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Reinstalled Radeon Adrenalin Software for the Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU in my computer. Reverse clicked on an empty are of the desktop and selected the top menu item "AMD Radeon Stettings" The settings program starts up and then click on the "Gaming ...

<t> Thought DirectX 12 would be backward compatible, but downloaded DirectX 9.0c and tried to install it to be sure. Turns out that 9.0c will not install on Win 10, only earlier versions of Windows.<br/>
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Tried all your other recommendations, which were appreciated, but unfortunately didn't ...

<t> First of all, thank you for all your help. You are Great!<br/>
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Tried your earlier recommendation of removing all the AMD related software and had the drive only remaining. Re-booted, then checked to make sure there was no AMD stuff sneaking back into the works then tried to load the game ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> DxDiag Previously: Crashed in Direct3D (stage 3). Re-running DxDiag with "dontskip" command line parameter or choosing not to bypass information gathering when prompted might result in DxDiag successfully obtaining this information<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Getting the following error message: Cannot Run on HW without at least Shader Model 3.0

Brand new computer build with AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card, updated drives and DriectX 12.