Windows 10: Creators Fall and DirectX ... new version??

Greetings.
After Creator Fall is installed some (but not all??) dx11 games starts with a black monitor. ctrl+alt+del to start task manager and kill the game. Reboot does not help. reinstall the game does not help, uninstall graphic driver (and reinstall of course) does not help.

But reinstall the directX version from "Project Car 2", do fix it!!! Then every game works fine, undtil next reboot. Then the same games starts with a blank monitor.

Is this a problem that can be solved with a clean install? Or any other ideas? *Smile

:)

 

Windows 10 to Windows 1709 version

Get the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4028685/windows-10-get-the-fall-creators-update

Check this for the features: What’s New in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, Available Now

 

Frame rates may drop on some DirectX 9 games at high fps (>120fps) after installing Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Since installing the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the average frame rate of my DirectX 9 game has dropped when I play at high frame rates (e.g. > 120 fps) in full-screen mode. Is there something I can do to fix this?

 

I don't do gaming, but here is something very similar on the Steam Forum. Take a quick look:

Post Windows 10 Upgrade - All Steam Games Black Screen With Sound :: Help and Tips

Black screen on startup with game running in the background / no signal fix :: Alien: Isolation General Discussions

 

Yes, the error i your link loos a lot like mine, but not exactly. When I alt tab to desktop the game window is still just a black square, but yes, the game is still running. I will try to see if this fixes it

 

Well... seems latest stable drivers have a lot of issues (specially VGAs), try to revert to an older version and see if the games go back to normal, if not, your best bet is trying betas to see if the issues are fixed.

AMD cards have a similar issue, but seems they are working on them in the beta drivers.

 

Saw something in Feedback that may help. Disable your on-board graphics (Intel HD something?) and just run the NVidia.

 

DirectX doesn't seem to be the problem, but rather a GPU driver issue. BTW I just finished playing around with both Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Fallout: New Vegas and had no issues. I'm running a AMD R9 Fury card using the latest Crimson drivers - the same ones before the FCU update.

Anyway try looking at your GPU drivers.

Edit to say these are Steam based games. Next try is some Origin games like Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Will post any errors.

 

Onboard is disabled in BIOS.

Driver for Nvidia is the same as before FCU. FCU must have made "something" to directx, as the error is completely gone when installing the directX version from the "Project Car 2" install-dir. Not just PC2 is working, but all my dx 11 games. Until reboot.

I don't have the Alien game mentioned in #1 link. I'm trying to look for the same for F1 2016, but without finding these files. So I can't test it this way.

I guess I have to either revert back to before FCU, or reinstall directx every time I want to play a game *sarc

 

You don't need to reinstall DirectX every time you want to play a game unless you choose to do so *sarc

What you can do is run this and all should be good - DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)

 

I have now tried your version #8, and it is the same. It works until reboot, and then the games won't show graphic again. If I then reinstall from your link, everything works until next reboot. So it does not solve it anymore than the version from Project Cars 2.

 

Wow... I assume this affects decoding and programs that rely on DX11 rendering as well.
This only means, not FCU for me... skipping this version entirely.

Way to go MS...

 

Yeah, because the OP's issue is a huge indicator of issues to follow *sarc

I guess it wouldn't help to know there are many many more users here without issues would there? *Huh

 

A little news on my issue. Went back to an older graphic driver, and now I can clear the issue with black screen without reinstall directx after every reboot. Some games still starts with black screen, but now I can tap on the monitors "sync-rate" button, to go from 144 to 60 hz, then the picture is on, I then tap a coupple of times again, and now the game is showing picture in 144hz mode, just as the monitor was in when the game started. Is this giving any info to where to look for the error?
This I have to do every time I start one of the faulty games.

 

Shh Drew - that sounds like logic *Wink

Graphics driver. What version are you running? 378.92?

Roll back to a previous version.

The Fall update has gone to WDDM 2.3 and historically it takes a few drivers/KB updates to sort these these things out.