createswapchainforhwnd - Access denied

Hi guys!

After a couple of months - maybe a year - I have a bit of a free time to play a little bit of PoE again, so I downloaded the game again, installed it (by running the installer as administrator), but when I launch the game, the black (loading..?) screen comes, along with a small window that says:

Exception
createswapchainforhwnd - Access denied

I tried to downgrade from directX 11 to 9.0c, but didn't work.

My config is the same as when the game were running smooth (~a year ago):
AMD FX6350 6 core cpu
8,00 Gb RAM
AMD Radeon HD 7350 graphics
Windows10 64bit

Any suggestion / help are very much appreciated!
Last bumped on Feb 6, 2023, 6:49:56 AM
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Jimmy7777777 wrote:
Hi guys!

After a couple of months - maybe a year - I have a bit of a free time to play a little bit of PoE again, so I downloaded the game again, installed it (by running the installer as administrator), but when I launch the game, the black (loading..?) screen comes, along with a small window that says:

Exception
createswapchainforhwnd - Access denied

I tried to downgrade from directX 11 to 9.0c, but didn't work.

My config is the same as when the game were running smooth (~a year ago):
AMD FX6350 6 core cpu
8,00 Gb RAM
AMD Radeon HD 7350 graphics
Windows10 64bit

Any suggestion / help are very much appreciated!


DX9 was removed from the game several years ago.

There is only DX11, Vulcan or DX12 (beta).
In general I use DX 11 of course, I just read in an older forum yesterday that for someone, who had the same issue as me, it worked when he downgraded to DX 9.0c.

That's why I tried..

Do you have any suggestions?
Anyone having the same issue?

I can't make it work..
I managed to fix the problem.

For anyone having the same issue:

Check if you have anything that can be updated at the Windows Update tab,
I had outdated softwares that caused the game to produce this createswapchainforhwnd problem.

Hope it helps for everyone!

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