MTA:SA 1.04 refuses to launch on Win7 64Bit

[Hexile]

Hello

I'm having big issues launching/playing MTA:SA, here is a small log of what have happened:

1: Ran MTA:SA 1.02 for a while and it worked in the map editor, but not when connected to a server, it also froze up randomly

2: Updated to v. 1.03 and it worked for a while without problems, when it didn't all I did was changing the following:

* Compabillity Mode

* Run as Admin

* Forced resolution

* Disable advanced visual themes

3: Some how it totally stopped working, only showed splash screen then crashed

4: Updated to 1.04 and now the splash screen doesn't even show up

Additional Information:

I'm using a DLL to run SA-MP on HD [1280*720] (without it SA-MP stops working)

I'm running MTA as Admin

I'm running GTA_SA.EXE as Admin

Single Player GTA works fine

I have used the DLL patch since sometime when MTA 1.03 was working

Could someone help me out?

And no, I dont think it's a cause of the DLL, if it was, why did it work with MTA in the first place ?

EDIT: I searched the forums before creating this topic, but didn't find anything that seemed to help

[Towncivilian]

Try removing your resolution DLL and see if it runs.

[Hexile]

I still don't understand why 1.03 suddenly stopped working

And i have tried to launch MTA without the DLL patch

Also, i removed the SET file for GTA:SA

None of them worked

So, got any more clever ideas ?

[Towncivilian]

Delete \MTA\D3DX9_42.dll and see if MTA launches. Also make sure your DirectX runtimes are current.

[Hexile]

I moved the D3DX9_42.DLL out of the San Andreas

Also, I tried that with the 2 other unknown DLL's I got, named D3DX9_25.DLL and D3DX9_33.DLL

Without them or with them Single Player GTA works fine

But still, it wont work...

[Towncivilian]

Try installing GTASA & MTA.

[Hexile]

I have tried to reinstall MTA also, it did change something: Now i crash after splash screen comes up

And I can't reinstall SA because my disc is broken and I only got backups of the game folder, not the DVD

[Towncivilian]

If your backup of the game folder is an untouched copy you made right after a clean installation, that will work fine.

[Hexile]

I used a backup to create an "untouched" version, installed MTA into it, and the map editor seems to work

I haven't tested joining a server or such, but i think it would work

Edit: Thanks for the help