Smurfness 0 Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Okay, so haven't played for a couple of years now. Recently found out the game was making a bit of a comeback and was delighted so obviously I immediately downloaded the client and installed. All happy and stuff, went to play the game and bam "Fatal Error Couldn't load vid_d3d9". Done the obligatory search of google/reddit etc and have followed numerous pieces of advice to no avail. Reinstalled the game half a dozen times. Tried running as admin. Replaced and sorted all the appropriate .dll files. Tried running in compatability mode with various OS'. Feel at a bit of a lose end now and would greatly appreciate some advice, thanks. Link to post Share on other sites
SomePUB 0 Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Hello, "Fatal Error Couldn't load vid_d3d9" It's seems there is a issue with you're DIrectX 9 driver, not directly problem with the game itself. Did you try to reinstall your DIrectX 9 driver? Btw, replacing ddl fiiles is not a good idea! And what kinda spec are you running on your pc? Link to post Share on other sites
Smurfness 0 Posted September 27, 2020 Author Share Posted September 27, 2020 Tried reinstalling the DirectX driver several time to no avail. Was also very careful with the .dll files. Running a Gigabyte Z270X-Ultra, i7-6700k, 16gb memory and GTX 1070ti. Link to post Share on other sites
SomePUB 0 Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Maybe there is a problem with the DIrectX installer. Where did you download DIrectX exactly? In HoN folder there is a DIrectX installer buit-in. In my case: C:\Program Files (x86)\Heroes of Newerth\directxredist\DXSETUP.exe Link to post Share on other sites
Smurfness 0 Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 Have done this, even went through the hassle of uninstalling any and all DirectX components so I could inctall it anew, but to no avail. Link to post Share on other sites
Mr`Cactus 12 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Hello, try to play with openGL instead of directX. To do this, surf your "Documents" folder --> "Heroes of Newerth" --> "game" --> open the file "startup.cfg" with notepad. Look for this line: SetSave "host_vidDriver" "vid_d3d9" "0" and replace it with: SetSave "host_vidDriver" "vid_gl2" "0" Save the file then try to launch the game 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Smurfness 0 Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 My friend, you are an absolute star! Worked well. I thank you. Link to post Share on other sites
datfizh 17 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 My friend, could you change the title to "Fatal Error Couldn't load vid_d3d9"? So, people will know immediately what the actual error is from the title alone and hopefully people with similar problem could immediately head to this thread because I assume the error is already solved. I also saw you posted your problem on community tech support sub-forum, perhaps you could change the title there and copy-paste the solution provided by this thread. Thanks in advance. If anyone wonders about my intelligence regarding this game, then consider yourself visiting this thread: Link to post Share on other sites
Ceriss 21 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 (edited) datfizh it is not a fix, the option presented by Mr`Cactus is just a workaround Edited September 28, 2020 by Ceriss Link to post Share on other sites
datfizh 17 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Ceriss said: datfizh it is not a fix, the option presented by Mr`Cactus is just a workaround Oh, my bad. Thank you for the correction. At least that works in some ways. If anyone wonders about my intelligence regarding this game, then consider yourself visiting this thread: Link to post Share on other sites
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