'D3D9 Application : Could not reset the Direct3D Device'

[TemporalandReaty]

I have this error after I load into the main menu as soon as I click on something. In case it has to do with my setup graphically I have a gtx 960 2gb ssc and 2 monitors.

[maddoctorgrim]

I had the same problem
if you open the the star wars empire at war folder you should see a folder called support inside is direct x i just ran the install that came with the game and it worked

[FelipepRanger]

If the solution above doesn't work, try to manually uninstall your current driver for the graphics card. My GTX 1080 had an update that screwed up the video compatibility with the game, had to install an older version

[Chosen of the Crystal Magika]

Ok I was having the same problem but I fixed it with a few changes to the system.

If you system is using Nvidia Optimus you need to manually target "runme.exe, runeme2.exe, and run it as high performance driver instead of the integrated driver, You can find these in the main Empire at war folder in the steam install location.
You also need to turn the game exes as well to High Performance Driver.

Also try and run the games as windows XP SP3 compatible it might be that too.

My last fix for the game would be to disable to steam community game overlay. it was the change i did and it stopped the error from popping up and stopped the total white screen of death I would get from alt tabbing too.

hopefully these fixes help in anyway.

[TemporalandReaty]

Originally posted by maddoctorgrim:

I had the same problem
if you open the the star wars empire at war folder you should see a folder called support inside is direct x i just ran the install that came with the game and it worked

The support install helped got it to where I could open options but Forces of corruption still crashed when I tried to do singleplayer. So, one of my friends suggested deleting the data folders so I did then verified the install and it started working.

[Chosen of the Crystal Magika]

Cool, I'm very glad it worked out for you in the end.

[raincloud40]

Originally posted by MagikaMan:

Ok I was having the same problem but I fixed it with a few changes to the system.

If you system is using Nvidia Optimus you need to manually target "runme.exe, runeme2.exe, and run it as high performance driver instead of the integrated driver, You can find these in the main Empire at war folder in the steam install location.
You also need to turn the game exes as well to High Performance Driver.

Also try and run the games as windows XP SP3 compatible it might be that too.

My last fix for the game would be to disable to steam community game overlay. it was the change i did and it stopped the error from popping up and stopped the total white screen of death I would get from alt tabbing too.

hopefully these fixes help in anyway.

Great Idea on disabling the Steam overlay. I remember many older titles having stability issues when the overlay is on.

[Wookie]

I found running it in windowed mode helped

[EmmaKindaSux]

I know this thread is old, however i have recently had this problem, and may have come up with a fix. After about 5 days of playing the game i had this problem, and the only soultion i could find was extremly complicated, however with some messing around, I found out that on windows, if you take the white bar, and simply drag it to the top of the moniter to fullscreen it, close the application, and relaunch from steam, it fixes itself, i don't know if this is only me, but let me know if this helps.

[dAjOsh42069]

@Pleeo Sr. -- Duuuuuuuuuuuude... thank you so much... Thank all of you actually! However, it was Pleeo's suggestion tat saved the day here!
I have 3,500 hours in empire at war, and it suddenly didn't want to work. The "resizing" idea struck me, because what I'd done to crash the game was accidentally try to resize it in windowed mode, as I typically don't keep in in full screen. (since I use Steam to stream it to a laptop, and the cursor always bugs out.. and the not maximized helps with that)

Again though... Thanks guys!

[Potential Phil]

Originally posted by maddoctorgrim:

I had the same problem
if you open the the star wars empire at war folder you should see a folder called support inside is direct x i just ran the install that came with the game and it worked

You sweet, sweet genius, Ive had this issue for years and you just fixed it!! Now I can finally run SW FoC Fullscreen on max graphics, and actually run the remake mod without it crawling

[LargeIsopod]

Originally posted by EmmaKindaSux:

I know this thread is old, however i have recently had this problem, and may have come up with a fix. After about 5 days of playing the game i had this problem, and the only soultion i could find was extremly complicated, however with some messing around, I found out that on windows, if you take the white bar, and simply drag it to the top of the moniter to fullscreen it, close the application, and relaunch from steam, it fixes itself, i don't know if this is only me, but let me know if this helps.

BRO you're a legend. That worked for me, thank you so much haha

[debbieandcory]

its a common bug issues, restarting or even checking downloads should help identify if it is busy download for workshop items.

[LittleEgg]

Ok all these issues can be fixed by going to steam settings and go in game then disable the steam user inteface