Hi, I'm new here, and working on a new computer.
I had my dad's old Dell that was running Windows98, but my grandparents gave me their newer Dell with WindowsXP, so I'm still trying to figure out my way around it. I don't even know how to find my computer's speculations on here.
Anyway, I played The Sims 2 on my old computer with an NVIDIA GeForce2 32MB video card that worked fine. When I switched over to this new computer I installed my game and all of its expansion packs but it won't work. I installed DirectX 9.0 and its drivers since I was getting that message that says, "Failed to find any DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer. The application will now terminate." I read a whole bunch of posts to a thread about this message and tried various suggestions, none of which worked.
I happened to find my video card specs. at some point (can't find them again) on this computer, and I'm pretty sure they weren't good enough to run The Sims 2. My brother tried transfering my NVIDIA card to this (newer) computer but said that it didn't fit. Is this true, or did he do something wrong? Do I need to get an NVIDIA card that will fit this computer?
I appreciate any help, thanks!
I had my dad's old Dell that was running Windows98, but my grandparents gave me their newer Dell with WindowsXP, so I'm still trying to figure out my way around it. I don't even know how to find my computer's speculations on here.
Anyway, I played The Sims 2 on my old computer with an NVIDIA GeForce2 32MB video card that worked fine. When I switched over to this new computer I installed my game and all of its expansion packs but it won't work. I installed DirectX 9.0 and its drivers since I was getting that message that says, "Failed to find any DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer. The application will now terminate." I read a whole bunch of posts to a thread about this message and tried various suggestions, none of which worked.
I happened to find my video card specs. at some point (can't find them again) on this computer, and I'm pretty sure they weren't good enough to run The Sims 2. My brother tried transfering my NVIDIA card to this (newer) computer but said that it didn't fit. Is this true, or did he do something wrong? Do I need to get an NVIDIA card that will fit this computer?
I appreciate any help, thanks!