Lights And Magic 2020 年 1 月 6 日 上午 11:20
Every Unreal Engine game asks me to install DirectX
I'm running DirectX 12.0 on my windows 10 pc but every time I try to run any Unreal Engine (specifically 4) game, it asks me to install DirectX. When I click to install, it just tells me it's already installed, asks if I want to actually uninstall it and the game never starts.

Is there a way to get past that?
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Zekiran 2020 年 1 月 6 日 上午 11:25 
Have you just tried clicking 'no' when it asks?
Muppet among Puppets 2020 年 1 月 6 日 上午 11:26 
Its normal to see a game installing a relative dx at first start
Zekiran 2020 年 1 月 6 日 上午 11:27 
Are you trying to install this game on a different drive than the DX would be on?
Cathulhu 2020 年 1 月 6 日 上午 11:57 
引用自 Zekiran
Are you trying to install this game on a different drive than the DX would be on?
How is that relevant? I have dozens of DirectX 9/10/11 games on a different drive, even harddisk than DirectX.
As DirectX is a component from your OS, any application, no matter where installed, can access it.
Lights And Magic 2020 年 1 月 6 日 下午 12:30 
引用自 Zekiran
Have you just tried clicking 'no' when it asks?

There is no "no" option. I can choose to either install or cancel the game launch. When I click "install" it asks me to uninstall DirectX or cancel the game launch.

This is a picture of the error message it gives
https://imgur.com/a/csSYQ7J
最後修改者:Lights And Magic; 2020 年 1 月 6 日 下午 12:37
Muppet among Puppets 2020 年 1 月 6 日 下午 1:34 
Install it. Should not have bad consequences.
Lights And Magic 2020 年 1 月 6 日 下午 3:01 
Install it. Should not have bad consequences.
I did! But the dialog still comes up and now when I click "install" it pulls up another dialog that gives me the choice to uninstall directx or to exit the game launch.
最後修改者:Lights And Magic; 2020 年 1 月 6 日 下午 3:20
Muppet among Puppets 2020 年 1 月 6 日 下午 4:05 
What happens if you delete the installscript vdf from the folder of affected games?
Lights And Magic 2020 年 1 月 6 日 下午 9:44 
What happens if you delete the installscript vdf from the folder of affected games?
Where would that be located? I searched in the game folder in ...\steamapps\common\[game name]\ and nothing came up.
Lights And Magic 2020 年 1 月 7 日 上午 1:23 
What happens if you delete the installscript vdf from the folder of affected games?
The game apparently does not have one
Iceira 2020 年 1 月 7 日 上午 1:35 
maybe talk with game devs, sure its thirdpart app, but game need them, and most be sure they are added.

but as you point out keep happend , and all files and content is actual that games devs responsible to get it work, they might have made a mistake or cant see first time runs anymore.

so point is still not a steam issue , but a game related issue. and steam has no right in other game company files.

( and maybe this is part of steam redistributable tool app, as i recall directX is run last at the scripts. ) and now you are caught in maybe error is already install VC but no directX file first time run is made, dont forget im guessing here. but its still game devs problem.

but i have not seen this problem myself ( and on laptop with no directX 12 card ) so thats why i cant see it.

ps.
do tell game names, only other with same game can test this for you.
Unreal Engine is in many places and you dont want work with my game, you dont have.
and people with directX11 and lower, require highend graphic card with DX12
you might even want to tell graphic card model name.
to get ride of entry like gtx560 , work fine here...

ps.
if nvidia card user, use advance install to make a clean install then checkbox is there.
this is to make sure driver do work and directx point in the right place in the OS.
i had to reinstall my core driver after a windows core update. ( so you could have something like that also here. )


last thing dont OC while you testing this, you want a stable pc with no issue. no game mods
also, Original content with the game. ( this is to avoid user own faulth. )

many forget crashed game, has been seen to reset ingame-configuration before.
最後修改者:Iceira; 2020 年 1 月 7 日 上午 2:01
Panchito Dahmer 💀 2020 年 1 月 7 日 下午 5:34 
nice
Lights And Magic 2020 年 1 月 7 日 下午 11:14 
Okay so apparently I got the game to run by simply going into the game file and running as administrator!
Iceira 2020 年 1 月 7 日 下午 11:59 
引用自 LightsAndMagic
Okay so apparently I got the game to run by simply going into the game file and running as administrator!

have you raised the security setting, or lost steamclientservice right. ?

see under service steamclientservice most be there.

you can try properties on steam.exe and set administrator on, this is so you dont have to do it with all other games that need this.
最後修改者:Iceira; 2020 年 1 月 8 日 上午 12:03
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