I recently have been dealing with a whole slew of technical PC issues, which ultimately ended in uninstalling Windows 10 from my computer and reinstalling my old Windows 7. After much additional hassle, I've finally gotten my computer back to a largely workable order (though I'm still having some weird issues here and there... such as being unable to run WoW with MSAA turned on without getting warning beeps from my motherboard lol), and I'm in the process of reinstalling all my games.

After running the ffxivsetup file to begin installing FFXIV, it tells me that "A new version of DirectX is required for installation. Install DirectX now?" I of course click accept and click through the installation wizard... when it gets to the Installing Components step, it fails every time with the following message:



I tried to open the DXError.log, but Windows says it can't find it. When I open the DirectX.log file, I get a string of lines that I can't make sense of and I'm not sure if it's secure to post here. If it will help, let me know, and I'll c/p it to this thread. xD

Anyway, I've tried some google searching but can't really find any thread that applies to my problem. I'd like to get FFXIV reinstalled so I can go back to playing the game. Please help!