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Old 30-12-2006, 3:38 PM   #1 (permalink)
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broken sword error starting directx

Hi, Please someone HELP!. I am at my wits end, i bought my wife the pc game Broken Sword ' Angel Of Death' for xmas and she was looking forward to playing it very much. We inserted the dvd and installed the game noting that our pc was up to spec to cope with the games requirements. The game seemed to install ...but when attempting to start the game an error messege pops up stating 'Error starting Directx'. The version i have of Directx is the latest, i have run all the diagnostics and all seems fine and i cannot for the life of me think what the problem could be. Someone, anyone please help!
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Old 31-12-2006, 5:12 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Did it state if a DLL was missing?

Try the web update...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
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Old 31-12-2006, 6:36 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: broken sword error starting directx

Who makes publishes broken sword? Check their site for an update/fix/patch.
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Did it state if a DLL was missing?

Try the web update...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Hi Drummerjohn, no the error message was simply 'error starting directx' thanks for getting back to me.
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Old 05-01-2007, 3:07 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: broken sword error starting directx

Friend had this problem as well, try installing v1.1 patch for the game from here:

http://www.gamershell.com/download_16295.shtml
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