HELP DX9C

Post by **Awenyx** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:59 pm

I followed the instructions on "HEADLINES" to check and update to DX9C but when I try to log into EQ I get bounced back to desktop....any ideas????

Post by **Svarien** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:24 pm

try redoing it i had same prob but second time i loaded it came up fine

Post by **Taunto** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:04 pm

Did you restart after you installed it and run dxdiag to make sure it installed correctly?

Post by **calarea** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:41 pm

OMG HELP

I have downloaded it several times. I have restarted my computer several times. Still nothing. After EQ patcher it says i am missing d3dx9-30.dll. I have look in dxdiad i can not find this file but i do see other dx9.0 files. Any suggestions?

Moonchild

Post by **calarea** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:44 pm

I have even saved 9.0 to my desktop. I run it and go through user agreement then it brings up this box that says plz type location where you want to place the extracted files. what do i do?

Post by **calarea** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:48 pm

okay i do not have the new 9.0 i have 9.0c. What am i doing wrong?

Moonchild

Post by **Awenyx** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:18 am

Took me 3 times downloading to get this to load

here is how I did it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads
Open file DirectX and download DirectX April 2006 REDISTRIBUTE (was the third file on list)
Saved to EQ file then Open file and RUN
Reboot computer
Did the same thing on 3 computers and all are working fine now

THANK YOU for the help

Post by **fazin** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:07 pm

don't ahve to reboot computer.

I installed the dx9c just fine and I was able to get in EQ np.

Here's a list of steps that may help you

The microsoft site genuine advantage thing may be the bottleneck. So when you install the activex control thing. Wait a few min. If you get any popup or whatnot. Try the alternate method link. If it don't give you the code to validate. Go back and install the activex again. Keep trying until it let you download what you need.

Once you download the redistru file (the one that say april 2006 or as such.) It's a big file. about 52mb. do this while you're doing laundry, cook dinner, whatever if you don't have DSL/Cable modem. Once it's downloaded. here's the steps

Step 1.) Create a file on the desktop. title it dx9c or whatever.

Step 2.) Download the file into that folder. Once that's done. Open your dx9c folder.

Step 3.) look for the DX Setup .exe and Open it.

Step 4.) let it do it thing.

Step 5.) Do it again one more time. (for some reason the 2nd time actually install more files /shrug)

Step 6.) you're done. Go play EQ.

Post by **Noircogi** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:07 pm

Even simpler method:

Browse to www.microsoft.com/directx
Click "Get the Latest DirectX Here"
Put in your speed and language, click continue, click download, click run

I didn't even have to reboot on the two systems which were running the older version of DX9.

Post by **Ailerdar** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:22 am

The redistributable does not require WGA

Post by **Succuba** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:03 pm

If you just goto the microsoft website and search for directx it should install automatically for you. However, if you have a bootleg version of winxp with a bad serial number you have to type in that long http address that eq posted to get the redistributable version. Make a new folder where you keep your backups and download the redistributable into it then run the setup file inside the directory where you downloaded the files too. I can't remember if the file is zipped. If it is you can just unzip it into a new temporary folder and then run the setup file in the extracted files in the new temporary folder. You can then delete the extracted files because you already saved the compressed zip file where you keep your backup files.