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I know the game works on my pc because ive been playing it the last few days. But when i tried to start it up today when i click play game from the launcher i get this message "Failed to initialize renderer. Unknown error creating the gamebryo renderer." Ive been searching all over the internet for a fix but barely see this problem mentioned anywhere, I even did a complete uninstall and reinstall but its still giving me this annoying message, someone please help ive put around 90 hours of my life into this game in the last 6 days and i want to continue playing instead of that time having been wasted.

Try to reinstall DirectX. If that doesn't work, try to reinstall the graphic card drivers.

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I got the error to stop by disabling my video card driver and re-enabling it, thank you for your help.

Im having a problem with the error but i tried to re-install direct x and re-install the graphic card drivers as said above by Freddo but it still shows the error so any help will be appreciated

Basic Hardware Specification Chart (Empty so far)

Processor Manufacturer: AMD / Intel
Processor Name / Type: Athlon X2 / Pentium D / C2D / dual core / quad, etc.
Processor Speed: ?.? Ghz
Operating System / Service Pack: WindowsXP with SP #?, Win7, Vista ?
System RAM: ? ? GBs (MBs, if less than 1024 ? )
Video (GPU) Manufacturer: ATI / Nvidia (only those two are supported, PERIOD, so please answer which of them you have)
Video Card Model: (examples) Radeon HD 6670 / Geforce GTS 450
Video Card Driver Version: Catalyst ?.? / Nforce ??.??
. . (please use the numbers, and dates, *not* the word "latest")
Video display's default screen resolution
Video Card onboard RAM: ? ? ? MBs
Sound Card Manufacturer:
Sound Card Driver IDs:
Sound Card Model:

(And this is only for the raw hardware & driver variations. Potential software conflicts are far more likely to be game play problems, and developers cannot test for all possible program loads.)

There are some old, or inadequate video solutions that cannot be used, no matter the Dx9 version or the graphics driver used, they are simply too far below the game's practical minimum level:

Minimum System Requirements (VGAs corrected for Obsidian stupidity):

* Windows XP/Vista/Win7
* 1GB System RAM (XP)/ 2GB System RAM (Vista)
* 2.0 Ghz Dual Core processor
* Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM
(NVIDIA 6800 "GS" or better/ ATI X1300XT or better)
{Added my note here, the X1600 Pro & up really, and
avoid both the Geforce 6800 SE, and the 6800 XT}
* 10 GBs of free hard drive space