- Feb 12, 2015
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I swear I'm going to have a brain hemorrhage over this.
All I want to do is play games! I bought the Lenovo Y50-70 laptop exclusively to play games, and it has put me in a computer purgatory I would pay to get out of. I run Windows 8.1 (no Update 1, 2, or 3 since attempting to install them has resulted in repeated failures and I do not care enough to find a work-around for whatever error code I run into). I straight out refuse to install those updates since they compromise the stability of my system despite the security fixes, driver updates, etc. If I don't have an OS that even works, why worry about updating it?
When opening some games through Steam, they crash before they open. OK - no problem. I decide I'll go to the directory where the game is and open its application there. Various errors have cropped up saying I'm missing "xinput1_3.dll" or "xapofx1_5.dll", etc. The missing file depends on the game. I downloaded individual .dll files to replace the missing ones, and even when I did there was another file "missing".
I've searched and realized these all files have to do with DirectX. Forums have suggested downloading and re-installing DirectX. Ok - no problem. I'll go and download the DirectX installer (June 2010 Redistributable). I've tried both the web version (that replaces only missing files) and the standalone (which is supposed to be the full install). In either case, the installation fails and I get a message to check the DirectX log in System32. Ok - no problem. So I check there, and it tells me the issue is that all the files I'm trying to install HAVE ALREADY BEEN INSTALLED. So my game programs fail because DirectX is missing files, and the DirectX install fails because there are NO MISSING FILES. Is this Catch-22?! I'm losing my mind. Please, please help me. I'll do anything at this point. I dropped a bunch of cash on this machine to enjoy my free time and I spend it all digging through directories and trying to solve a problem A DECENT OS WOULD HAVE ALREADY SOLVED.
All I want to do is play games! I bought the Lenovo Y50-70 laptop exclusively to play games, and it has put me in a computer purgatory I would pay to get out of. I run Windows 8.1 (no Update 1, 2, or 3 since attempting to install them has resulted in repeated failures and I do not care enough to find a work-around for whatever error code I run into). I straight out refuse to install those updates since they compromise the stability of my system despite the security fixes, driver updates, etc. If I don't have an OS that even works, why worry about updating it?
When opening some games through Steam, they crash before they open. OK - no problem. I decide I'll go to the directory where the game is and open its application there. Various errors have cropped up saying I'm missing "xinput1_3.dll" or "xapofx1_5.dll", etc. The missing file depends on the game. I downloaded individual .dll files to replace the missing ones, and even when I did there was another file "missing".
I've searched and realized these all files have to do with DirectX. Forums have suggested downloading and re-installing DirectX. Ok - no problem. I'll go and download the DirectX installer (June 2010 Redistributable). I've tried both the web version (that replaces only missing files) and the standalone (which is supposed to be the full install). In either case, the installation fails and I get a message to check the DirectX log in System32. Ok - no problem. So I check there, and it tells me the issue is that all the files I'm trying to install HAVE ALREADY BEEN INSTALLED. So my game programs fail because DirectX is missing files, and the DirectX install fails because there are NO MISSING FILES. Is this Catch-22?! I'm losing my mind. Please, please help me. I'll do anything at this point. I dropped a bunch of cash on this machine to enjoy my free time and I spend it all digging through directories and trying to solve a problem A DECENT OS WOULD HAVE ALREADY SOLVED.
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