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Jan 13, 2014

I am missing direct 3d in my registry editor, and I think that is why I am having problems. The problem is that I can't run games for example when I start Bioshock infinite, after a couple of seconds or minutes it goes black. I've had this game installed on another computer with the same specs where it was working perfectly fine.

At first it said I'm missing direct 3d. but when i tried to install directx again it said i already had the latest version.

I have all the latest drivers for my devices, and a power supply on a 1000w.

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I then opened up "dxdiag".The 64bit version said "Enabled" for all three as you can see below:

But when I opened the 32bit one, first it said this:

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What have I tried:

1- As seen from some tutorials around the web, I went to Advanced Display settings but no troubleshoot tab was found:

So yeah, no moving the slider to right side to give 'Full' Direct3D/Hardware acceleration. Those XP days are long gone.

2- As stated above, I have updated the video drivers to 'Intel's' latest version. ( Also tried the second latest version just in case).

3- Updated the DirectX through web setup. It now says that newer or equivalent version is already installed. Also installed DirectX 9.0c (June 2010) all to no avail.

4- As referred by many people, I have checked this link: direct3D acceleration is not available in Windows 7 - Microsoft Community (look at the answer)
There is no "SoftwareOnly" registry key that I could change from 0 to 1.

5- Note that this problem persist only in 32bit Direct3D using applications NOT 64bit. The driver works well for the 64bit apps.

Now from what is stated above, it is clear that this issue caused by Intel's driver but it may also be a Windows problem too. And I think I am currently running out of options here. WDDM drivers are nice but wouldn't it be great if you could have OpenGL v1.4 along with Direct3D enabled? So I could run things like Minecraft. As a side note, a year ago I had Windows 7 32bit installed having latest Intel's drivers and with Direct3D enabled without an issue. Now this problem either could be because of Windows 8 or drivers.

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