[Nebby_99]

YESS!!!

I got the XInput DLL from here:
http://www.m3fe.com/content/xinput
and grabbed the D3D9REF one out of the June 2008 DirectX SDK (had to install it).
I was too lazy to register them, so I just chucked them into the game folder.

…and voila! Got into the menu on my 2nd attempt (crashed midway through the logo cinematic the first time – I think because of the Live sign-in).

So try getting the above DLLs and registering them (or putting them into the game folder directly). If that doesn’t work, grab the latest version of the DirectX SDK and install it (it’s MASSIVE though).

Good luck!

[Nebby_99]

I crashed it with procmon running, but I’m too much of a n00b to make any sense of the output. I saw about a billion gibberish looking entries with D3D in them that had “Name Not Found” and so was thinking a DirectX issue >.>

I was probably looking in completely the wrong place though.

The lines look like:
HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetControlCLASS{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}000_grand theft auto iv/launchgtaiv.exe:D3D_32661390 NAME NOT FOUND

EDIT:

I looked through all the normal “NAME NOT FOUND” entries, and while there was a ton of them, the following files actually seemed to be missing (I couldn’t find them anyway):
– RPAWINET.DLL (Seems to be an old ISP software DLL or something? WTF?)
– CABDDF1.tmp (No idea what that’s about)
– D3DREF9.DLL (Seems like it’d be important)
– XINPUT9_1_0.DLL (I remember seeing that people got errors about this one in other games – might be significant?)

I hope that helps someone to work this out… I might see if I can find some virus-infected downloadable version of these DLLs and register them. I’ll post back if it achieves anything (other than my destruction).

[Nebby_99]

Yes, please!

A friend bought this game for me, it’s really going to suck if it won’t run.

Does anyone know if it’s related to the Games Explorer? Can someone with the Games Explorer working try it?

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