Turns out, on further investigation, I can't reinstall DirectX 9 anyway....I tried to after I noticed a similar problem crop up with VLC Player and Media Player Classic. All the installer says is "The installed components are ready for use," without…
Well, if DirectX 11 is working just fine for me and not causing any problems (textures are actually loading faster with DX11), I'll just stick with this.
Thinking more on it, it might not be a bad idea to note this in a support forum. "I…
I didn't do a thing to stop the problem from occurring.
Out of your suggestions, the very first (and only) thing I tried was switching to DX11, and lo and behold, that has solved the issue. I ran around the sandbox for ~10 minutes with n…
Okay, now the problems have grown somewhat more severe, but the original problem has gone away. Now, I can access the Commander Box and Armory locations fine, but the game will graphically hang a variable amount of time later. Sometimes, it'll even …
All files were successfully validated through Steam. The options file is not applicable, since it was the very first time I started the game. Edit: Also, deleting it did not fix the issue.