[AJSoroy]

Weird, I seem to be like the only person I know who hasn't complained about STEAM or had problems with it in the slightest.

[AJSoroy]

Bump, Again.

Also; I decided to run my computer in Safe Mode and try it then, but still to no avail. I believe the Direct X Component is overall failing, because now I'm having problems where plugging in a device will require me to restart my current program for it to work, and as for applications in general, detecting devices or going into some setup windows that automaticly detect software will cause the program in question to crash.

[Moonfog]

DxDiag has detected that there may have been a problem accessing DirectInput the last time this program was used.

AJSoroy
I have had this same problem for a few months and have finally had the time to solve it. I hope this helps you and others.

In the Device Manager I disabled Creative Game Port since I do not use my Sidewinder Controller anymore. If you have a creative sound card it would be listed under "Sound, video and game controllers".

Anyway, as soon as I disabled it and rebooted it has worked like a charm. If the problem returns I will post info.

Good Luck...

[AJSoroy]

Well, I don't have any Creative drivers or anything like that. Though I did notice that for some reason I have two mouse devices running, even though only one is plugged in. I'm gonna try uninstalling/disabling both of them and I'll see what happens.

EDIT:
Nope...

[AJSoroy]

I'm pretty much through with dealing with this problem, so I'm going to bring this up with Microsoft (though I doubt I'll get anything better than trying a system restore point or reformatting.) However, if all does fail, I'll probobly reformat and save all my old stuff. Hope it doesn't come to that though.

[Moonfog]

Does your sound card have a game port? If so you could try disabling it. You could also try using your usb to ps2 mouse adapter and plugging into the ps2 port if you have not done so.

Also try another keyboard if you have not. A non usb keyboard would be good test as well.

If all those options still fail, I would uninstall the sound card drivers and pull the card.

I would try these before I reformatted my drive...

It seems Microsoft's DirectInput is a bit buggy.

[AJSoroy]

You know, I've actually been wondering about my speakers. I was origionally planning on yanking them and trying it then, because they plug into both a sound input port and a USB port. I'm going to try starting my computer with nothing but my keyboard and mouse, and my keyboard is already a PS/2 keyboard so I've gotten that out of the way. But I'll try my gaming keyboard again just to be sure. Wish me luck, and thanks for the help.

[AJSoroy]

Well, I've finally resorted to posting my problem on the Microsoft answers Forum. That would be one of the most likely places to get answers, but I'd still like help here if anybody has their two cents to put in.

[GameKyuubi]

Wow somebody with the same problem as me. I've got exactly the same problem; it started a few weeks ago. I don't think I did anything strange or even installed anything, but all of a sudden most of my games just flat stopped starting. They all started hanging while loading. I ran dxdiag and it won't complete the scan it does at the beginning. I go to the Input tab and the information collection stops halfway and never goes further. It'd be great if we could get some sort of solution here. I tried reinstalling directx through the downloadable end-user runtimes here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
but it didn't help. :[