Codifer Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Does anyone know of a safe site from which this dll file can be downloaded? Dragon Age 2 seems to want to have it in the system32 folder. I have tried googling and there are great numbers of sites who vow that they do have it (none are Microsloth). I have down loaded a couple of promising ones but they seem to do nothing unless I promise to make something or other my default browser or promise to watch this or that porn and they do indeed install all sorts of crap onto my machine .... but NOT the fracking d3dx9_43 dll. I have Win 7 with Dx 11 and I do have all sorts of d3dx9_xx dll files under System32.... but not the elusive _43 dll. I am about ready to chuck the whole idea of playing the demo of Dragon Age2. It just aint worth the grief. Sorry for the rant. Life awaits my participation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shmishmou Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Have you tried the run command "Regsvr32"?This is a way i fixed an issue i had with another PC:Copy D3Dx9_43.dll to your system32 folderOpen run then type Regsvr32 D3Dx9_43.dll and press entre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codifer Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 Thank you Shmishmou, I shall try that in a bit. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codifer Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 (edited) No luck. Another garden path. Another can of worms with hoops and dead ends and a few pits. Windoze 7 has its own protocol and, even when I tried the super secret suffix in the command line, it just loves to tell me ...."Nope!". I did download from Microsloth the full d3dx9.0c which, accordong to theory, can be installed along side Dx11. But I have not tried to install it. I do NOT want to jeopardize my current ability to play DA:O. So I will pass on DA 2. It is not worth it. Thanks anyway Edited February 23, 2011 by Codifer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codifer Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 I installed d3dx9.0c anyway. Seems to work and, most importantly, so does DA:O. If any have similar or same problem, the discussion is here: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/294/index/6147820 Cheers and all that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 (edited) Yup, I had the same problem. The link to the BSN provides the link to the Microsoft DX download site, so here it is directly: "DX Updates on microsoft.com". This will get you a small (250KB) program which is used to check your system and cue-up the download of the most recent DX update. On my Win7 rig that meant getting exactly the one the DA2 Demo said was missing. The file was about 10MB, and when it finished installing Win7 said it might not have installed correctly, but it had. :thumbsup: Oh man! There's another thread on the BSN with an even faster way to resolve this: BWBamboo wrote... For those who get the "d3dx9_43.dll is missing" error message on starting the demo: Go to the folder you installed the Demo to, go to "redist", then "DirectX" and start DXSetup.exe. The files are all there, there just seems to be a problem with the installation. Link to original post: "d3dx9_43.dll Really is in the Demo".) Edited February 24, 2011 by Thandal Better Info added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codifer Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Heh heh... I got that same "Did not install correctly" message and I had installed dx 9.0c. Luckily there were no razor blades nearby. I did try to open the DA 2 folder..... but it wouldn't. Dragon Age still says dx11. As long as plays. At any rate, all is now well. After a quick look see at DA 2 I have come back to revel in DA:O.... more comfortable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Heh heh... I got that same "Did not install correctly" message and I had installed dx 9.0c. Luckily there were no razor blades nearby. I did try to open the DA 2 folder..... but it wouldn't. Dragon Age still says dx11. As long as plays. At any rate, all is now well. After a quick look see at DA 2 I have come back to revel in DA:O.... more comfortable.Not sure what you meant by "tried to open the DA2 [Demo] folder... but it wouldn't."The path on my Win7/64-bit rig is: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dragon Age 2 Demo\redist\DirectX" and the file is "DXSetup.exe", just as described in the post on the BSN. The Demo does NOT actually include materials that use DX11, (the full game does) but the Demo requires the latest DX runtime libraries for the elements it does contain, hence the error message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codifer Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Thandal, Yes, that was my mistake. I was trying to open the wrong DA 2 file. Yesterday morning was busy and bad and I had a cat hair in my coffee. I was fairly out of patience and, had I waited for your solution, life would have been better. Also, I apologize for the rant (but I still like DA"O better than DA 2). Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRoc Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Thanks Dragoners,I had the same issue obviously, so I Googled a fix and the first option I chose was this thread and as usual, I found my answer. The first thing I tried was the "For those who get the "d3dx9_43.dll is missing" error message on starting the demo: Go to the folder you installed the Demo to, go to "redist", then "DirectX" and start DXSetup.exe. The files are all there, there just seems to be a problem with the installation." fix and it worked nicely. This forum is brilliant, as are the people on here! Cheers. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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