video card? Ok, so I posted before and no one helped me which was this: Ok..so I keep getting the "directx" message when I start the sims 2. This has happened to me countless times, and each time I have easily been able to fix this problem, except this time. System: Windows XP home System Man- NVIDIA Processor- AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800 Memory-1024MB RAM DirextX version: DirectX 9.0c ATI Radeon 9550/X1050 series Manufacturer: ATI Tech Chip Type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor AGP Total Mem: 256.0MB DirectDraw Acceleration: Enabled Direct3D - enabled AGP Texture - N/A at the bottom it says 'No problems found". When I run the "Test Direct3D" it says "failure at step 7" "failure at step 8" "failure at step 9" A couple of days ago I played the sims and it was fine, then suddenly today that message pops up. I updated my drivers (I think) unless I installed the wrong ones. I went to ATI site and downloaded 9550 and the 1050 ones..I don't know how to fix this problem. Ok so now.. I'm not sure if no one knows how to fix this or what. Can someone tell me at least if this means I need a new video card or something? Because everything is up to date, or should be. thanks.
Could be an improper installation with DirectX 9.0C. I would recommend installing it again from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&DisplayLang=en
