version i.e. April 2007 contains files from October 2006 and all other earlier releases; however, some do not match despite having the same name. While April 2007 has the same OCT2006_d3dx9_31_x86.cab as October 2006, August 2008 does not have a match for either OCT2006_d3dx9_31_x86.cab or APR2007_xinput_x86.cab.

October 2006

File Name	SHA256
OCT2006_d3dx9_31_x86.cab	e69504f902ffa31e4155fc29d0ce3f65fb8e513af1cbc5e18125847c900e3ff3

April 2007

File Name	SHA256
APR2007_xinput_x86.cab	5ab7bb15394e4ece850da5453413ab1de2ea97d5c93f86482b75073aaa05da9c
OCT2006_d3dx9_31_x86.cab	e69504f902ffa31e4155fc29d0ce3f65fb8e513af1cbc5e18125847c900e3ff3

August 2008

File Name	SHA256
Aug2008_d3dx9_39_x86.cab	490636eb27e929efd712f3c5028b2c1b2adbd1deb24f9cd6407b7add6559bb91
DSETUP.dll	5b4c9977c41f7c53c2574385e41c4c70bc407e48a9c9ac79c3a0964debb10f04
dsetup32.dll	9db4910b99cfed2a5944303ac6ff0f609c335131c4ee3e75a1b4c61d3c1a6ce3
dxdllreg_x86.cab	2beb76744844fa9acb67f1e497826fc87fbb5388f7ac4f450d38371aee6c6b4d
dxnt.cab	a25a840e6b8b98918d94dad08bd196cb3af8a33d312b2cb430139ed86899785f
DXSETUP.exe	d6bcd10c6f9d9137189de9a9b9f76f033b8e5022129b710a9a3091116cd45ec5
dxupdate.cab	8158187acfea6e6d5f349568a3e1efab69bb425adcc1a025a638e2c32470c4a0