Originally posted by missblueeyez064:
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496 MB of RAM running on WinXP. And as of this time I have: S3 Graphics Twister HP with a memory of 16.o MB.
Now I am curious...if I just download a different driver that supports Direct X 9.0, will that solve the problem? <snip>
I note the minimum requirement for this game is 32 meg graphics card memory. Your card obviously shares system memory (ie you have 512 and it is using 16 = 496). It is usually possible to set the amount of shared graphics memory in the BIOS - press delete or whatever key at startup to enter the BIOS and change the shared memory to 32 or 64 megs.
Having said that, I imagine the vast majority of these problems would be solved by up[censored] your videocard drivers. Go start - run - and type 'dxdiag' : this should open the direct x diagnostic utility. On the first page it will tell you what version of direct x you have. On the third tab labelled 'display' it will tell you if direct 3d acceleration etc are enabled. They obviously need to be for this game. Run the tests. If there is some problem with DirectX9 functionality in the graphics card driver it should tell you down the bottom.
Regardless, ensure you have the latest drivers for the card in your system. They could be from your system manufacturer, but quite often the best ones are generic drivers from your chipset manufacturer (in this case S3 - ie s3graphics.com)
Go control panel- display - settings - advanced - adaptor- properties - driver - driver details: note the driver version. Install whatever driver you can find on the web, and ensure it is a later version.
Good luck
