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xvxarmond

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Please help, i'm going crazy

my room mate is lending me his computer(he has a few to spare) and his away till next week and i went out to buy this sim's cd's again to play but when i go to play the game it says:
"failed to find any directx 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! please make sure you have a dirctx 9.0 compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer."

now ---- I have tired EVERYTHING and NOWHERE on this computer dose it say anything about what kind of video card he has...he has some card that the computer dose not read or something but it still works great for online games.
I've installed the new directx, and reinstalled it...cant find away to uninstall it and not sure what that would do if i did....
i just wann aplay the game.... :tazz:


please..........=/
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xvxarmond

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its a RADEON 9700 PRO but now i can't find where to DL new drivers or whatever to make the game work=-/
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Please help, i'm going crazy

my room mate is lending me his computer(he has a few to spare) and his away till next week and i went out to buy this sim's cd's again to play but when i go to play the game it says:
"failed to find any directx 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! please make sure you have a dirctx 9.0 compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer."

now ---- I have tired EVERYTHING and NOWHERE on this computer dose it say anything about what kind of video card he has...he has some card that the computer dose not read or something but it still works great for online games.
I've installed the new directx, and reinstalled it...cant find away to uninstall it and not sure what that would do if i did....
i just wann aplay the game.... :tazz:
please..........=/

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Dont you need to download a new video/graphics card thing? it worked for me. i got those signs.
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LMAO, go to ATI.com and get the drivers from them.
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