Recently for some weird reason anytime I try and load a PC game like The SIMS 2, I get this error message http://img131.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc235&image=28226_ERROR.JPG

I have the lastest DirectX 9.0 installed and everything and my computer has never done this before!

Can anyone HELP me fix this please

~LumoWhat graphics card do you have? Is it DirectX 9 capable? Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but just having DirectX 9 installed in Windows does not necessarily mean you can run applications requiring DirectX 9. You must still have a video card that SUPPORTS it. I suspect I would have the same problem you're having if I tried to play that game. I have DirectX 9 installed in Windows, but I believe my nVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 video card only supports up to DirectX 8.That is correct. We need to know the graphics card to see if the SIms 2 will ever work on that machine, regardless of Direct XWell I have been playing the sims 2 on this computer for weeks...It was even working the day before all this started happening.

:-/Be that as it MAY, what graphics adapter is in there? Use Everest if not sure:

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181Well I'm not too sure my way around Everast...But I clicked On GPU and it says

nVIDIA GeForce

is that my graphic adpater...I'm not too sure :-?Where did you go to "clicked On GPU"? Anyway, yes, that's your adapter. You should see the full name of your display adapter in Device Manager under Display adapters. You can also get some info on it by running dxdiag (START, Run, and enter dxdiag in the Run box) and selecting the Display tab.

In fact, I suggest you run the tests that you see when you run dxdiag. Were they all successful?