alboy23

Hi all, I've been having an issue when trying to use SweetFX with FSX. Once extracting all the relevant files and folders into the FSX root directory (E:\FSX), FSX will not load and crashes back to desktop after a few seconds on the splash screen. I have seen various posts around this particular issue where its has been suggested that there are potential issues with a variety of areas such as; antialiasing, DX10, shaders and not having up to date drivers etc etc. Having checked all of these out, still no change. As suggested I've updated to latest Nvidia graphics driver (Clean Install), I've also turned off antiailaising but with no success. I have isolated the issue however with 1 file in particular, 'd3d9.dll'. Once i delete this file, FSX starts up fine, although SweetFX doesn't appear to work at all. It was mentioned one one particular post that SweetFX will still function without this file, although firstly I have no idea if this is accurate, and if it is in fact correct, why am I not seeing any changes? As a test I am making sure Split Screen is enabled and have also altered many of the settings (using 'FLight FX: SweetFX GUI) so I assume the difference would be quite noticeable as soon as FSX has loaded as the aircraft preview image also displays the split screen image. I have checked the log and can see the following,although I'm unsure how to locate the specific cause from this. full path: E:\FSX\ redirecting CreateDevice initialising shader environment device->GetBackBuffer failed redirecting CreateDevice initialising shader environment D3DXCreateEffectFromFile failed try to use "E:\FSX" for shader files Can anyone help to shed some light on the above to help me resolve the issues? Some additional info which might help: Intel i5-4690k Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 FSX (SP1 + SP2) Many thanks in advance Al