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Sid Meier's Pirates!Unable to initialise DirectX(11 posts)(11 posts)
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Posted May 08, 2020
I see this is posted before and as others running Directx 12 so unable to update to DirectX 9. Is there a fix to this, ive contacted GOG for remedy or refund and they havent replied after 3 weeks (virus excuses)
Laptop Win 10, i7 10thGen, 16GB RAM, 2GB NVidia card
Posted June 13, 2020
You install DX9 alongside DX12 and the problem is solved.
Posted July 01, 2020
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gordon1973: I see this is posted before and as others running Directx 12 so unable to update to DirectX 9. Is there a fix to this, ive contacted GOG for remedy or refund and they havent replied after 3 weeks (virus excuses)
Laptop Win 10, i7 10thGen, 16GB RAM, 2GB NVidia card
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 i downloaded this and it worked immediately!!!

its a directX issue this installs OLD files on TOP of your updated directX Good luck!
Posted August 27, 2020
installed DX9, but still the same error
Posted August 30, 2020
Adding "Fullscreen = 0" to the config works, but well yeah than it's in window mode, not an optimal solution.
Posted August 30, 2020
A link to the game's support pages at GOG: https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/213530669-Sid-Meier-s-Pirates-?product=gog
Posted September 01, 2020
well the problem with this "solutions" on the support page is that they do not work for everyone.
maybe it has to do with my widescreen
Posted September 01, 2020
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signanz.772:
Maybe do an Xdiagnostics and look through that for problems. If you cannot understand any of it, support should be able to help if you ask them.
Posted September 02, 2020
I finally solved it (solutions of support did not work), followed a steam forum post.
I removed the config file and it works now, something in the old one seems to work on Win7 but not on Win10
Posted April 28, 2021
Any help on HOW to install DirectX 9? The odd part is this works on my work computer (Windows 10) but not on my old laptop I upgraded to Windows 10.
Posted April 28, 2021
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Pholisma:
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/directx-redistributable-runtime/

There should be instructions. Did you above your post see the advice about removing your config file.
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