9/14 Update Broke the Game! (Here’s how to fix it)

Some people trying to load the game after this morning’s update have been experiencing DirectX errors.  Rothgar has posted a temporary fix for this on the official forums and says that an updated file should be pushed to the patcher soon:

After this morning’s hotfix we’ve had reports of a few different issues.  So far, the issues that we’ve tracked down are related to an upgrade that we performed internally to bring our development environment up to a newer version.

Some players have reported a DirectX error when launching the game client.  This appears to be caused by systems that have not been updated to DirectX 9.0c.  If run into this problem, please download the latest DirectX 9.0 installer from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/…;displaylang=en

You may also have noticed that some zone junctions don’t appear to be working properly.  We’ve found the source of this problem and it will require a hotfix to correct it.  We’ve already fixed it internally and are planning on a hotfix Wednesday morning to take care of it.

If you experience any other issues after today that seem to be new problems, please let me know and we will look into them right away.

Thanks!

Update from Rothgar:

Just an update, we will have a fix for the missing DX9 dll later today. This update will not require server downtime and will be fixed automatically when you run the patcher.