Re: Red Alert, The aftermath, Counterstrike DIRECT X SETUP ERROR

Hi Rick,

Thank you so much for your help i have done that and it has installed fine and works, What is it that causes the problem in the first place then?

and do i leave the .cab files in the new folder i created and no longer worry about them?

Thank you very much for your quick responses and help.

Regards

Doiin16

Hi doiin16,

That is great to hear. If you wish you can now delete that folder with the .cab files as they are no longer needed. It appears to come down to a problem with the DirectX extraction process during the installation of the game. By moving these .cab files, it forces Origin to use the DirectX setup again to ensure that it is correctly installing the right files to run the game.

I am very happy to hear that it is working for you now and glad I could help.

If you need anything else let us know.

Thanks.

Rick

this worked for me also thanks

I've got Windows 8 and had the exact same problem.

Have tried the steps shown above, but this didn't work for me.

Any other ideas?

earick,

I have done what you have said in the message, to move the cab files into a created folder.  You said to install the game again in origin after the previous step was completed.  First, I uninstalled and installed the game, but it took out all of the files and the cab files were in the wrong place again.  I tried to repair install the game too, but this just created more cab files, as well.

Could you explain how to get the game to install with the cab files in the created folder?  Thanks.

Windows 10 64.

This fixed it, finally runs perfectly.