he castagnaro,
your problem is a little different to mine but maybe my solution will work too. at least its worth a try...
following is a link to the steam forum that helped me with my directx probs.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/805550/d ... 477055711/

i got the solution from an answer in the steam-forum. Game is now up and running.
thx for your help. following is the link to an old steam forum article that had the solution.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/805550/d ... 477055711/

he zakblood, thx for fast reply.
its the steam version 1.00.04 of the game.
yes Visual C++ has been installed via aio-installer and is also up to date.


thx base

as soon as i click on play in the pop up window, a new window opens with the error message: "The following component(s) are required to run this program: DirectX Runtime". I´m running win10 up to date, checked dxdiag, tried to reinstall DirectX, but it says all is up to date. Reinstalled g...