ddraw.dll missing

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-02-21 09:16pm

Should I reinstall DirectX or just download just this one component?
I have no zero idea how this happened, except that I had to boot my comp in safe mode about an hour ago, and then found ddraw missing.

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2005-02-21 09:21pm

I'd say reinstall DirectX

that way your sure to catch any other missing DX files you may have

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-02-21 09:26pm

Ok, I ran dxdiag, only ddraw.dll is missing, thankfully.
But, when I dled and reinstalled DirectX, nothing happened. The little install screen came up, ran through, completed sucessfully, but ddraw.dll is still missing.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-02-21 10:52pm

Well, I've tried reinstalling, rebooting, etc etc, and nothing works.
What the hell is going on? After each reinstall, it says the file is still missing.

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2005-02-22 01:27am

Here you go, make sure you have 9.0c first.

Linky

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-02-22 11:15am

So, where do I put it?

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-02-22 11:58am

Also, whenever I run dxdiag, I get the following error:
'Problem getting extra display info, result code 0x8000x4005 (generic failure)'

Could this have something to do with it?

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2005-02-23 12:34am

Assuming you have XP, in windows/system32.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-02-23 11:27am

Well, it's a rather moot point now, so I just decided to reinstall Windows.
Everything went perfectly smoothly, except the sound doesn't work.