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Wife loves Command and Conquer, bought her the latest RED ALERT 3 and installed it on its' own drive ( not C:). Got an error saying

This application has failed to start because d3dx9_35.dll was not found. Re-Installing the application may fix the problem

Un-Installed, Re-Installed.. No joy. Moved the installation the C: drive. No Joy. Updated the Nvidia drivers to the newest version. No Joy. PC exceeds minimum requirements for game.
DXDIAG
System Manufacturer: INTELR
System Model: AWRDACPI
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1536MB RAM
Page File: 504MB used, 2420MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 8 test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests were successful.
Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
Sound Tab 2: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
Music Tab: DirectMusic test results: All tests were successful.
Input Tab: No problems found.
Network Tab: No problems found.

can post full version.

The missing .dll file is in a folder in the game but it still won't fuggin werk!!!

Any idears?

Maybe try downloading latest DX9 from MS website.though they are all named 9.0c there are newer and newer versions of it coming out.

also you may want to search for the DX removal tool and reinstall the DX9 itself.

Most up to date:

DirectX End-User Runtimes (November 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

Do what they all said, as well check your C:\Windows\system32 directory (Windows XP) the file should be there, if you have Vista, disregard as Vista isn't spoken here.

I'd just reinstall DirextX

Next dumb question,
where exactly do I put the damn thing, because that redistribution version asks for a place to land.

Oh, hey Willie !
It's easy:

You have to put it whereever you want to, maybe in a new temporary folder called DirectX or whatever you might like.

It just extracts all the many essential files to that folder and there you have to execute the file:
DXSETUP.exe

Only then the full automatic installation starts without asking for anything more again.

THANKS!!

I made a new folder extracted it to the new folder, opened the DXSETUP and let her fly..

Now to see IF the game works. LOL

Slan'
W

EDIT:


It WORKED!!

Her majesty is a happy camper.