Hi Danzil, yup Ive reinstalled both, but the game still says its unable to detect direct x. A new update on windows media player by the way, now when I try to play a dvd on it, it says it has experienced an error and has to close. Very odd, Media player classic still working great though.
Tried installing another game just to see if it was the Rome game itself or some system prob, Im getting the same message, unable to detect directx.
thanks,
Berenke