All attempts to install DirectX end in failure

[Scott Cragle]

I have been unable to play any games on Steam because as part of the installation process, they all install DirectX 9. I have done multiple clean installs of Win11, run all Steam install attempts as admin, have tried to manually install DirectX using the DXSETUP executable that comes with Steam's _commondistr package, I have tried using the webupdate utility and have downloaded and tried to install using the standalone version. All result in some variation of the same set of errors listed in the DXerror log: -------------------- [07/07/24 11:41:49] module: dxupdate(Mar 30 2011), file: dxupda

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