Sid Meier’s Pirates!

doesnt run.

It's OK, the first few hours are pretty fun as you sail around the Caribbean and explore but soon the game shows its true colors and overall the gameplay is pretty shallow and has a variety of problems. - the game forces you to "reset progress" periodically. your crew will eventually loose moral and you are forced to split up your loot and pay them. This causes you to loose all crew, all but a small percetage of any money you earned and all your fleet except your flagship. This is pretty annoying if you had some nice ships and a sizable crew. This also kills trade, travel can be very slow and without fighting your morale goes down faster it's not very profitable to be a trader, capturing ships is faster, easier and earns way more money. - the ballroom minigame starts out pretty tedious. but at least at the lower levels the game gives you key highlights so you just plug along based on the queues. After the first captain rank-up you loose the highlights so the game goes from boring but easy to insanely difficult. - you really don't need cannons on your ship. Naval battles can be won by either sinking the ship or capturing it. Obviously capturing gets you more loot and you often get more crew and the ship itself. But if you shoot up the ship you earn less. so very quickly you learn to never fire a shot and just dodge incoming fire until you ram the ship and start the captain battle (swordfighting). the sword fights are fast and easy, after upgrading you can usually win just mashing one key and you get goodies and a ship with 0% damage you can keep or sell. After figuring that out I pretty much never fired a shot afterwards and could capture any ship with ease. If you can get it cheap it's good for a couple hours but pans out to be very dull.

"Unable to initialize DirectX." My bad computer won't let me play the game even though I do have the correct specs. just shows that DirectX window

There is, for some reason, no better pirate game. Nothing will feel quite so much like a swashbuckling action adventure movie. It is a joy with surprising depth. This is, for some reason, the best version of this game. This is a port of the turn-of-the-century XBOX release, a reboot of the original. This is unmistakably a janky XBOX port.

it crahed and i died why would this happen