p4rtyb0y69 0 Posted November 29, 2004 OK, I just bought the game tonight but it's been crazy ever since then because I can't get it to work. This is mainly a problem with DirectX rather than Sims. I currently have DirectX 9.0b installed on my Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2 system. When I did the installation for Sims it asked me if I wanted to upgrade to DirectX 9.0c so I naturally selected yes. I was taken to the next screen where I get to either agree or disagree with the terms and conditions. I click yes, go to the next screen. It says that it may take several minutes to update and install, blah blah, and click Next to begin the installation. When I click Next however, the screen changes to the one where it says "installing' with the progress bar for a split second, but then jumps straight into the 'installation complete' screen. It basically doesn't install. I tried this with the 9.0c version from the game CD and I even downloaded it off of the microsoft site. But it still does the same and I'm stuck on 9.0b. Right now anytime I try to run the game I get this message: "Failed to initialize Direct3D. Please make sure DirectX 9.0c has been installed on this system. The application will now terminate." I tried different things, up[censored] my drivers and everything and nothing works. My computer is a newer version and is pretty fast so I'm not concerned about that. It's just the DirectX 9.0c won't install for some reason. Anyone please help me? Im desperate Share this post Link to post
