Knightofthe7shades Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 I realize this is probably not the best place to post this problem, but to me, this is the best, most reliable place to get a reply. Even so, it DOES affect my Oblivion copy too! XD Also, people here usually actually know what they're talking about.ANYWAYS.... a few weeks back I was trying to get this one game that was having trouble starting up by trying to install directx for my windows xp. In my inpatients, confusion, and rage, I tried deleting some files that I figured may be conflicting with my version of directx i was trying to install. So I searched my computer for directx in the filename, and came up with a bunch of results. Many of them were in a place called "WINDOWS." I don't really remember anything more specific than that as it has been a few weeks now. With me being stupid, i deleted every file in the search results. I am more than sure that's when I messed everything up.Something that may help you, I have played oblivion a lot, no problem starting it up (aside from those times we've all had with mods =___=) until I tried playing it after I deleted those files. Now when I try to start Oblivion, it stops before I can launch the game/go into "fullscreen mode." Instead, I get a message saying "Failed to initialize renderer. NiXAdapterDesc: :GetDeviceCaps () failed.So I tried to start up Portal 2 to see if that would work, which it didn't. Like with Oblivion, it worked flawlessly before i deleted those files, but now it doesn't work.I suspect I need to get those files from the "WINDOWS" section of my computer back. Again I have Windows XP, so I don't think I can use the Windows 7 version of the files. If I am right, let me know and I will send you my Skype or email so you can send me the files. I will be keeping my eye on this post, so if you need any additional information, I will try my best to give it to you as fast as I can. Thank you very very much in advance! I don't know how to say it... but thank you :D ALSO!!!!!!! sorry i forgot something possibly important. maybe not, idk, but anyways, Before all this mess of me not being able to play games, trying to install directx, and that one game having trouble starting up, I HAVE NOT installed any version of drectx before I was trying to fix that one game having trouble starting up (the game is an old game called Beach Head or something. it's an old game). Any files that may have helped Oblivion start up before may have been files already installed from my windows copy, though i am not sure. If this part confused you, then pretend I never wrote this part. >.< Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubiousintent Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 You need to re-install the Directx9 End-User Runtime files from 'here'. It's an installer, so you should use the 'Add/Remove Program' control panel to install it once you have downloaded it. -Dubious- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knightofthe7shades Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 You need to re-install the Directx9 End-User Runtime files from 'here'. It's an installer, so you should use the 'Add/Remove Program' control panel to install it once you have downloaded it. -Dubious-Thanks, you helped me at least organize a bit, but it sadly didn't fix the problem. I installed it and I suppose it just does its thing once ive installed it, I am not familiar with DirectX (ironically). As of now, Im just trying to find someone who still has Windows XP and let them give me the files I might be missing.Still, thanks for trying to help me :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubiousintent Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 (edited) Generally, yes once it installs you can't normally tell any different. In your DirectX installation, it includes a tool called 'dxdiag.exe'. You should find it in your 'C:\Windows\system32' folder. Run it and it will tell you if any DirectX components are missing, and it has tests you can run to tell if it is working correctly and how well each component is performing. You will find there are many files that make up DirectX and they do not all have the same version numbers and none of them are version '9c'. 'DirectX9c' is a package version, a package of many files with their own version series. Are you sure your remaining problem is with your WinXP OS, and not just that you need to re-install Oblivion (or other games)? Some specifics as to why you think it still isn't would be useful, now that you have DirectX9c re-installed. (Recovering from this kind of situation takes a step-by-step, fix and test 'one thing at a time' approach if you can't simply revert to a backup.) Do you have a system restore point from before you started deleting files? Reverting to that might be your easiest solution. (Google the restore process.) Failing that, it sounds like you do not have an installation CD for WinXP? Did you buy a name brand machine, like HP or Dell, someone that has a web presence? If so, contact them about how you might repair your installation. If they didn't provide you with a 'system restore' CD, they may have the necessary files in a hidden partition on your drive. -Dubious- Edited September 3, 2012 by dubiousintent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Does your video card support the directx version you are trying to install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubiousintent Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 (edited) Does your video card support the directx version you are trying to install?Good point. Presumably so, because it was working correctly before. But assumptions are dangerous. In a PM he tells me the v-card is an AMD Radeon 6500 HD series, which I checked supports DirectX 11 and 3D. It's my understanding that the hardware should be backwards compatible, but I have little direct experience with Radeon. Of course he can't run DX11 on WinXP. He ran 'dxdiag' and it reported all files present and okay, tests reported no problems, and the only things abnormal was the "Hardware accelerated Direct3D 9+ is not available because the display driver does not support it" and "Direct3D functionality not available." I suggested he install PSI and have it update his drivers. Hopefully that will catch anything else at the same time. He wasn't sure if he had restore points enabled, so I pointed him to the MS article and he is supposed to try and see if he can find a restore point. Waiting to hear how that goes. -Dubious- Edited September 4, 2012 by dubiousintent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knightofthe7shades Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 All credit to Dubious, I have fixed the problem. :D Props to him and I thank him once more for helping me out. After this whole mess, I honestly couldn't have felt more stupid XDSOLUTION TO MY PROBLEM:The reason I am posting this in the first place is because Dubious and I felt it was necessary to post the solution on here. So if anyone happens to come across this forum with a problem similar to mine, you may just have discovered your salvation. ;) Anyways, the problem that I had was that I deleted some very important files on accident that happened to be critical for gaming. I was not able to play any non web-based games. Specifically, Oblivion gave me a message saying it failed to initialize the renderer. If you happen to have backup files, obviously use those. Maybe you got lucky and still have the files in your recycling bin. If not, you will have to do what I had to do. Please note first that I have Windows XP. I imagine Windows 7 is similar in the repairing process, but I am not very familiar with Windows 7, so don't quote me on that. You also MUST have administrator access to do this. Anyways, you simply need to click "Start," got to, "All Programs," find your "Accessories" folder, then find your "System Tools" folder inside. Then you find a program that says "System Restore." Click on it. A window should pop up, and a bullet that says "Restore my computer to an earlier time" that is filled in. If not, click on the bullet. Then click next. After that you simply choose a date on the calender you want to restore to, then click next. PLEASE NOTE your computer does not remember several months in the past, otherwise you would probably have little to no disk space remaining. The rest of the process is as straightforward as possible. As it says, it does not delete music, pictures, films, etc created after the restore point you chose. Be sure you have around 30 minutes of spare time to do this, so you can keep surveillance on your computer to make sure everything is going smoothly. If the restore point did not work, you either didn't go far back enough, or this is simply not the solution to the problem you have. If it does not work, try to figure out EXACTLY what files are missing. For example, you do not want to re-install your Windows when it could just be a problem with you DirectX.I hope this fixes your problem if you happen to need this. If you are reading this, then I also want to tell you have a good day! Make sure you don't carelessly delete files like I did again :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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