Direct 3D Device not Initialized

[HarvickFan]

Help .I have aHPpavilion a420n w/3000+(2.16GHz)AMD Athlon XP processor,
512 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM memory,
160GB 7200RPM Ultra DMA Hard Drive,
CD-RW Drive 48x24x48 max speed,DVD-ROM drive 16xMax speed,
Intergrated graphics with 64MB shared video memory,..I have Down loaded The Hobbit Game but when I try to play I get this Mess...You need a video card which supports multitexturing to run The Hobbit, The application will now exit,SSE Instructions detected,VIA/S3G unichrome,IGP ,Driver file name vtisp.dll,Vendor ox1106,device 0x00007205,Driver 0x0006000E, 000A00C2,Direct 3D Device not Initialived....can any one hepl me...any other games i play work fine...thanks

 

[WarC]

Make sure you have the latest DirectX installed, and the latest drivers for your integrated graphics card.

The error indicates that the onboard graphics doesn't have some of the hardware capabilities required to run the game but that might just be an error caused by software (bad or old drivers) - I don't see why the Unichrome graphics couldn't play the game, unless it requires advanced shaders or something.

 

[HarvickFan]

have 9.0 direct x...but how do i find up grades for my card