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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Heretic on July 29, 2008, 12:37:47 PM
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Folks,
How do I completely uninstall DirectX and then reinstall from a trusted site? I'm having some serious issues trying to get the game to work.
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Normally, you'd be screwed in trying to get rid of DirectX as MS doesn't add any sort of uninstall for it. However, there are a few 3rd party programs that will allow you to uninstall it. You can download one of them from Major Geeks (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2935.html) and use it to uninstall DirectX.
After you've uninstalled it, reboot your machine and when it boots back into windows, go Microsoft DirectX page (http://www.microsoft.com/directX) to download DirectX. You may have to do a bit of navigating to get to the DirectX 9c runtime client. A shorter way is if you have any recent boxed games which should have DirectX 9c on the install disks. You can also install DirectX 9c that way as well.
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Why are you thinking DirectX would be the issue?
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Skuzzy,
Tried calling for you today but Carrie said you were busy. I would have to explain this over the phone to you. The game sometimes works and other times it doesn't. If for some reason I have to re-start my computer or have a power failure I have one heck of a time trying to get into the game. Its almost like something has not loaded at boot up and then I can't play the game at all. I don't even get to the log in screen. I'm about ready to uninstall the game and then reinstall it and see if that works
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Does Direct 3D have anything to do with the game? I am running GeForce 8800GT extreme Gamers vid card.
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Direct3D is the 3D graphics API for DirectX.
If you will send me a DXDIAG output with a description of the problem, I might be able to find something there.
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I'd be checking my power supply and temperature of my VC, MB, and CPU also.
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directx can be a problem for me becuase it updates all the time and some of the older versions of stuff won't work becuase of that :mad:
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directx can be a problem for me becuase it updates all the time and some of the older versions of stuff won't work becuase of that :mad:
Something not quite right here... DX9.0c is the latest version and has been around for a long time and your system shouldn't be updating DX. I assume that you are running XP instead of WISHTA.
All the Best...
Jay
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Hey fellas and thanks for responding. Yes I am running Windows XP. I reinstalled my vid card drivers off of my install disc and the game works. Who knew?
I have no idea why reinstalling the vid card worked but it did.
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Hey fellas and thanks for responding. Yes I am running Windows XP. I reinstalled my vid card drivers off of my install disc and the game works. Who knew?
I have no idea why reinstalling the vid card worked but it did.
Sometimes video drivers become corrupt and need to reinstall them.
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directx can be a problem for me becuase it updates all the time and some of the older versions of stuff won't work becuase of that :mad:
DirectX does not update itself and is not the cause of your older game not running occasionaly.
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Ok Fellas I found out what the problem was. I was running drivers from 1/9/2008 for my vid card. Evidnetly they were corrupted somehow. I uninstalled them and reinstalled drivers off of the Nvidia website and I can now log off and on the game at will with no issues.