Legion Arena Problems - DirectX

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Legion Arena Problems - DirectX

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We've found that some people are having problems running Legion Arena. Apart from the usual driver updates, one possible problem has been brought to our attention. We've heard that games releaed after DirectX9.0c was released, such as the Sims 2, Civilization IV and more, have experienced problems. These games require DirectX9.0c, as does Legion Arena. The problem is that when you install DirectX 9.0c it tells you it has succeeded, but in fact it has not. The problem only seems to occur if you have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed and you already have a version of DirectX (9.0b I think) installed.

If you are unable to run Legion Arena and your PC has Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed, and you had a version of DirectX 9 already installed then it is possible that this is the source of your problem. This bug is in Microsofts installer for DirectX 9.0c so we cannot fix the problem. All we can do it try to help you work around it.

First off a health warning. We did not come up with this work around and have not been able to test it out as we did not have the problem updating DirectX ourselves.

* First off you must uninstall DirectX. This cannot be done without a special tool called Eradicator. This can be downloaded here http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/S ... ator.shtml
* Next you must install DirectX 8.1 from your Win Xp installation disk.
* Finally install DirectX 9.0c

This advice comes from http://ask-leo.com/comments_000337.php?page=2. Once again, we are not affiliated with these people and cannot confirm the advice is reliable. We only post this in the hopes it might help some of you to get playing Legion Arena or any other DirectX 9.0c games that you may have. As we find out more about this issue we'll let you know. Sorry for any inconvenience & hopefully Microsoft will fix it soon......
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