Hi Metehannica,
Reinstalling drivers and your OS and stuff is false info at this point, we have already established that the problem is DirectX. So no need to drive yourself crazy on other things.
The installation of DirectX goes automaticly through windows updates sinse the release of Windows Vista. Therefor there are no legitimate links to installs for DirectX. Risk the virus yourself if you want
I'm gonna be away from the forum untill monday so I'm gonna drop a last bomb untill then that hopefully will solve the case:
Removing binkplay.exe
Goto C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\MountBlade Warband.
Make a copy of binkplay.exe and then remove the original.
Start warband, click Configure, goto Video Tab, Change to DirectX 7 from dropdown, launch the game.
Works? Great! Now try changing it to DirectX 9.
Questions:
I looked a bit closer at the screenshot you posted and I noticed you are running 2 warband clients? That will clash if you try.
Also have a look at this folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\MountBlade Warband\DirectX.
Do the following 9 items appear in it?
- APR2007_xinput_x86.cab
- Aug2009_D3DCompiler_42_x86.cab
- Aug2009_d3dx9_42_x86.cab
- DSETUP.dll
- dsetup32.dll
- dxdllreg_x86.cab
- DXSETUP.exe
- dxupdate.cab
- Mar2009_d3dx9_41_x86.cab
If not then feel free to download a copy of
my folder. Just override and launch the game!
If you wanna try this anway, then
make sure to make a backup before overriding!!
Good luck and hope to read a [SOLVED] when I come back