topic DirectX error in ArcGIS Earth Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-earth-questions/directx-error/m-p/796005#M234 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have just installed ArcGIS Earth 1.7beta and received the following error on startup</P><P></P><P>Esri.ArcGISRuntime.ArcGISDirectXException: </P><P>DirectX failure D3D11CreateDevice code = 0x80070057. DirectX device creation failed</P><P></P><P>I have ran the DirectX Diagnostic Tool and found I am running DirectX 11 with all features enabled.</P><P>Any ideas what could be causing this error?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:00:58 GMT kevin_j_britton 2018-04-26T20:00:58Z DirectX error https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-earth-questions/directx-error/m-p/796005#M234 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have just installed ArcGIS Earth 1.7beta and received the following error on startup</P><P></P><P>Esri.ArcGISRuntime.ArcGISDirectXException: </P><P>DirectX failure D3D11CreateDevice code = 0x80070057. DirectX device creation failed</P><P></P><P>I have ran the DirectX Diagnostic Tool and found I am running DirectX 11 with all features enabled.</P><P>Any ideas what could be causing this error?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:00:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-earth-questions/directx-error/m-p/796005#M234 kevin_j_britton 2018-04-26T20:00:58Z Re: DirectX error https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-earth-questions/directx-error/m-p/796006#M235 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Kevin,</P><P></P><P>I also had this issue&nbsp;when I tried to run ArcGIS Earth in an almost&nbsp;clean Win7 machine. After installing some updates that Windows recommended, then ArcGIS Earth works well.</P><P></P><P>Best,</P><P>Xuewen</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Apr 2018 01:41:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-earth-questions/directx-error/m-p/796006#M235 XuewenZhang 2018-04-27T01:41:29Z