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Subject: DirectX 9.0c or Graphic Adapters

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Name: ilove2loveyou471
Date: April 12, 2005 at 19:14:34 Pacific
Subject: DirectX 9.0c or Graphic Adapters
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home
CPU/Ram: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU

Comment:

I am really dumb whem it comes to computers and I just bought the Sims2. I installed DirectX 9.0c but when I try to play the game I get the message "Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer." I'm not really sure what this means or what i need to buy or download, any help would be greatly apprecieted

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Response Number 1

Name: Galileo
Date: April 12, 2005 at 19:41:21 Pacific
Subject: DirectX 9.0c or Graphic Adapters

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what modle is your dell? Chances are you need to buy a video-card, because you dont have one. You might have an intergraded-graphics processor thats on your motherboard thats not up to playing the graphic intence game the sims 2.

abit is7 i856pe
Prescott 2.8ghz @ 4004Mhz 286x14
FSB @ 1144Mhz
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Response Number 2

Name: Dumb Geek (by bitboy)
Date: April 13, 2005 at 20:36:52 Pacific
Subject: DirectX 9.0c or Graphic Adapters

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that means your video card is not support it. what is your video card. if its an on-board graphic card, thats the problem. buy a video card, either ATI or Nvidia. for sims2, get ATI 9600 or higer. or nvidia geforce 5700 or higher.
P4 3.2GHZ
kingstom 1GB DDR 3200
Nvidia geforce FX 5950 256mb

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Response Number 3

Name: Aligheri
Date: April 16, 2005 at 01:55:31 Pacific
Subject: DirectX 9.0c or Graphic Adapters

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Im going commit cpu homocide, for several weeks now my graphics card has been giving me crap. Whenever I play a game, it will start up fine, and then after time, the screen goes black and it goes to the desktop. After installing dx9, instead of going to the desktop,the system reboots.
Its geforce 4 ti 4200 8x agp. the mother board is a Via kt400, amd athlon xp 2200+. My card is not dx 9 compatible I dont think, would anyone know how to fix that? I've downloaded latest drivers from nvidia, windows updates,chipset updates, uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled the drivers, and dx9 and still the same crap! What should I do?

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Response Number 4

Name: Element678
Date: April 18, 2005 at 14:54:47 Pacific
Subject: DirectX 9.0c or Graphic Adapters

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Hi i just got TODAY april 18 2005 joint operations typhoon rising for my PC. I need a DirectX 9.0 graphics controller and i wanted to know how much is it? When you try to run it it says not comapatible graphics controller. I have never gotten to play the game yet. I'm very mad at this point. I'd appreciate it if you can get back to me
Thank you, aaron

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Response Number 5

Name: Element678
Date: April 18, 2005 at 14:56:45 Pacific
Subject: DirectX 9.0c or Graphic Adapters

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i ment bought joint operations typhoon rising for pc. Sorry for the typo.

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