DirectX 9.0c compatible trouble, please help

i got 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. The application will now terminate" after trying to start up my sims apartment life. this is weird because i've played the game on my computer just last night and it worked fine. also my catalyst control center keeps telling me that the command interface encountered a problem and needs to close. any relation between the two? how do i fix this? tried restoring my PC and it didn't work. my display adaptor drive is an ATI mobility radeon hd 2600. please help! much appreciated

Make sure in that you graphic is well connected, check it in device manager and check it is working well. If everything is ok then have you updated you Catalyst recently?

Catalyst installation tells me that the setup will now terminate because apparently it cannot find any compatable driver for my hardware or system?? also device manager doesn't see anything wrong with the device.....

I am having the same problem, and I attempted to find the listed components as you described, however once I got into "Device Manager" there was no category 'Display Adapters'
I had the Sims2 program on my computer before, and there was no problem, then I needed to do a system recovery because my computer crashed. I was told by the people at Gateway that the recovery program in my computer would automatically reinstall all of my programs and have since been no help. Any answers please?

not correct

i have an ati radeon hd2400 pro with driectx 10 support, pixel shader 3.0 etc. and 256mb on it this is on the recomendadtions list for the sims 3 letalone the sims 2. so the card isnt the problem. theres something else. and when i try to reinstall it, it wont let me. i click uninstall and i get an hour glass for like 5 seconds then it dissappears and nothing happens after that. so im guessing if the ****ing software was actually good and i could uninstall it, and reinstall it, the problem would be solved. can anyone help me with a manual uninstall process?