DirectX problem.

I'm trying to get into playing AOE on voobly. Installed the game from Steam, the patch, voobly... basically follow all the instructions. Playing the game from steam is no problem, but trying to start it up from voobly I basically get a blank error message and the game wont start. Tryed to mess around with all the directX settings (get the common DirectX tool is set, try disabling etc). Game diagnostics comes up clean.

Found multiple posts that I've tryed to follow, tryed restarting basically everything. The only thing left to do is reinstall the game and thought I'd try this first. Any suggestions?