Re: C&C 3 direct x error on windows 10
The "or higher" part is the problem. It just isn't true. I think either the later DirectX versions are missing components the game needs, or programs built for DirectX 9 are simply unable to recognize these later versions as something they can use. Either way, you need version 9. The old version can perfectly live alongside your system's newer one, though, so you can just install it and that'll fix the issue:
- Download the DirectX Redistributables package from June 2010. Be sure to uncheck any other junk they want to add to it. It should be a file called "directx_Jun2010_redist.exe".
- Run the downloaded file. It'll ask for a folder to unpack in. Make a new folder somewhere on your disk and unpack it there. It doesn't matter where you unpack it; it can be deleted afterwards anyway.
- Go to the folder where you told it to extract.
- Find "DXSETUP.exe", and run that to install the missing components.
- After the installation finished, delete the folder you unpacked everything in.
