First ever Direct X 9 error.
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
Damn, that's too bad because I think I found the reason behind this failure error.
This is either the work of overzealous sniffing by Secorum, and/or naughty EA decided to put spyware on my PC (via that stupid launcher idea). I had to uninstall everything, and nothing would still install correctly. Thinking of Battlefield 2142 and the retarded spyware shit EA included, on a whim, I ran Spybot, and surprise, surprise. Wiped it out, and things are installing correctly so far.
If Secorum decides to be an asshat again though, I don't know what to do (I don't think even YASU is working in this case) because it's not like I can wipe off my husband's UltraISO and Nero.
jolrei:
I got exactly the same message re: DirectX 9 not being found.
In my case, the shortcut I was using was incorrectly created. Test game by starting up directly from the Sims2EP6.exe in your BV sub-directory in program files. If that works, create a new shortcut to that file. Not sure how I corrupted the shortcut, but recreating it solved the problem.
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
It's working fine now (with no CC of any kind; we'll find out about that in a few minutes). I'm not so sure it was a "corrupted file" or a bad shortcut. As I said, I had to wipe out some new spyware (that I swear popped up on my system only after BV), and now everything works correctly. Strange (but not too strange considering this is EA we're talking about here).
kacidama:
I've been getting the same message - although I have played BV for 2 weeks (with a few crashes - but I think that is more to do with lack of virtual memory) I cannot load the game at all.
The only difference being that I had recently installed Avast - which I uninstalled and managed to load the game but it froze after 2 minutes of playing (I was in build mode) - now it has reverted to the Directx message. I tried installing a no-cd crack but am still getting the same message :(
Processor: AMD Duron(tm) MMX (1.3GHz)
Memory: 512MB RAM
Page File: 405MB used, 844MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
(Direct X is reporting no problems found.)
Card name: ATI Radeon 9600 Atlantis
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Marvin Kosh:
If you've recently installed the latest ATI drivers, I recommend rolling back to an earlier release. They don't appear to work with the 9600 at all. I know, I spent the better part of a couple of hours uninstalling display drivers and then re-installing them >:(
I also recommend actually going to the page for Display in the Dxdiag tool and trying the Direct3D test, because the cursory scan of your graphics driver doesn't actually render anything on screen.
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