Failed To Initialize Player (HELP! NO GAMES WORK)

[Legionkingz]

I was running games perfectly fine then i get off the PC then come back a minute later to play a game and it pops up an error message saying,

"Error
Failed to initialize player.
Details: Failed to initialize Direct3D.
Make sure you have at least DirectX 9.0c installed, have drivers for your
graphics card and have not disabled 3D acceleration
in display settings.
InitializeEngineGraphics failed"

My specs are:

Windows 10 Home x64 version 1709 OS Build 16299.251
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Intel Core i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz 3.00GHz
8.00GB DDR4 RAM (7.90GB usable)

[Display]
Operating System: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit
DirectX version: 12.0
GPU processor: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Driver version: 391.01
Direct3D API version: 12
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA Cores: 1152
Core clock: 1506 MHz
Memory data rate: 8008 MHz
Memory interface: 192-bit
Memory bandwidth: 192.19 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 7115 MB
Dedicated video memory: 3072 MB GDDR5
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 4043 MB
Video BIOS version: 86.06.3C.00.8A
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen3
Device Id: 10DE 1C02 82FC103C
Part Number: G410 0020

[Components]

nvui.dll 8.17.13.9101 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.13.9101 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdbat.dll 8.17.13.9101 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdapix.dll 8.17.13.9101 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.13.9101 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvCplUIR.dll 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvCplUI.exe 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSSR.dll 23.21.13.9101 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvWSS.dll 23.21.13.9101 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvSR.dll 23.21.13.9101 NVIDIA Video Server
nvViTvS.dll 23.21.13.9101 NVIDIA Video Server
NVSTVIEW.EXE 7.17.13.9101 NVIDIA 3D Vision Photo Viewer
NVSTTEST.EXE 7.17.13.9101 NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application
NVSTRES.DLL 7.17.13.9101 NVIDIA 3D Vision Module
nvDispSR.dll 23.21.13.9101 NVIDIA Display Server
NVMCTRAY.DLL 23.21.13.9101 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 23.21.13.9101 NVIDIA Display Server
PhysX 09.17.0524 NVIDIA PhysX
NVCUDA.DLL 23.21.13.9101 NVIDIA CUDA 9.1.84 driver
nvGameSR.dll 23.21.13.9101 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
nvGameS.dll 23.21.13.9101 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server


DirectX Diagnostic Tool shows that everything is fine.. Direct3D acceleration is on and all of my drivers are up to date.. I've updated Windows and obtained all the latest c++ visuals and directX drivers, and Nvidia drivers and restarted my PC with no luck.. One second my games are working then the next second they all stop.... Any help would be greatly apprecitaead because not being able to play your 100+ game library kinda blows lol.

THANK YOU!

[Falro the Great]

A couple of things to try:
- make sure DirectX is up to date
- reinstall the distributables for your games, like VCRedist
- update your drivers, or roll back to the last WHQL release.

[Legionkingz]

Falro the Great eredeti hozzászólása:

A couple of things to try:
- make sure DirectX is up to date
- reinstall the distributables for your games, like VCRedist
- update your drivers, or roll back to the last WHQL release.

Thanks for the reply!

I have checked DirectX and it is up to date. I reinstalled all my distributables and I've updated my drivers and nothing is working...

[Legionkingz]

Somebody please help me! This is a very troubling issue....

[Falro the Great]

Try wiping your GPU drivers with DDU[www.wagnardsoft.com] and then reinstall them.

[The Giving One]

Falro the Great eredeti hozzászólása:

Try wiping your GPU drivers with DDU[www.wagnardsoft.com] and then reinstall them.

I would agree with this from the good Falro.

But to do it right, you need to use safe mode also.

So remove all drivers from normal Windows boot. Then boot into safe mode and run DDU and clean out all GPU drivers, as in any leftovers.

Then reboot and install the lastes drivers for the GPU again. I would maybe have the installation package for the GPU drivers already predownloaded to my PC beforehand, to speed things up.

[Legionkingz]

The Giving One eredeti hozzászólása:

Falro the Great eredeti hozzászólása:

Try wiping your GPU drivers with DDU[www.wagnardsoft.com] and then reinstall them.

I would agree with this from the good Falro.

But to do it right, you need to use safe mode also.

So remove all drivers from normal Windows boot. Then boot into safe mode and run DDU and clean out all GPU drivers, as in any leftovers.

Then reboot and install the lastes drivers for the GPU again. I would maybe have the installation package for the GPU drivers already predownloaded to my PC beforehand, to speed things up.

I'll try it and get back to you here in a bit. thanks

[Legionkingz]

Falro the Great eredeti hozzászólása:

Try wiping your GPU drivers with DDU[www.wagnardsoft.com] and then reinstall them.

I'll use Nvidia's drivers from the website but does the UDD (Update Display Driver tool) work like DDU? If it does I'll try that as well to see if any other drivers are out of date..

[Legionkingz]

DriverDR shows that I have 4 drivers that are out of date.

NVIDIA High Definition Audio
Intel(R) Display Audio
Intel(R) HD Graphics 630
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controlle

Once I update and try the steps you all have posted, I'll let you all know if this helped!

[The Giving One]

Yea, that quite possibly your problem, and why you have to use safe mode for this.

If you are not using safe mode, the process may not clean them out correctly.

Conflicting drivers from different GPUs can cause issues sometimes.

[Legionkingz]

The Giving One eredeti hozzászólása:

Yea, that quite possibly your problem, and why you have to use safe mode for this.

If you are not using safe mode, the process may not clean them out correctly.

Conflicting drivers from different GPUs can cause issues sometimes.

I booted into safe mode and used DDU and uninstalled the driver then rebooted and updated the driver. That did fixed my GPU error and GeForce Experince error (THANK YOU) but I'm still having the same error;

"Error
Failed to initialize player.
Details: Failed to initialize Direct3D.
Make sure you have at least DirectX 9.0c installed, have drivers for your
graphics card and have not disabled 3D acceleration
in display settings.
InitializeEngineGraphics failed"

[The Giving One]

It could possibly be conflicting software causing issues with first time setup of that game, and presenting itself all over again after you take steps to resolve the error, due to the software still being active.

For example, we have seen some cases where an antivirus program or security process blocks the VCRedist installing correctly when first launching a game.

You may need to look at that possibility.

What antivirus program do you have and do you have any other security software installed at all ?

In some rare cases, there can be other processes that still get in the way, even if such security software is disabled, as disabling the parent does not disable the child processes of that parent.

Programs Which May Interfere with Steam

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

EDIT...........

For example, this guide may be game specific, but still could be useful to you.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=217120421

EDIT...

Generic forum search..........

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/search/?q=%22Failed+to+initialize+Direct3D%22

[Legionkingz]

The Giving One eredeti hozzászólása:

It could possibly be conflicting software causing issues with first time setup of that game, and presenting itself all over again after you take steps to resolve the error, due to the software still being active.

For example, we have seen some cases where an antivirus program or security process blocks the VCRedist installing correctly when first launching a game.

You may need to look at that possibility.

What antivirus program do you have and do you have any other security software installed at all ?

In some rare cases, there can be other processes that still get in the way, even if such security software is disabled, as disabling the parent does not disable the child processes of that parent.

Programs Which May Interfere with Steam

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=217120421

I only have the built in Microsoft antivirus tool, the game was working perfectly fine then stopped working once i was done.. Also, does that fix with regedit only work for Deus Ex?

[The Giving One]

Sorry, I added some edits above after you quoted me. See those, please.

You will find that error in just about any game forum, so have a look at other cases in the search result I posted for you above, and check the programs link also, please.

EDIT..

Reinstall DirectX also.

[Legionkingz]

The Giving One eredeti hozzászólása:

Sorry, I added some edits above after you quoted me. See those, please.

You will find that error in just about any game forum, so have a look at other cases in the search result I posted for you above, and check the programs link also, please.

EDIT..

Reinstall DirectX also.

I've checked the forums and so far nothing really hasn't helped along with reinstalling DirectX.. It has to be a software conflicting issue with DirectX, just not sure what it could be..

[The Giving One]

I am only providing theories so far here, that it may be software related.

Also, I am not "totally sure" you did the DDU process correctly. I did not see where you said you uninstalled all GPU drivers from a normal Windows boot, THEN boot into safe mode and use DDU to clean out the remnants. Unless you did it that way, and if so, I apologize.

If you want to explore software possibilities..............

1. Take screenshots of all of the programs you have installed on your computer. Control panel then programs/programs and features. (Windows 7,8,8.1) or "apps" (Windows 10 click "Start" (Windows icon on bottom left))

2. Click Windows Start and type in msconfig and run that resulting process. Go to the services tab and check the box on bottom "Hide all Microsoft services". Take screenshots of all that is left.

3. Then go to the startup tab on top of that same window (Task Manager in W10). Take screenshots of all that there also. Don't forget to scroll down if needed and get everything in the shots, please.

Post all the links to the above screenshots here, using a file hosting site such as imgur.com, which is free to use.