The M2TW hardware thread: please post all hardware queries here

**Laconic** · 01-06-2007, 20:08

I may be wrong, but I think the extra four gigabytes is for temporary files when installing the game. You have to have that much free to set everything up, but in the end it will only use seven gigs on your drive (unless you unpack your datapacks, in which case it will be considerably larger).

**Andriejj** · 01-06-2007, 21:49

Thanks for help. Do you know if there are any possibilities during instalation- can you choose from medium, small, full instalations or sth like that?

**Laconic** · 01-06-2007, 21:55

Nope. It's been years since I've seen that sort of option on a game, you have to install everything.

**Andriejj** · 01-07-2007, 08:17

That sucks. I have a small 40 GB disk divided into to parts and on the part where the system is I can make at most 10 GB free space :/ It's not only my computer.

**sapi** · 01-07-2007, 09:03

Well, if there is a bright side to your situation, it's that hard drives aren't really that expensive these days (although if it's an old computer you'll need to buy a converter and if it's a laptop you're in trouble)

**Quirinus** · 01-08-2007, 14:26

Uh, I'm not sure if my question is about hardware, but I've just installed the game, and when I tried to open it it says "Unable to Locate Component-- This application has failed to start because d3dx9_30.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

Well, I've re-installed the programme twice, but the problem persists. Can someone tell me what is wrong, and how to remedy it?

Thanks in advance, and sorry if I posted in the wrong place.

**sapi** · 01-09-2007, 05:10

You need to install the latest version of directx from here.

There's a windows validation process to go through but it's not much hassle, and then you can download the installer. The initial installer is around 500kb and the file itself 14mb, so it shouldn't be too much trouble.

Oh, and welcome to the org