999 not launching?

[Timeternal]

It was working fine last night. It opens the thing where you choose video settings, 999, or VLR, but choosing 999 closes it and does nothing. Then sets my Steam status as playing nothing.

[Renka]

Originally posted by Timeternal:

It was working fine last night. It opens the thing where you choose video settings, 999, or VLR, but choosing 999 closes it and does nothing. Then sets my Steam status as playing nothing.

try changing the controls options (that one that says Gamepad, Keyboard and Mouse)

it could be that something got corrupted, you could also try veryfing cache

[Timeternal]

Originally posted by Hatty:

Originally posted by Timeternal:

It was working fine last night. It opens the thing where you choose video settings, 999, or VLR, but choosing 999 closes it and does nothing. Then sets my Steam status as playing nothing.

try changing the controls options (that one that says Gamepad, Keyboard and Mouse)

it could be that something got corrupted, you could also try veryfing cache

I verified the cache, and the game is... reinstalling itself. Hopefully my saves are intact.

[Renka]

Originally posted by Timeternal:

Originally posted by Hatty:

try changing the controls options (that one that says Gamepad, Keyboard and Mouse)

it could be that something got corrupted, you could also try veryfing cache

I verified the cache, and the game is... reinstalling itself. Hopefully my saves are intact.

It is not reinstalling, it is downloading the missing/corrupted files.

Saves are located at \Documents\My Games\Zero Escape The Nonary Games\ , so even if you uninstalled the game, saves will still be there.

[Renka]

Not to mention it also has Steam Cloud, so don't worry about it

[V3]

Something similar happened to me a while ago too, if you haven't already fixed it, try changing the render settings to the other one you don't have selected (most likely OpenGL). That worked for me, but might be different errors :P

Hope it works!

[sulimanssk1990]

Same thing happen to me .
i have bought the Nonary game package (999 and Virtue Last reward ),Virtue its working but 999 its crash just after starting .

[PSI_m]

Worth a necro if people still have this problem. And I do.

[tasselfoot]

having this issue as well. Tried about 20 different combos of Direct8 vs OpenGL, windowed vs fullscreen, keyboard & mouse vs gamepad, and enabling / disabling vsync. 999 crashes 100% of the time after the 2 splash screens at the start, regardless of any combo of settings i've tried. frustrating.

[ValentB]

For me it doesn't start on Win7 but works fine Win11. VLR works fine on 7.

[Rusty_The_Robot]

I just fixed this for a friend. When launching the file directly from the game directory, it said D3DX9_43.dll could not be found. I copied this from Windows\System32 on my PC to the game directory on my friend's PC. This allowed the game to launch under OpenGL.

I don't understand in the slightest WHY this worked, but it's worth a try for anyone else affected by the same issue.

[cumlord]

5 years late, but my game was doing this exact thing, and i got it working.
The final solution (to the "the code execution cannot proceed because d3dx9_43 was not found" prompt) was to install some legacy libraries, which you can get here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17431

If for whatever reason that doesn't work for you, please also try the following (I did all of these first before I got it to work with the runtime web installation--since i already did these, its possible you need to do some of these before you can get it functional)

-update steam
-install LAVFilters: https://github.com/nevcairiel/lavfilters/releases
-update graphics drivers

other stuff you can try:
-attempt both steam beta (steam settings -> interface -> client beta participation -> steam beta update) and game beta (right click game -> properties -> betas -> select beta option)
-attempt launching in compatibility mode (right click .exe files -> properties -> compatibility, and try old windows versions)

hope this helps someone :)

[flight_delay]

I was facing the same problem today and tried many solutions mentioned by others and did not work.

After investigation, I saw the game was generating *.mdmp dump files for crashing so I decided to take a look using WinDbg. WinDbg pointed me to something called LGVID.AX that is causing the crash. And the file is actually in another game (for me it was Thief Gold).

After uninstalling the other game, 999 was able to run without problems. I suggest people try to search if they have LGVID.AX file on their machine (likely in a game folder).

(i guess sometimes steam might change some environmental parameters for needed libraries to be available for games and the path got mixed up)