Warcraft won't work, don't knwo why

[John Gutmann]

I installed warcraft on my laptop and when I tried to start the game with the disc in it told me it couldn't start directX 8.1 (which I installed from the disc), and to make sure my display drivers are up to date. (Which I didn't bother getting when I reinstalled windows XP because it seemed to work fine with the drivers already in XP). Any ideas?

-John

EDIT: oops just realized I spelled the title wrong, that make me look reallllly smart........[/sarcasm]

[JBotAlan]

Go to this page:
Massively long Microsoft link (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0A9B6820-BFBB-4799-9908-D418CDEAC197&displaylang=en)
and (assuming your copy of Windows is legit...sad that I have to say that) validate and download. That version of DirectX is the latest and is backwards-compatible.

If it still doesn't work, try Googling around for a fix with the exact text of the error message in double quotation marks. That makes Google search for those terms in that order.

Good luck,
JBot

[chris31]

Make sure you update your drivers and directX. I believe the latest version is 9.0c. Are you trying to run World of Warcraft or Warcraft III (not that it should matter, other that W3 is an older game).