DirectX 9 Issues

[strangetomato]

Before I start digging around for answers, I thought I'd throw this out there to anyone who may have already dealt with this problem. I finished installing my Sims 2 basegame and all the EPs and SPs, and when I tried to run it, I received this message:

Has this happened to anyone else? I'm running Windows 7, and I'm assuming I'm also running something that's a more recent version of DirectX. Any thoughts? I'd appreciate any advice you can throw my way.

ETA: I'm taking a look at this page. Hopefully, it'll provide an answer. Ugh, I can be so clueless about this sort of thing.

Comments

[w-sims.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why this would work, but it's worked for me on various other messages that have popped up and stopped my game working.

Try deleting the Accessory and Group caches, Cigen and ContestRegistry files. They're all in the My Docs -> EA Games ->The Sims 2 folder.


This probably won't help but it is the fix for quite a few loading issues, and the files come right back once the game successfully loads so it might be worth a go! Hope this gets fixed soon!