DirectX Errors... IN EVERY GAME?!

[Space Coward]

Yup. Not quite sure what happened, but today, NONE of my games feel like working. Not a single one. I've tried reinstalling DirectX, but none of my games are working. L4D2, Sanctum 2, DoW II Retribution, Fallout 3 GotY, all just failing to launch! What the hell's going on?

[supertrooper225]

Are your drivers updated?

[Space Coward]

Originally posted by supertrooper225:

Are your drivers updated?

They were, but as of a few hours ago, nothing works. Is it possibly a driver corruption? Just Cause 2 works fine (with some strange bugs) and nothing else will even launch, despite trying to reinstall the common redistributables for each game.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Kill-Cam Celebrity:

Originally posted by supertrooper225:

Are your drivers updated?

They were, but as of a few hours ago, nothing works. Is it possibly a driver corruption? Just Cause 2 works fine (with some strange bugs) and nothing else will even launch, despite trying to reinstall the common redistributables for each game.

gpu/mainboard drivers.

directx and runtimes are no drivers.

[Space Coward]

So, what should I do about it? Still no luck, except with DirectX 10 games like Just Cause 2 and Bioshock.

I'm getting a WD Blue and Windows 8.1 64-bit soon anyway, but this still kind of sucks.

[Satoru]

did you upgrade to windows 10?

I'd go with a clean unisntall of your video drivers, reboot, reinstall, reboot no matter what

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Kill-Cam Celebrity:

So, what should I do about it? Still no luck, except with DirectX 10 games like Just Cause 2 and Bioshock.

I'm getting a WD Blue and Windows 8.1 64-bit soon anyway, but this still kind of sucks.

reinstall update gpu/mainboard drivers, as said. directx is just an interface. if your gpu drivers are messed up, this will also result in dx errors.

[Space Coward]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by Kill-Cam Celebrity:

So, what should I do about it? Still no luck, except with DirectX 10 games like Just Cause 2 and Bioshock.

I'm getting a WD Blue and Windows 8.1 64-bit soon anyway, but this still kind of sucks.

reinstall update gpu/mainboard drivers, as said. directx is just an interface. if your gpu drivers are messed up, this will also result in dx errors.

I've done so with 15.7.1, which was working fine earlier. It didn't help.

What's strange is that while DX9/DX11 titles fail, both Bioshock 1 and Just Cause 2 (DX10) were fine (though fullscreen was messed up).

[Satoru]

Its AMD

Uninsatll/reboot/reinstall/reboot

Their CCC drivers have always been 'iffy' :P

[saeshell]

Upgrade drivers

[Space Coward]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Its AMD

Uninsatll/reboot/reinstall/reboot

Their CCC drivers have always been 'iffy' :P

Tried it twice, still no luck. I've never had this problem before, and I've had this card all Summer.

Originally posted by xseashell:

Upgrade drivers

I've been at the latest version (15.7.1 Omega) for quite a while now.

[R1p0]

Problem with DirectX??
Try downloading Directx end-user runtime web installer from official Windows site, run as administrator if shows error, try the video.
Best of luck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yVciwuoK_Y&index=13&list=PLgzU3Pr4BCw066-wk7YNSNMB6wctxKoD1

[Space Coward]

Originally posted by J4ckTh3R!pp3r:

Problem with DirectX.......
Try this downloading Directx end-user runtime web installer from official Windows site, run as administrator if shows error, try the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yVciwuoK_Y&index=13&list=PLgzU3Pr4BCw066-wk7YNSNMB6wctxKoD1

Tried it before. No error message, but no results either.

To be honest, I'm not sure I'll get it fixed. I'm switching to a WD Blue and Windows 8.1 soon, so it's not a big deal.

[Space Coward]

Found the problem! Some Windows update didn't install properly, so deleting them and reinstalling them fixed it. I just tested it, Fallout 3 (which previously gave me an "Unknown D3D Error while creating the Gamebryo renderer") got past the launcher without a problem.

[R1p0]

Originally posted by Kill-Cam Celebrity:

Found the problem! Some Windows update didn't install properly, so deleting them and reinstalling them fixed it. I just tested it, Fallout 3 (which previously gave me an "Unknown D3D Error while creating the Gamebryo renderer") got past the launcher without a problem.

Good job man, glad to hear you solved your problem, don't delete topic, it could help someone!

[Space Coward]

Originally posted by J4ckTh3R!pp3r:

Originally posted by Kill-Cam Celebrity:

Found the problem! Some Windows update didn't install properly, so deleting them and reinstalling them fixed it. I just tested it, Fallout 3 (which previously gave me an "Unknown D3D Error while creating the Gamebryo renderer") got past the launcher without a problem.

Good job man, glad to hear you solved your problem, don't delete topic, it could help someone!

Hope it helps them more than me, I was about to fresh-install Windows anyway since I only had 500GB of space total and a 32-bit OS.