Error on start - Cannot initialize directinput

gavdownunder

hiyas,

I'm stuck and pulling out my hair with this one. When launched, arma2 spits back this error. "Cannot initialize directinput" directx 8.

this is on a vistax64 system, I can post up dxdiags if necessary but i have installed dx9 and dx10 and ran the dxwebsetup from Microsfot. Trawling about the web i found a few solutions that have worked for ppl but are not working for me.

what i've done so far
installed dx8redist
installed dx9 Aug09, Dec09, Feb10
disabled UAC
tried running as admin
made sure no other sound processes are running, just incase conflict.
patched arma 1.05
downloaded dx8vb.dll and installed/registered it
downloaded dx8input.dll etc etc

any help would be appreciated.

thread on BISforums - did't help much.

further investigation seems that this error is not game specific, it happens in Lotro and other games. None of which i have installed btw.

thannks in advance
Gavc

PogMoThoin

No idea what You try there but I've had probs with the web directx installer before, best download the full package and run the setup.exe install from desktop
click

gavdownunder

think i found it, windows update not updating properly. says it's complete hasn't installed sp1 or 2 waiting to hear from MS. Free support on vista SP1 and 2 install issues. odd that

Gav

PogMoThoin

I don't try fix windows problems, ever, I just reinstall from scratch.
Get Windows 7, it runs great