My PC is too new for PWI

Did you disable the antivirus?

Cause that first error is usually because the texture files are corrupt, which is pretty common when you don't disable your antivirus and exclude the client directory from all scans.

If you didn't, take care of the antivirus, and then run verify three times, reboot, and try again.

Going to need more information then. I'm pretty positive that the issue isn't with your high-end rig though.

Alright so...I had a similar problem to this not too long ago that Sylen also asked me about giving the info for. My computer is also a relatively decent (though not super by any means) higher end laptop of this year.
I did everything he asked and the 'problem' was still occurring. However...when I hit the gibberish button...it goes through and plays anyway. Have you tried just trying to play anyway? I did not bother updating my own thread/question on this because even though I still get the annoying error message every time (and I have to verify after every weekly update) I can still play the game with no issues.
Just a thought! If I am wrong though I do apologize.

Shayd - Raging Tide wrote: »

If I could run the game I wouldn't be making Support thread for it. Anyway here's Dxdiag http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=B9zmaCFQ
And I can throw in Specify but Dxdiag should give you all specs alreay.

While Dxdiag does provide a nice amount of detail in regards to audio/video, and their associated drivers, it is a far cry from complete, which is why I do ask for Speccy, because it can show me other conflicting hardware or software that does not show in DxDiag.

While everything appears to be fine in your dxdiag report, it did bring to memory an issue that I haven't seen in a very long time. If you change any of the 3D settings in your driver software, it is almost guaranteed to cause a problem with PWI. Even if you set up a custom configuration to specifically cater to PWI's interface and requirements, it borks the client. Also, I didn't see any known 3rd party video codecs that I am familiar with causing issues, but you do have Win8, with it's own inbred video encoders and decoders. I have not had a chance to check how they work with the client yet to see if they cause an issue, but it is a possibility.

In any case, post a link to a Speccy profile and I'll dig a bit deeper. Either that, or wait until I get around to re-configuring one of my unused desktops to Win8 and do some testing with the final release. (Could be a while since I'm not at all fond of Win8 =P )

1. You do have antivirus. It's included with Win8. Microsoft Security Essentials. Either disable it, or exclude the entire client directory from all of it's scans. After disabling it, verify at least 2 times, (3 is recommended), and then reboot.

2. You do have quite a lot of background processes running. A patcher for another game, carious software updaters, and possibly some hardware monitoring tools you aren't using. Especially things like 3D-Vision. If you aren't using it, just disable it.
While your system has a great CPU with multiple cores and hyprethreading, the client can't make use of any of that. Programs will typically use the first core and then divide out from there. The client can only use the first core, it won't see any others, and it won't take any advantage of advanced hyprethreading for the wait process clock. Basically, it doesn't matter how pro your CPU is, the client can't use it effectively, and other processes using it can cause a delay.
This has nothing to do with your current issue, but can impact performance once you do get the client up and running.

3. You've got too awesome video cards, which though quite impressive, don't get used by the client. The majority of the graphics load is on the CPU. You might try disabling SLI and then running the client if you still get an issue after you've fixed the antivirus and verified the files.

Shayd - Raging Tide wrote: »

Set both Launcher and patcher to run as administrator, Trying verifying files again, and as for running from folder it doesn't help in any way elementclient.exe pops up the usual DirectX Error

I'm gonna quote this to enphasize what sachelfunlol said. Try install Directx 9c on your computer.

From what I can see from screenshots, you installed Windows 8, wich comes with Directx 11.1.

Similar to Windows 7, wich comes with Directx 11, it doesn't have retrocompatibility with Directx 9. So it must be installed in your computer along with Directx 11.

Usually when you run the game for the first time on a computer, the launcher will kick Directx9 installation if it doesn't have it installed. But sometimes it doesn't do it and you need to download and install it yourself.

Also the first message could be related to some chinese fonts missing. I know it doesn't sounds like it is, but it has happened to me a few times before, when I reinstalled Windows XP I get an error message on those weirds characters, but it dissapears when I install the asian langauge packs on Windows control panel.

Downgradeing? wouldn't call it that as you are not replacing or removeing DX11... Had done the DX9 thing a few times on my rig for this game and other games... running Win7 ultimate.

Dx 9 10 and 11 installers do not include dx 9c, it must be installed specifically. Just because you use the latest installer has no bearing for 9c to be installed. 9c was an update of dx that came with service pack 2 for windows xp. For it to be installed, you either updated windows xp to sp2 or you used the 9c redist installer on later versions of windows.

It is not like this is anything new, there was at least one thread on this if not more when the pwi engine was updated to use 9c last year. Seeing how your errors are related to Dx, I find it hard to believe no one else bothered to tell you to install 9c aside the person that backed my post.

still showing the same error message?