"Failed To Initialize Direct3D"

[Chunk Of Norris]

I have been having a lot of trubble trying to launch the new Tomb Raider and after a lot of searching on the webs, I still haven't found any helpful information. When I start the game from Steam it opens a launcher with the alternatives Play, Options, some links and quit. If I press play, a dialog box with the error "Failed To Initialize Direct3D with the current setting" comes up. If I press options it crashes.

I run a 660 from Asus with the newest drivers.

What I have tried so far:

Vertifying the integrity of local game cache

Deleting local files and downloaded it again

Tried with the following drivers; 314.07, 313.96, 310.90

Reinstalling DirectX 11

Thousands of reboots

Checked that Direct3D is enabled in dxdiag.

Anyone have experience with simular problems or know how, what, where or who Direct3D is? This is getting extremly frustrating.

På forhånd takk!

[mgsstar]

Have you tried completely uninstalling the drivers of your gpu and reinstalling it?

[Chunk Of Norris]

Have you tried completely uninstalling the drivers of your gpu and reinstalling it?

When you reinstall the drivers it starts by removing the old drivers, but I can try it your way.

[Chunk Of Norris]

Have you tried completely uninstalling the drivers of your gpu and reinstalling it?

Did not work :(

[Chunk Of Norris]

I've actually been having trouble with the game as well. The game crashes on me almost constantly... I notice that it happens a bit while I'm near fire and large sums of water. I saw something about this somewhere on the web yesterday and there is speculation on the crashes being caused by the drivers... I run a GTX 680 and Nvidia Geforce drive 314.07 (the latest I'm assuming). Square-Enix and the other company involved in creating this game haven't released anything about the crashes yet so I believe that we'll just have to wait and see.

Maybe, but sucks not to be able to play right now. I think I'll just reinstall the OS after school today.

[Chunk Of Norris]

I've actually been having trouble with the game as well. The game crashes on me almost constantly... I notice that it happens a bit while I'm near fire and large sums of water. I saw something about this somewhere on the web yesterday and there is speculation on the crashes being caused by the drivers... I run a GTX 680 and Nvidia Geforce drive 314.07 (the latest I'm assuming). Square-Enix and the other company involved in creating this game haven't released anything about the crashes yet so I believe that we'll just have to wait and see.

What OS do you run? Do you have a TombRaider.txt in Documnets? If you do, can you send me the contents? I have win8 but in the txt it says I have Vista...

[Chunk Of Norris]

After downgrading to win 7 i got into options and after unchecking exclusive fullscreen the game was able to launch. But I wan't my win 8 back! :(

[GoodBytes]

Use the latest Nvidia beta drivers. And when you install the latest drivers from Nvidia, be sure you check the box under advance/custom to do a clean install. Once done, restart your computer. If your graphic card is overclocked, don't overclock it to rule that out.

Also make sure you have the latest DirectX runtime library: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

Also, apparently the game has lots of problems on PC. Nvidia mentioned that they are working hard with the studio to get the game working properly.

Some ideas: you try try and run the game in compatibility mode (you need to set the game exe to WIn7 compaility mode, and run it from the exe not Steam.

After some search it seams that you need to turn off: exclusive full screen for almost all Nvidia GPU's

[Chunk Of Norris]

Use the latest Nvidia beta drivers. And when you install the latest drivers from Nvidia, be sure you check the box under advance/custom to do a clean install. Once done, restart your computer. If your graphic card is overclocked, don't overclock it to rule that out.

Also make sure you have the latest DirectX runtime library: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

Also, apparently the game has lots of problems on PC. Nvidia mentioned that they are working hard with the studio to get the game working properly.

Some ideas: you try try and run the game in compatibility mode (you need to set the game exe to WIn7 compaility mode, and run it from the exe not Steam.

After some search it seams that you need to turn off: exclusive full screen for almost all Nvidia GPU's

I have tried the beta drivers, I have the latest DirectX and my GPU is not overclocked at the moment. It was turning off "exclusive fullscreen" that made it work in the end, although the game crashes some times.

[X1XNobleX1X]

Not sure if you already have it working but,

I had the same problem what you have to so is change the aspect ratio in the options to suite your monitor,

So, 16:9, 16:10 etc...

Hope this helps