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

[audcand.livejournal.com]

I had this problem when I moved my game to my new computer with win7. I deleted and reinstalled pretty much every driver on my computer, then deleted and reinstalled directX. I also rebooted after deleting everything but before reinstalling everything. I know that's a bit vague, but it worked for me. I used to get random directX errors thrown at me even after all that, but since I've begun deleting my game cache before starting up my game, it hasn't been a problem.

Good Luck! I really hope you get your game back up as I love to lurk on your LJ :)