[young_31520]

OKAY I NEED HELP WITH THE SIMS 2. EVERYTIME I TRY TO PLAY IT ,IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT "DIRECTX 9.0 COMPATIBLE ADAPTER".
CAN ANY ONE HELP ME. HERES MY INFO ABOUT MY COMPUTER:


NAME: INTEL®810 CHIPSET GRAPHICS DRIVER PV 2.1
MANUFACTURER: INTEL CORPORATION
CHIP TYPE: N/A
DAC TYPE: N/A
APPROX. TOTAL MEMORY: 3.0MB
CURRENT DISPLAY MODE: 800x600(16Bit)(OPTIMAL REFRESH RATE)
MONITOR: HP D5258A PAVILION M50 MONITOR


IF YOU HAVE A SOLUTION
PLEASE HELP ME!

[FuryofFive]

that really tells nothing...
u need to download directX 9.0c just goto microsoft.com and search for directX... try that

[DosFreak]

If you specs are correct then you have too little video memory for the Sims 2. If there is an AGP aperture setting in your BIOS then try setting it to 64meg or higher but even then your video card is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too ancient for Sims 2.

[Wilhelmus]

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Video cards supported with the Sims 2

ATI Radeon Series (7000 or better)
- Radeon 7000/VE Series (no Hardware T&L, 2.0 GHz Processor needed)
- 7200, 7500
- 8500, All-In-Wonder 8500
- 9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800
- X300, X600, X800

Nvidia Quadro Series
- Quadro, Quadro2, Quadro4

Nvidia GeForce Series (GeForce 2 or better)
- GeForce2
- GeForce3, 3 Ti
- GeForce4, 4Ti, MX 420, 440
- GeForce FX 5200, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950
- GeForce 6600, 6800

Intel Extreme Graphics (no Hardware T&L, 2.0 GHz Processor needed)
- 82845, 82865, 82915

Users of the Intel Extreme Graphics series or the Radeon VE series will need a 2Ghz processor as these cards don't support T&L.

List of unsupported video cards

ATI Rage Fury
Matrox Millennium G400
Matrox Millennium G550
NVIDIA Riva TNT2
Matrox Parhelia
ST Micro KYRO
S3 DeltaChrome S8
SiS 315
Trident Blade XP
SiS Xabre 400
XGI Volari