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Initialization failed Direct3d initialization failed.

Posted: 09 Jan 2017, 06:16
by Pat4ever
Used to be able to play this on my laptop with Windows 7 without any problems that I can recall, but I switched to Windows 10 and this isn't working whatsoever. It gives me this crash even when (in many combinations): deleted and reinstalled, switched to different compatibilities, turning off anti-virus, and turning on/off DirectPlay. Please help!!!

http://i.imgur.com/7YTAKZt.png

Re: Initialization failed Direct3d initialization failed.

Posted: 09 Jan 2017, 13:01
by Ashvin
Strange! I have encountered this message but only when another game is already running in the background or when i click age3 icon twice. Are you sure you have all your graphic drivers updated and have the directx installed?

Re: Initialization failed Direct3d initialization failed.

Posted: 09 Jan 2017, 13:15
by AOEisLOVE_AOEisLIFE
Pat4ever wrote:Used to be able to play this on my laptop with Windows 7 without any problems that I can recall, but I switched to Windows 10 and this isn't working whatsoever. It gives me this crash even when (in many combinations): deleted and reinstalled, switched to different compatibilities, turning off anti-virus, and turning on/off DirectPlay. Please help!!!

http://i.imgur.com/7YTAKZt.png


did you update graphic drivers after switching to win10 ?
EDIT: sorry, kinda dumb post, guy above me already asked same question..

Re: Initialization failed Direct3d initialization failed.

Posted: 09 Jan 2017, 20:53
by noissance
Maybe the windows 10 messed up old directX and you might have to reinstall directX.

Re: Initialization failed Direct3d initialization failed.

Posted: 11 Jan 2017, 02:16
by Pat4ever
Drivers are up to date. Still no solution.

Re: Initialization failed Direct3d initialization failed.

Posted: 11 Jan 2017, 08:11
by Ashvin
Show me the logfile.txt I guess I'd be able to figure something out. It should be here

C:\Users\"username"\Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3

Re: Initialization failed Direct3d initialization failed.

Posted: 12 Jan 2017, 03:59
by Pat4ever
I really appreciate the help! This is the logfile:


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File 'Age3Log.txt' opened at Tue Jan 10 21:12:57 2017

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PreGame 7653: Game locale: English
PreGame 8427: nvCPL is unavailable.
PreGame 12686: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
PreGame 12687: Render using: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
PreGame 12687: Driver: nvd3dum.dll -- version 21.21.13.7633
PreGame 12687: VendorID = 0x10de
PreGame 12687: DeviceID = 0x1199
PreGame 12687: SubSysID = 0x157d1043
PreGame 12687: Revision = 0xa1
PreGame 12687: DeviceIdentifier: {D7B71E3E-52D9-11CF-226E-70351BC2D835}
PreGame 12704: XML render config -- found vendor 0x10DE as 'NVIDIA'
PreGame 12705: XML render config -- choosing generic device configuration file 'geforce fx 6800'
PreGame 14627: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
PreGame 14627: Render using: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
PreGame 14627: Driver: nvd3dum.dll -- version 21.21.13.7633
PreGame 14627: VendorID = 0x10de
PreGame 14627: DeviceID = 0x1199
PreGame 14627: SubSysID = 0x157d1043
PreGame 14627: Revision = 0xa1
PreGame 14627: DeviceIdentifier: {D7B71E3E-52D9-11CF-226E-70351BC2D835}
PreGame 14635: XML render config -- found vendor 0x10DE as 'NVIDIA'

Re: Initialization failed Direct3d initialization failed.

Posted: 14 Jan 2017, 20:37
by Pat4ever
Any luck??

Re: Initialization failed Direct3d initialization failed.

Posted: 14 Jan 2017, 21:43
by Ashvin
sorry @Pat4ever I was busy irl. Dunno it looks fine to me. One thing you can try is delete the NewProfile3.xml in
C:\Users\"username"\Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3/Users3
(if it is TAD)