A little help for the victim of newness
Happythoughts:
same story different day right. I buy a new pc from cyberpower, research hearing wonderful things about windows 7. I think great now my newer games will have a decent os to play on, BUT the only game that I ever play on a more constant basis, is my sims2 no offense to the sims3. As good as the new options and such are, I cannot get past the unrealistic looking characters I keep seeing in videos and trailers for the game.
Moving on to my real issue. I have the original dvd for the sims2, and my ep's and sp's are all downloaded from torrent that ran fine on the xp but my pc just couldn't handle the graphics and memory to play at 'my' expectations so I bought a new pc.
Again getting to my issue, everything installed fine to my knowledge, using daemon tools I installed all my hacked ep's and sp's without a hitch. I launched with my cracked no cd and recieved a "no directx9 adapter compatible try updating this and your drivers".....so i went and got the directx 9c and directx11feb2010redist and updated my ati 5450.
The directx did not give me a destination path to place the exctracted files so I am unsure where to really place those, and the update for graphics card did not fix the problem. I also ran the crack under xp mode and administrater just to be sure I wasnt overlooking the obvious noob related delays of gameplaying fun.
If anyone knows where I need to place the directx files, this will help me in that regard, BUT I am also thinking the no cd crack may be the problem and if their are newer ones for mansions and gardens, i have dl'd a few from diff sites and I receive the same errors as before.
My system specs are not the issue here of that I am positive, my ram is 6gb, my processor is 17 930 2.8 ghz , with an asus p6t se x58 crossfire tripl chanl ddr3.
**also I updated my windows7, and spent many days looking for solutions and looking at posts of others with this same error message. Any help even if it means the obvious, buy them legally replies are welcome just throw me a rope of any kind.
soozelwoozel:
Ok, I just about got through the first couple of sentences, but then the TL;DR and comma abuse assaulted my mental faculties and I had to remove to my safe space. Plz to be using some grammar and maybe, controversially, some paragraphs and get back to us.
morriganrant:
Dude, your spiel is really hard to read. But, from what I can gleam from it, you are having Directx9 issues on Win7, who is supposed to be backwards compatible with it's Directx11, but really isn't, is that right? Why don't you use Windows Directx Updater? Or is your OS pirated as well?
Try the stuff here: http://community.livejournal.com/thesims2/6810578.html
and here: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/restoredx9dll.htm
Happythoughts:
sorry for my poor writing structure, I tried to fix that just now. yes I read about how directx11 is supposed include all functions from previous releases too. My husband plays delta force black hawk down on his new pc, which in essence is the same machine and it works without a problem. I will check your links as soon as I come back from the store.
Also I would still like to know where the directx files need to be placed. I was told once they are located in window/system32/dirx but my windows doesnt have a dirx folder, but I did a search and found some of them in a different folder in system32/winsx or something to that nature, I'll update as soon as I return and check.
I looked for an automatic updater for directx on my pc and came up empty but the two links you gave me were a good start for a possible solution...and LOL at the pirated os, its paid for I'm not one who usually 'steals' anything. Also I've never played the game online, this is completely for my private enjoyment.
**bodyshop loads just fine, this is why I believe it may have something to do with my no cd crack.
jezzer:
Why in God's green would you be MANUALLY placing DirectX files?
Please to be for to going to Windows Updater and let IT do it FOR YOU before your computer asplode and we all turn into floating, circling heads, laughing and pointing at you, like on "Carrie".
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