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Hey i would really appreciate some help regarding this as ive been scratching my poor little head for weeks now without any resolve. Ive been playing the sims 2 on my laptop for 1 and a half years now all expansions (its a specific gaming lappy b4 anyone says laptops arnt god for games!) she runs like a dream ive never had any problems runing the game before. I stopped playing for a few weeks, deadlines for final yar uni work and stuff, nothing new added to the pc and i turn on the game and low and behold i get the messgae Failed to find any Directx 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a Directx compatible graphics adapter and hve installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer. The application will now terminate Obviously my research has told e to install directx, my card doesnt support it blah blah .... well none of this is relevant to me because obviously i have beeen running it no problems for well over a year. There is no help i can find as to why i suddenly cant play anymore. I have tried to reinstall direct x, and also my graphics card driver nothing seems to work and im so confused id love to get my game going again anyone suggest anything that might help?? My lapy is a QT64, running windows xp I have an ATI mobility X700 card, 256 mb. i also have an AMD Turion 64 proc, 1gb ram.

I have the windows disk and the drivers disk, but i have tried this again it asks me to insert the ati technologies disk which i dont have?!

Originally Posted By: Myke You should definitely try to install the VGA adaptder. How do i do that? Thanks for all ur help i really appreciate it, i know i dont really want to do a reinstall, ive had to do it once b4.....ill try roll back.... cheers edit: well i did that and its asked me to inser the ATI technologies disk... I dont have that, it didnt come with it

ok well i downloaded the programme it says i cant uninstall: DX BACKUP FILES CAN BE FOUND, CAN NOT OPERATE i dont really know what else to do?!? I already have my drivers ready to reinstall for the grahics card, but as i said i cant because i get an error message for the ati display driver - says cant find any driver compatible with current hardwere operating system and aslo setup was unable to complete the insilation please try to set up ur display adater with a standard vga driver before runnng setup?! maybe i need to wipe my pc? and start over from factory settings?

how do i uninstall directx? sorry im not great with computers I did try to reinstall the cards drivers but i cant, i get a message telling me it cant reinstall the driver and i need to reinstall the VGA driver first?!? whatever that means?