Help Fast Plz!!!!

EthixusTheGreat

EthixusTheGreat

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Ok.

I play Lord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II - Rise Of THe Witch King alot
and my friend wants to get it so we can play it with each other(he just has Lord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II not the ROTWK expansion)

All i know aobut his computer is:
eMachines
Athlon 3200+
1gb RAM DDR400 (512x2 dual channel)
120gb HARDDRIVE
6600gt video card


ANYWAY... his games used to play fine (he playes Counter Strike and Battle For Middle Earth II). Now they dont. (this happened back in summer they stopped working... we dont know what caused it...)

WHAT HAPPENS: he starts the game... the screen that says "Battle For MIddle Earth" comes up in the center of the screen like normal... then when the game would usually go into full-screen a black screen flickers then closes out and a dialog box pops up that says something to the effect:

"make sure newest version of directX is installed and make sure hardware is accelerated"

something about those things...

now
i know he has the newest version of directX is installed because he installed it and we did that like 5 times...

i went to the display options to check the hardware acceleration... it was a full...


what is the problem????? help?
he is hesitant to buying the expansion because he doesn't think it will work...



Edit: THIS IS A FAMILY COMPUTER HE IS USING SO REFORMATTING IS NOT AN OPTION :(
 
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have you tried updating the video card drivers?

Forceware 93.71 win Xp


and when you go to Start -> Run and in that box you type dxdiag.. such a screen should appear, does it say no problems found on the 2nd tab?

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here is a pic of what i mean (I just made it, and on my pc everything works just fine :) )
 
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Boomer said:
did he try reinstalling the game?
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i doubt thats the problem because all his games have the problem (and he even did reisntall this one)

and i guess once and a while videos have the same problem


Archangel said:
have you tried updating the video card drivers?

Forceware 93.71 win Xp


and when you go to Start -> Run and in that box you type dxdiag.. such a screen should appear, does it say no problems found on the 2nd tab?

untitled-11.jpg


here is a pic of what i mean (I just made it, and on my pc everything works just fine :) )
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ok
we reinstalled the driver...
and then we did the dxdiag thing u told us to do... this is what we got:

Several files (dimap.dll, diactfrm.dll, gcdef.dll) are old versions, which could cause problems.

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is that what you think is wrong?
and what can be done to fix it?
 
bump... srry if i am being annoying... i just REALLY wanna figure this out... we have been trying for a long time now... and googled like nuts and haven't figured it out... now we are determined to fix this.... & IK there is someone here smart enough to help...


plzzzzzz
 
Archangel said:
you really have to download DirectX9.0c, and install it.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.mspx

if your DXdiag say's some files are old or missing,.. somthing is definately not right, just download dx9.0c and install it (i assume his windows is legit, since its an emachines, wich come standard with windows pre-installed, right?
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did that... still the same problems... still the same result on the file check and game still crashes...

and yes his windows is legit for sure

is there a way to download those files and replace them with the newest version?

and can anyone interpret what that game crash means?
 
well.. directx is an interface program between the application (the game) and the grafic's card driver. and it looks like that is causing the problem here..
 
Archangel said:
well.. directx is an interface program between the application (the game) and the grafic's card driver. and it looks like that is causing the problem here..
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k

well we tried this program called DirectX Happy Uninstall... which rolls back to directX 8

that didn't work cus we got this message


dx backup files can not be found. opetate cant continue.


could we delete the files that are outdated and then try installing directX 9 again?
 
have you tried installing it while the pc is in safe mode? in safe mode the grafic's card drive isnt enables iirc,.. so it should make a difference i gues, ofcourse, i could be wrong on that.
 
Archangel said:
have you tried installing it while the pc is in safe mode? in safe mode the grafic's card drive isnt enables iirc,.. so it should make a difference i gues, ofcourse, i could be wrong on that.
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ok i tried installing DX in safe mode... i download the application from microsoft for installing DirectX... then i run the application in safe mode... but in safe mode it can't access the internet so i get a problem that said it couldn 't download the files....

help!

and when i run DX Diagnostic Tool
i still have this in my file report

Several files (dimap.dll, diactfrm.dll, gcdef.dll) are old versions, which could cause problems.
 
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is that normal?
and we have installed Dx9 a million times.... =[


and i downloaded those files and put them in the folder replacing the other files... didn't do anything....
 
ok so
i used thiis program called DirectX Happy Uninstall... it rolled back direct X... backed it up.... and installed the new directX...


now everything is perfect according to his DirectX Diagnostic Tool... and directX seems to be right now

except we get game crash errors that look much like this:

EthixusTheGreat said:
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im not sure if it was the exact same error (im not at his house right now) but that is how it looked... =[

HELP!!!! PLEASE!!!
 
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