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Kuai Jet Sep 14, 2016 @ 12:50pm
Launching problems for RTW, Windows 10 on steam
So, i'm hoping someone will be able to help me out but ive installed rtw on steam and i play on a windows 10 laptop, but for some reason i cannot start up the game. I get a notification saying that DirectX 9 is required to run the game? Can someone please give me a hand?
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HazardHawk Sep 14, 2016 @ 12:54pm 
shortcut is to turn off AA in the preferences file using notepad.

Proper way is to go into Windows/System32, scroll down and find your d3dx9 files and copy them, paste then into your Rome folder. DO NOT DRAG AND DROP!
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Link Sep 14, 2016 @ 7:09pm 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AbkU0PkUf4
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Link Sep 14, 2016 @ 7:09pm 
Worked for me.
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HazardHawk Sep 15, 2016 @ 2:47am 
Originally posted by Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AbkU0PkUf4
Thank you for posting the help video. Personally, I cannot see it on Steam. It is too small but then I am using a 240hz 4K 40" TV as my monitor at 1920x1080. Thankfully the title is shown so I could search it, but as I have discovered with most people asking help on Steam, people do not like to search. May I suggest when you post a video like that you also post the web address in quotations so the link will be visible as well? I think that would work to make it easier to find.

I will go search it later so I can watch and make sure it includes all the little details to work for everyone and make suggestions to the author if they are needed so please do not think this is a complaint. It is actually a very good idea to have a video and I was simply too busy to make one as Windows 10 was released.
Last edited by HazardHawk; Sep 15, 2016 @ 2:48am
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3am Sep 16, 2016 @ 3:38am 
The link for that video is this...

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AbkU0PkUf4" wiithout the quotation marks.

Basically, it's find the preferences file, set AA to off, no commentary just 11 minutes of very bad music...
Last edited by 3am; Sep 16, 2016 @ 3:41am
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HazardHawk Sep 16, 2016 @ 9:14am 
The only problem with turning off AA rather than copying and pasting the directX 9 files direclty into the Rome folder is it forces Rome to revert to simulated DirectX 8. Fortunately computers are fast enough now that it is barely noticable outside of minor details.

The irony is, if you have an INTEL CPU you also need the d3dx8.dll file to force actual directx 8 to stop the lagging.

Sadly, Rome was not meant to run on Windows 10 at all and was slated to be blacklisted so it would not even try to install prior to release from Beta. In fact, Microsoft already had Alexander blacklisted when the fix was found and they had to remove it from the blacklist. Took me 2 months to figure out it was a permissions, DirectX 9, and resolution problem working together to cause it not to run.

Oh, and if anyone still has troubles, add "-ne" without quotations to the Steam launch options or to your disk shortcut to clear them up.
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