Played for years, now I "Don't meet Min Requirements""

Age of Empires III: DE Ask for Help
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I have played this game for years with no issue, now all of a sudden I get this:

Your video hardware does not support DirectX 11 which is required for Age of Empires III DE.

Age of Empires III DE requires at least a 1 GB video card. This computer appears to have a 0 MB video card.

Your video hardware does not support DirectX 11 which is required for Age of Empires III DE.

Event viewer shows:

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MSGPBoston_100.15.59076.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\AoE3DE.exe

What’s even weirder is I got this message, but then managed to get in after restart for a few games, but now I am getting this all over again. I have tried everything in the book, uninstall/reinstall AOE/DirectX/Microsoft Redist, verify integrity, clean boot, modified graphics setting, removed all mods and manually checked all the files for any outliers. I have no idea where to go from here.

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Do you have multiple gpus?
Tell us your PC specs please.

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This is usually a driver problem. Perform a clean install of the driver. If that doesn’t work, you may need to clean reinstall windows.

There is a rare chance your GPU might be faulty though.

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It was driver issue. I had to unistall/reinstall GeForce. For whatever reason, it was saying I was up to date even though I was a few versions behind. I downloaded the driver update directly from the website since GeForce would not update it.

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The Geforce software sux, avoid using it. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was responsible for messing your drivers.