Games refusing to launch due to DirectX problem, but dxdiag reports no problems

[Travis Nebeker]

My old laptop died and I transferred its SSD into my new laptop. Since it had a bunch of old drivers that didn't match the new hardware, I had to replace all the drivers manually and I'm not entirely sure I did it correctly.The new laptop is an HP Victus 15 which shipped with an Intel iGPU and an NVIDIA RTX 3050 dGPU. I used DDU in Safe Mode to wipe the old drivers and then installed the ones recommended by Intel and NVIDIA directly for Win 10 / RTX 3000 series. The rest of the drivers that had to be updated, I grabbed the ones recommended on Driver Identifier.Some games, like Civilization V a

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