ok, pappenheimer was right, i tried over and over, i suppose the video card on the other machine didn't support these features, although it should have....but nonetheless i have it working...

@blink: the way you get this to work is make sure that you have d3dx9_36.dll, and download the version 1.1, then just put it in your acknex_plugins folder and it will load automatically, but without the d3d dll it won't recognize any of the commands, so it won't load. Sylex used a older version of dx, this one uses the last dx9 version, also sylex was worded differently, with this one you can use in engine shaders properly