Game won't launch

[Jacksmagee]

Hello I’ve been having this problem where as soon as I launch the game through steam nothing happens. So I tried launching it manually through the program files and I get an error message reading “THE PROGRAM CAN’T START BECAUSE d3dx9_41.dll IS MISSING FROM YOUR COMPUTER. TRY REINSTALLING TO FIX THIS PROBLEM”. I tried reinstalling and the same error message pops up . What do I do? P.S. the same is happening for the first GSB as well. P.P.S. I’ve also updated to windows 10 recently and if that’s the problem how do I go back to Windows Professional?

I just got the game off steam sales and haven’t even been able to play it once.

[cliffski]

Hi, this is very strange, that file should be sat right there next to GSB2.exe. If yuo look in windows explorer, inside steam/steamapps/common/gratuitous space battles2… is that dll physically there?

[Oltelo]

try to run as administrator, it helped me!