I played on a server, which crashed, and I was done for that time. Then I tried to play Soldat an hour or so later and now it says (yes, I'm typing now in present-tense instead of past; I still have the error) I need at least DirectX 8.0 when dxdiag says I have 9.0c. I ran the D3D test in dxdiag and it failed all three when they normally succeed.

[code] D3D7 Test Result: Failure at step 37 (SetCooperativeLevel to Fullscreen): HRESULT = 0x88760245 (error code)
D3D8 Test Result: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x88760868 (error code)
D3D9 Test Result: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x88760868 (error code)[/code]

I'm quite positive Soldat caused the defection; I didn't touch anything else during that time.

I got the setup from Microsoft.com and it didn't even reinstall; I just accepted the license agreement to install and it instantly said "Installation Complete" without even opening any files. the_ven0m from #soldat.polyworks knows. He said to troubleshoot by right-clicking the desktop, going to Properties, and going to the Troubleshoot secion of the Settings tab, but that has no straight-away area for inquiring about DirectX.

I'm not even gonna touch this version of the game anymore until a bugfix is released. Now I can't even work on waypoints because MM+ (and I'm sure PW, even tho' I haven't tried it yet) requires DX as well, so for now I'm gonna have to resort to my ME and it's 1.3 for wypt.-testing. In the meantime, can anyone help me out? MANY thanks in adv.

Ugh... ¦-|

It works. The tests are all passing successfully. I don't know why. I will never play 1.3.1 without the next bugfix online again.

Oh damn... you scared me there. Hope this wont happen in my comp..

did you try uninstalling directx, restarting your computer, and reinstalling it?

How on earth can you uninstall DX? I thought that was necessary to Windows (or somethin' like that). the_ven0m said there were non-Microsoft uninstallers, but I'm not sure how to go about finding them (just Google?...).

http://myappz.tk/
don't use it unless you're sure your computer won't explode if you take DX away.

sorry, i replied to this thread about 30 seconds after i woke up. I meant to ask if you just tried reinstalling directx over the current installation.

Yeah, that's what I did.

quote:Originally posted by n00bface
... don't use it unless you're sure your computer won't explode if you take DX away.
How can I be sure?... oO'

Yay. Read above. No clue. All I did was try to run the DX setup a few times, and upon that, gave up and restarted the comp. Then I came back after church ~7 hours later and everything pwns. I guess you can lock/delete this thread now...