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jstubbles:
Arparso, I have Nexus on Steam, so it just installed whatever was there. I went online and tried to installed the oldest Dx runtimes from the Mircrosoft site, which were from 2006. But the converter still didn't work :( It shows up in processes but doesn't run.

Dragon, thanks for looking that up. I tried all three suggestions and none of them worked.

I guess I'm done modding for Nexus :(

The Old Dragon:
Hmmm, if possible, do you have an older machine / OS that you can try installing Nexus on?

Other than that, is there anyone else you can ask to do the conversions for you? At least then you'd have the option of working on Nexus.

jstubbles:
Nah, I don't have another machine to test it on.
I've tried everything I can think of, short of reformatting again. I've installed virtual env installs of Windows, which had the same result. Tried multiple DX installs, C++ runtimes and a bunch of other crap I found online. Nothing worked.

Strange thing is, when I run the model viewer and load a mesh, it uses the damn converter to convert the textures. So the converter IS working. I just can't get that damned UI to work and it's pissing me off!! I'm at a loss here. I would just load models into the viewer to convert textures, but it won't give me the options to tweak compression, create bump variants and such.

Also, Arparso was awesome enough to help me out quite lot today. He also tried virtual OS installs and clean installs of Nexus - he got the same results from the converter. It loads into the processes tab in Task Manager but that's it - it never showed up. So at least it's reproduceable.

When I have more time, maybe next weekend, I'll format again. If that doesn't fix it, I'm done with Nexus.

jstubbles:
You'll love this, though. I still have my old windows 7 install hooked up on my old RAID array. So, I decided to boot up that install instead. Guess what? The converter WORKS.

WHAT.THE.HELL.

Could there possibly be a conflict with having those harddrives connected still? I don't see how. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game while running Windows on my SSD drive. I don't get it :|

They are both windows 7 installs. Only thing I can think of is that one of the windows updates did something. This version I'm on right now is the old one and needs 26 "important" updates and 42 "optional" updates. I think I installed everything on my other SSD install. I dont even know where to start troubleshooting this :|

jstubbles:
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Sovled it :)
The harder the problem, the easier the solution, I tell ya. I spent the ENTIRE DAY trying to solve this issue, got nothing done. And what did it boil down to? The converter apparently gets graphics card driver conflicts. I installed an older driver that my other windows install was using (about 3 months old) then BAM - converter UI is working perfect again. :D

It's unfortunate I didn't get any work done today because I was troubleshooting it, but at least now it's working and I know how to fix it in the future. Thanks for all the help!

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