Win 8: game won't launch problem+solution

[nikivdd]

Hello guys,

I installed the game on my win 8, then used the shortcut to start the game. Then i clicked play game but the game doesn't launch. My cursor changes to the blue swirl for a few seconds and then nothing...
I investigated the matter further and found out that the game wouldn't launch because d3dx9.dll is missing.
I went to the microsoft page http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... aspx?id=35 , downloaded the installer, installed the directX update to 9.0c version.
Afterwards i could launch the game and start the campaign.

[ThvN]

Same issue for me, with the same fix. OS is Win7 64-bit.

The missing file is "d3dx9_43.dll". Oddly, using the game launcher the response was different them launching the executable itself:

With the game launcher, when I selected "play game" nothing happened apart from some HD activity. No messages or wait icons. When I found and launched the executable directly, I got the error message and was able to fix it myself, in exactly the same way as nikivdd described.

[Rudankort]

Thanks guys. I did not realize DirectX 9, which is very old stuff by now, was not available in modern systems out of the box. We'll need to include it in the installer.

[sshnuke]

modern systems such as win8 or win8.1 only include directx11 by default
so the resolution is to make games using dx11 or to include dx9 in the installation packages

[sshnuke]

I've tried armageddon beta on win 10 tech preview edition and it runs well

[Rudankort]

Thanks for heads up, good to know Win10 does not create any new problems for us.