i9-9900k system refuses to run X3TC or Albion....

[Malakie]

Anyone seeing a problem that has a system config like mine:

I9-9900k
48 gb ram
GTX 1080ti Poseidon
SSD's + m.2 intel optane/SSD's
STRIX Raid 7.1 Surround Card

** NOTE: I also have an i7-3770s system I play on and it works perfectly as usual.. The i9-9900 is a 4 month old new build. I normally play X4 but was in the mood to setup and play X3 for a while.

I have installed all DirectX libraries required. All drivers are updated and current. I have uninstalled and installed the game clean, no mods of any kind.. all default settings. The game refuses to run on this system but I can take the same directory from this machine, move it to the i7 based machine and it runs perfectly. and vice versus, I have taken the perfectly running i7 build, copied it whole to the i9 system.. same result.

I have tried compatibility mode etc.. No go.. The game loads to the launcher, then from there it goes to a black screen but never gets to the animated startup logo screen. I am wondering if it is codex problem for the video animation file?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Alan Phipps]

"I am wondering if it is codex problem for the video animation file?"

We cannot help you with that or any other investigation of error reports without a current DxDiag for your i9 system. (A Public Fileshare site upload link is best here.)

BTW, X3 and it's XP-era DirectSound might not work well with 7.1 surround sound.

[Malakie]

"I am wondering if it is codex problem for the video animation file?"

We cannot help you with that or any other investigation of error reports without a current DxDiag for your i9 system. (A Public Fileshare site upload link is best here.)

BTW, X3 and it's XP-era DirectSound might not work well with 7.1 surround sound.

I was wondering about the sound as well... I am thinking either the video codex or sound is causing it... I have attached dxdiag for another bug I reported.. will dig up the link and post it again.

[Alan Phipps]

As long as the previous DxDiag you have was run after you had the X3 issues, otherwise we won't get the relevant error reports included.

[Malakie]

As long as the previous DxDiag you have was run after you had the X3 issues, otherwise we won't get the relevant error reports included.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IdzMSA ... sp=sharing

[Alan Phipps]

Thanks. I see the odd MainConcept codec and some of those have proven problematic with X2/X3 games in the past, however there are no X3-related error reports in the DxDiag list. You might try running another DxDiag shortly after an X3 crash/hang. There are several other quite serious reports such as LiveKernelEvent and BEX64 though.

These errors may indicate that a background application is interfering with the launch of other applications - typically antivirus or protection applications, or even just apps that report system and other app usage 'back home' over the internet. This is not in any way definite though.