AI war directX problem

[spwa117]

when i start AI war it says"could not initialize direct X" can anyone help?

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Please make sure that directx 9.0c and slimdx march 2009 sp1 are installed on your machine. These are both in the prerequisites topic in this forum if you need the links. Aside from that, assuming your graphics card driver is installed and even remotely up to date, you shouldn't get this error. My guess is that one of the above components simply was not installed.

[spwa117]

there both installed and yet it still says it

[x4000]

Either one of them are corrupt, or your graphics card driver is out of date.  First thing I would do is make sure that your graphics card driver is up to date, in that case.  And then if that does not work, I would uninstall and reinstall SlimDX and DirectX 9.0c to make sure that there are no issues there.  You can also look in the AI War folder to see if a more specific error has been logged, and then post that here.

It does occur to me that you might be able to get this error if .NET 2.0 is corrupt on your machine, or was installed but then was uninstalled.  That can cause issues with SlimDX, and might be the issue.  If you never had .NET 2.0 that would be no problem, but having uninstalled it often leaves behind some crud in windows that can cause problems with applications that were originally compiled against .NET 2.0.