Thank you, this solution worked for me

Thank You Sir for this ultimate solution.

I had no problem running DW:U on my first Skytech gaming computer. You select 'play' from an initial DW:U screen, then a second, smaller screen pops up which states what is being loaded for a new game.

But on my second Skytech computer, DW:U wouldn't run. Nothing happened at the second, smaller screen. After a few seconds, it just reverted back to the initial DW:U 'play' screen. I tried various display settings and made certain drivers were updated. No luck.

So, I looked for help in this DW:U community discussion and found it. DW:U now runs on my second Skytech computer. Here is a quote* of what I used:



Hope this might help someone,

I am on a fresh Windows10 installation and installing the following two components, that can be obtained directly from the Micorosft Website made the game run. Including the intro video:

- Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0
- DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)

Note that you need to extract the DirectX runtimes and after that run DXSETUP.exe from the target directory manually.



*Taken from the 4/28/2019 post by pereh. Quote is from MiguelDirty. Thank you both!


Note: To avoid the long opening movie: In the Startup file, change 'playmovie 1' to 'playmovie 0'. This is true, but a couple people said doing this also allowed DW:U to run. It's the first thing I did to get DW:U to run and it didn't work in my case.

TYo get it to work, I had to run the DX stuff as Administrator. My regular account as admin access, but I still had to right-click and run as administrator. The files from when I tried to install Dx normally are permanently "in use by another process' and can't be deleted.

Game started initially - once. After that, no chance.

The changes above helped, it is working now (let's see for how long). Cannot believe the thread exists for 4 years and the file has not been updated...

It worked for me, too!

Resurrecting this thread to say that the June 2010 DX install plus the .ini file edit works, for anyone that got this on sale recently.

Well, thanks for the tips, had the same problem on Windows 7 and after installing the Microsoft things and re-enabling Windows Media Player it's working. But I have to say, these requirements should have been communicated more clearly.