[ENB ERROR] Failed to initialize renderer. No D3D Device description found

[Goblin]

Hey guys, So me and my girlfriend were modding our game of oblivion using the Tweaked ENB from nexus. It was working perfectly fine, all enb's were working until we installed a couple more mods and then the game crashed with this error: "failed to initialize renderer. No D3D Device description found." So our initial solution was to disable the mods installed, no fix, then ALL the mods and still same error. Once I removed the "d3d9.dll" from the ENB series rar file did the game relaunch.

It's a real shame cause the ENB was what made the game look super nice on
top of all the texture mods.

Has anybody run into this issue and has a solution? I've tried different compatibility modes, installing a new copy of directx, different ENB's as well as the injector. Could one of the new mods overwrite a deeper file that just can't work with the ENB? even though I've turned all mods off in Nexus, any solutions? going crazy with this.

[Goblin]

Anybody? really wish I could enable the enb.

[Leeux]

After installing ENB the recommendation is always run the Launcher and let it detect your video settings again... perhaps your Oblivion INI changed somehow and that made the information on it invalid?

I'd suggest, go to your My Documents\My games\Oblivion folder and rename Oblivion.INI to Oblivion.INI.BAK or something, then run the OblivionLauncher.exe and after it detect your settings again, try running the game.

Be sure to reinstall ENB's DLL before running the launcher, though.

Good luck!

[cyäegha]

i don't know how widespread it necessarily is, but i have heard - and experienced - trouble getting any form of post-process injection (ENB, reshade and sweetfx) to work with oblivion on windows 10, using an nvidia GPU; any d3d9.dll in the root folder would just cause the game to crash, no matter which of the many proposed solutions were tried, namely installing the 2010 directx redists, and using injector rather than wrapper

using an AMD gpu the game would boot, but not all of the graphical options in ENB would 'take', like the tintmapping and the DOF

[SisiRC]

I have found the solution!
I was having the same problem as yours. What I did was downloading the DirectX 9 driver in the following link:
https://filehippo.com/download_directx/

After the installation, the ENB finally kicks in. You will know when you see text appearing in the top left corner of the game menu.

Hopefully this solves the problem on your side too!

[Coldheart2236]

Originally posted by SisiRC:

I have found the solution!
I was having the same problem as yours. What I did was downloading the DirectX 9 driver in the following link:
https://filehippo.com/download_directx/

After the installation, the ENB finally kicks in. You will know when you see text appearing in the top left corner of the game menu.

Hopefully this solves the problem on your side too!

Thanks a lot for the tip; it got it working for me. I recently moved my entire modded installation over from Windows 7 to a clean install of Windows 10, and thankfully everything but Simple ENB was working from the get go.

I was getting either "Failed to initialize renderer. No D3D Device description found." with the wrapper version (d3d9.dll), and the injector exe just wouldn't allow the game to launch, or when it did crashed to desktop.

I've now got the wrapper version working fine now. DirectX definitely seems to fix the issue, since d3d9.dll is a Direct3D library belonging to the DirectX API.

Thanks again for your help, and once again hopefully others will see this if they run into the same issue in future :)