Quote Originally Posted by Tempy View Post
I have just been through all the recommendations by the mods on this thread, also gone through some trouble shooting via the official DirectX pages regarding repairing etc and now the issue is even worse, I now crash on pressing play. Currently the game is unplayable.
I recommend you reverse the changes recommended by the mods here. If you check page 1-2 when I tried their recommendations the issue got a lot worse for me and went back to normal (ie. crashes every 2 hours which is a hell of a stretch for the word "normal") when I reversed them.