Help with Error launching HL2 engine games

TheDome · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:57

Cant get any games using the HL2 engine to work apart from Hl2 itself.

The error appears to be with the file named shaderapidx9.dll and i get the error when trying to launch say CS or dod and even Dark Messiah. BUt like i said HL2 itself seems to work fine.

I have reinstalled DX and tried quite a few ATI drivers (incliding the latest)

Has anyone got any ideas or come across this before......i dont want to have to rebuild

Cheers

SiriusB · 27 Oct 2006 at 17:46

uninstall one of the games and reinstall and see what happens. You should also try the support pages on Steam/Valves website.

SiriusB

TheDome · 27 Oct 2006 at 17:55

Thanks for the reply. I have removed all games and steam but this didnt seem to help. I have also tried the steam forums without much luck tbh. I guess a rebuild is what its going to have to be :mad:

C64 · 10 Sep 2008 at 00:43

Got the same error when trying to launch tf2 have tried all their fixes no idea whats going on here.

RobertN · 10 Sep 2008 at 01:02

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=574938&page=5&highlight=shaderapidx9.dll

quick google threw this up

C64 · 10 Sep 2008 at 02:35

None of the fixes work for me

C64 · 10 Sep 2008 at 02:45

Okay I think it's probably wmiprvse.exe is missing I always delete it (it annoys me) never affected anything before now.

Click Start > Run and type in and press enter the following
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection WBEM 132 %windir%\inf\wbemoc.inf

You will need an XP CD with the same version you have installed.
If it asks for this file napclientprov.mof point it to this directory C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem