Cannot start Maya 2012 64-bit

[Anonymous]

I am a student who just downloaded the free trial of the Entertainment Creation Suit (Premium version). When I finished installing and tried to open Maya 2012, however, an error window appeared. It told me that it couldn't start the program because d3dx9_42.dll is missing from my computer. It suggested reinstalling the program to fix the problem, but when I did that, nothing changed. If you could help me out, that would be great!

From: Corwin Carson

[TravisNave]

You can try reinstalling DirectX from the Autodesk media or you can download the missing DLL from the following link and place it in the C:\Windows\System32 and C:\Windows\SysWOW64 folders. 

http://dllcentral.com/d3dx9_42.dll/9.27.952.3001/download/

Reboot and try launching again.