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davyjones
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 Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:14 pm Post subject: Direct X not initiated |
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So, after reading over some posts and challenges the last week or so, I tried to dust off my Pirates icon sitting over on the left side of my home screen.
And kept getting that error. It never happened before. THe only thing I can think of that is different, is that I have a new monitor. I currently have directx11 and win7, which is supposed to be compatible. And it was last year before the new monitor on this same desktop...
I tried changing the config file to different values per several website suggestions. None of them helped.
Anyone face similar issues? any suggestions? Maybe I didnt enter the correct values for width/height... |
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fleetp
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davyjones
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| Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Cool... thanks
I'll try again this week. I downloaded something from MS, but it didnt work, either. It's weird. It almost seems to have to be due to the monitor drivers, but I have no idea how to confirm and/or what to do to adjust/fix. |
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sparticus
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| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| davyjones wrote: | Cool... thanks
I'll try again this week. I downloaded something from MS, but it didnt work, either. It's weird. It almost seems to have to be due to the monitor drivers, but I have no idea how to confirm and/or what to do to adjust/fix. |
Goodluck. |
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davyjones
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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Oh well... it wouldn't install because it found a newer one. I'll keep searching. |
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fleetp
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Thati is strange. I have Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) and was able to install DirectX9c and successfully run Pirates. Did you try running Pirates in Windows XP compatibility mode? |
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davyjones
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Actually I updated the nvidia drivers and it started working again. Wooo woooo... |
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fleetp
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad you got it working, and that you posted the solution. |
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ronnraymore
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:05 pm Post subject: Bizzar behavior DX9.0c |
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I have one notebook running Win7 that works with the DX9.0c provided with the game disk.
Another with Vista business cannot run direct x and I get the usual failure to load message.
What the MS-hell is going on? Anyone? |
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