Im having trouble playing video games on my labtop. When I try and play a certain game a message appears saying 'Direct 3D failed to initialise, please ensure you have a compatable Direct 3d card and driver. Ive tried reinstalling direct x 3d and updated the GRAPHICS card drivers however nothing has changed. I have a Standard VGA Graphics Adaptor, which im fairly sure supports Direct X 3D (chipset VIA PN800/PN880). Does anyone how i COULD solve this problem? or any other sites where I could try and update the drivers for this graphics card?
Thank you in advance for any answers to this problem.How much video memory do you have?
What are the game requirements? What is that game, anyway? Do other games play OK?
You downloaded your drivers from here:
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=1&CatID=1070 ?The memory size is 64MB. The game im trying to play is Championship manager 2006, I INSTALLED it last year and it worked fine which is why im soo confused. The game requirements are 100% direct x8.1 compatible 4mb Direct x3d CardIs this Windows XP?
Do you have DirectX 9.0 installed?
How about that driver link, I gave you?Its windows vista (32 i think). Ive installed the latest direct x 10 but it didnt make i difference. I downloaded the driver however im not 100% its installed proberly it may sound stupid but im not sure if ive installed it correctly.I'm skeptical that a game written in 2005/2006 will run in Vista...
I'm not finding any info even on CM2008 that SAYS it will run on Vista.Another thing to try is to run it in Win XP mode....

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I downloaded the driver however im not 100% its installed proberly it may sound stupid but im not sure if ive installed it correctly.