Hello! I just bought The Sims 2 and it requires DX9c to be installed on
the system. I've tried using the CD version and the download version
available from the Microsoft website.

The installation gets as far as "Searching for updated DirectX Runtime
components" and then just freezes. I've waited upto 20 minutes and
nothing happens. When I Ctrl+Alt+Del it shows it as not responding.

I have XP Pro and DX9b installed already and have tried restarting and
closing all other non-system applications. Still nothing.
Any ideas what is wrong, and how I can fix this?

thanks!

Weyoun the Dancing Borg wrote:

i stil cant get it to work so I thought I'd install SP2 since that
includes it apparently.

Now SP2 wont install!!

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Try to check whether the installations left any error log in your HD.
I am thinking you might having some corrupted system file.

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