Please help can not play games.

[DaltonRyanMcafee]

Hello I am new to pc gaming so I do not know much about pcs as I am a console player. I have a few games and when I try to play any of them it says running acts like it is about to start then it does nothing.

[RAY Abyssal]

Yeah Dalton some game use other programs that is use for playing the game if not install the game would black screen or do nothing I had problems like that when I started PC gaming sometime steam has trouble installing stuff like "DirectX 9 to 12" or "Net Fireworks 4.5 to 4.6" for some games like rust I would nerver understand why I recommend you look up "DirectX 9-12"
and "Net Fireworks 4.5 - 4.6" I can leave a links but remember its nerver safe click hyper links on steam, I recommend looking it up yourself

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=30653

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=17431

[The Giving One]

See this support page and check all links found within that page as well.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6218-USFX-5568

[Henchman (Booger Boy Variant)]

or just try restarting your computer, sometimes the simplest answer is the right one

[DaltonRyanMcafee]

Originally posted by Jake:

Yeah Dalton some game use other programs that is use for playing the game if not install the game would black screen or do nothing I had problems like that when I started PC gaming sometime steam has trouble installing stuff like "DirectX 9 to 12" or "Net Fireworks 4.5 to 4.6" for some games like rust I would nerver understand why I recommend you look up "DirectX 9-12"
and "Net Fireworks 4.5 - 4.6" I can leave a links but remember its nerver safe click hyper links on steam, I recommend looking it up yourself

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=30653

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=17431

I have both downloaded the highest virsions it says and i get this message when trying to launch it still 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

[DaltonRyanMcafee]

Originally posted by Jake:

Yeah Dalton some game use other programs that is use for playing the game if not install the game would black screen or do nothing I had problems like that when I started PC gaming sometime steam has trouble installing stuff like "DirectX 9 to 12" or "Net Fireworks 4.5 to 4.6" for some games like rust I would nerver understand why I recommend you look up "DirectX 9-12"
and "Net Fireworks 4.5 - 4.6" I can leave a links but remember its nerver safe click hyper links on steam, I recommend looking it up yourself

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=30653

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=17431

Okay so I checked to see if my stuff was up to date and steam said this but I am not sure what to do.
DRIVER UPDATE
UNKNOWN VENDOR


Steam has determined that your video drivers are out of date, however we have not been able to determine which drivers you need. Please contact your video card vendor for further information. For your convenience, we have provided a list of the most common vendor driver pages below.

ATI
Intel
NVIDIA
S3
Trident
Matrox Graphics
Tseng Labs
Cirrus Logic

[RAY Abyssal]

Try reading through this http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/828923952190689839/
and this
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/618463106371934675/

[The Giving One]

"Failed to create D3D Device!"

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=772