I’m sorry to hear that, have you tried running it as administrator and in Windows XP compatibility mode? This game is a little sensitive to stuff
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That's very unfortunate, I'm afraid I can't provide a better solution for now. The best you could do is maybe try to download DirectX9 from Microsoft's page and hope it doesn't need administrator permission: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34429