Help for DirectX on Vista!

[Gosu-Rizzle]

Hi guys!

I just bought CoD4 and i am trying to play it on my new Vista-64 bit computer. When i try to open the game it says "directx has encountered a unrecoverble error" and shuts down...
The reedme says i have to instal DX 9.c to play, but i have tried that without any change

Anyone knows what i should do?

[Namakan]

update dx?

[imported_Whiskey]

When i try to open the game it says "directx has encountered a unrecoverble error" and shuts down...

If you are using X-Fire, you need to log out, and completely EXIT the program. Then boot the game up. You can't change any visual game settings when you have X-Fire running in the background.

[Gosu-Rizzle]

I have read that, but im not useing x-fire so that cant be it... Has no one else tried this???

[Speckled_Pants]

Im using vista 64 and ive no problems at all!

Have you downloaded all the ms updates?

[Gosu-Rizzle]

Im using vista 64 and ive no problems at all!

Have you downloaded all the ms updates?

Well, i do i know if i havent? What have u downloaded?

[sava700]

umm update DX for starters, check for any updates from windowsupdate.com

Also make sure you don't have any anti-virus running or firewall.

[Speckled_Pants]

Yeah as said above check the windows update site, but make sure you have this

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en