My Game won't install because I have a DirectX problem please help!

Forgot to ask; was this the redist you tried installing? Download Details - Microsoft Download Center - DirectX Redist (June 2010)

Marshall Moore, there's a DirectX.log under C:\Windows too. Can you post that log please? Thank you.

sygnus21 said:

If that doesn't work you can try a Repair Install

Either way you go make sure you backup your critical files.

After much deliberation and research on my part, I am about to conclude the same. I can't pinpoint where the exact problem is for sure as I failed in every way to try to replicate it.

However, before you go to that extreme, I would like to suggest the following based on your log file.

You see, your log ends with this error:

Code:

10/26/11 14:46:36: dxupdate: CMDXCheck::IsAssemblyInUse(): GetAssemblyList() failed, error = 0x80070005.

What's supposed to happen would look like this, based on my own log file:

Code:

10/27/11 10:58:41: dxupdate: CMDXCheck::IsAssemblyInUse(): Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback:1.0.2902.0:31bf3856ad364e35 is not locked.
10/27/11 10:58:41: dxupdate: IsTargetFileInUse(): C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\DirectX for Managed Code\1.0.2902.0\Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback.dll is not locked.

I suggest that you:
1. Update/Repair/Reinstall .NET by using Download Details - Microsoft Download Center - Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Web Installer)

2. Check if you can access C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET and its subfolders. You should be able to.

3. Have the following Registry entries in [HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\]



4. Rename "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\DirectX for Managed Code" to something like "DirectX for Managed Codea" (<-Added an "a" in the end. This will serve as a backup). This will prompt the DirectX updater to redownload the folder along with the files.

If it fails, then I can't think of anything else except to do sygnus21's advice of a repair install.