Hello, new here to the forums, I've been having an issue with what I believe is DirectX itself on my HP Pavilion laptop. The game client itself launches fine and I am able to log in and all that but the moment I hit play a message immediately pops up saying

"The latest version of DirectX is required to play FINAL FANTASY XIV. Please download and install the DirectX End-User Runtime, then restart the game.----(0)"

I have tried doing exactly that among a large number of things that I've seen as possible solutions and so far none of them work.
I've tried running as administrator, uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times, using DirectX 9 and so on and nothing has worked. I keep getting the same message. As a last resort figured I'd come here and see if anyone has a solution. I typically play from my desktop but sometimes when I travel or go to a friend's house I want to be able play FFXIV there as well on my laptop.
Thanks for your time