HI i know that you have been through this with other people, but as i know absoloutly NOTHING about computers...it all seems a bit confusing to me! I installed the sims got the directX thingy thing come up and something about my video card??? I odnt know how to find my video card, dispite readign on here how to find it. And i have read things about putting a new chip of some kind in your pc to make the sims 2 work...im sooo confused!