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Ok I have The Sims Makin Magic game and for some reason it decides to crash after the splash screen. :crazy:

My friend told me that the makin magic game wasnt made for dx 9.0c and that he reverted back to dx 8.1 (he formatted to do it) and then the game worked just fine.

I'm wanting to try this but I really dont want to have to go through the trouble of formatting everything. Any suggestions?

P.S: I have system restore turned off so :no:

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You can't uninstall DirectX, the installers aren't designed to create the necessary backup information for uninstalls. I'm sure that game works just fine with DirectX 9.0c; your friend probably had some other problems that disappeared when he reinstalled Windows.

  John said:
You can't uninstall DirectX, the installers aren't designed to create the necessary backup information for uninstalls. I'm sure that game works just fine with DirectX 9.0c; your friend probably had some other problems that disappeared when he reinstalled Windows.

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Well i've contacted Maxis and posted my problem on numberous forums and still no luck.

Maxis told me to make sure I didnt have any cd-rom mounting programs running [daemon tools] because it may confuse the game when searching for the cd rom and crash it, and i've done everything the forums have told me with no luck.

  solvable said:
Ok I have The Sims Makin Magic game and for some reason it decides to crash after the splash screen.  :crazy:

My friend told me that the makin magic game wasnt made for dx 9.0c and that he reverted back to dx 8.1 (he formatted to do it) and then the game worked just fine.

I'm wanting to try this but I really dont want to have to go through the trouble of formatting everything. Any suggestions?

P.S: I have system restore turned off so  :no:

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System specs would be nice, i wanna see if your card is a directx 9 card.

Your friend is full of bs, sorry... ;)

have you updated drivers, patched the game, made any hardware changes in your system lately/recently?

  ripgut said:
System specs would be nice, i wanna see if your card is a directx 9 card.

Your friend is full of bs, sorry... ;)

have you updated drivers, patched the game, made any hardware changes in your system lately/recently?

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AMD Athlon 1ghz

512mb Sdram

64mb SiS 730 Video Card [Not good at all but should be capable of running The Sims]

160gb Maxtor Hard Drive

Windows XP SP1 Home Edition

Direct X 9.0c

I got the most recent updated drivers for the card.

There is no patches for the sims makin magic.

And I havent made any system changes, I've only installed a few small programs like nero & aim and what not.

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