Failed to find directx 9 compatible adapter
Lerf:
I am NOT using a noCD patch and the only info I can find on MATY on this problem mentions a problem with where that's installed, but that's obviously not the problem here.
I was trying to locate a bad recolor file via the binary system. The game crashed, as I expected, but when I got back to desktop the shortcut icon to M&G Stuff was gone, so I made a new one and after I'd shifted half the files in the folder, deleted my .cache files, and tried to restart the game I got a "Failed to enumerate any DirectX 9 compatible graphics adapters in this system!"
I also tried renaming my MyDocuments/EA Games/Sims 2 file to see if that was the problem.
Now, the graphics adapter had been there and locatable maybe three minutes before. I tried restarting, and cold booting. I reinstalled the latest NVidia driver, and I even loaded up Oblivion to see if maybe the something had fried the graphics card. It ran fine. I cleaned the M&G DVD. No luck.
I'm using Windows 7, with an NVidia GEForce 9800 GT.
J. M. Pescado:
Failed to find graphics card tend to be a side effect of what happens if you push ALT-CRTL-DEL durng startup, sending it to the lock screen, or do something that eliminates the DX draw surface-thingy. This is not normally a condition that persists past the immediate cause, let alone restart, though.
Lerf:
I'm sure I didn't do that. I never minimize during startup--if it takes too long I read a book or something. And in this case I only had some recolors in so startup takes about 5 minutes. I did minimize when the game crashed, though. It was the only way to exit the game.
And the problem persists even after shutting the computer down overnight.
J. M. Pescado:
I have no idea what you may have done to cause this. Do you have some kind of weird setup, possibly involving multiple monitors which may or may not still be present? You could always try reinstalling the drivers and/or game.
Lerf:
Nope, nothing weird at all in my setup.
And reinstalling is my next option, I guess. I already reinstalled the new driver. That was about the first thing I tried after restarting the system didn't work.
Edited to add:
A complete reinstall was the only answer. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling M&G and the problem persisted, so I spent the day taking everything out and putting it back. It runs OK for the moment, though the missing M&G icon reappeared, having renamed itself to the same name as a folder I'd made just after the last crash and my attempt to restart the game. It turned up only after I'd uninstalled everything and had only gotten as far as reinstalling the base game.
So far everything works.
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