purpldrgn1956b
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I have a Dell 4550 with XP Home Service Pack 2
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz
2.66GHZ, 512 MB of RAM
The video card is 128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9700
Just recently I have been getting error messages when I try to play games I have had for a long time and never had any problems before...
They seem to have to do with 3D or maybe Direct X...maybe its the drivers..whatever it is I don't know what, or how to fix...
Here are some of the error messages I get:
~Unable to initialize DirectX drivers. It is most probably caused by a video or DirectX drivers which are outdated or not installed properly or insufficient video card capabilities. Please note that the game requires #D-accelerated video card with 8MB or more video RAM and properly installed video drivers (most recent version) and DirectX 8.0 or higher to launch.~
~Default video card doesn't support stensil buffer.~
~No compatible display devices found.~
These error messages came from 3 different games...that I have played many times before.





Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz
2.66GHZ, 512 MB of RAM
The video card is 128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9700
Just recently I have been getting error messages when I try to play games I have had for a long time and never had any problems before...
They seem to have to do with 3D or maybe Direct X...maybe its the drivers..whatever it is I don't know what, or how to fix...
Here are some of the error messages I get:
~Unable to initialize DirectX drivers. It is most probably caused by a video or DirectX drivers which are outdated or not installed properly or insufficient video card capabilities. Please note that the game requires #D-accelerated video card with 8MB or more video RAM and properly installed video drivers (most recent version) and DirectX 8.0 or higher to launch.~
~Default video card doesn't support stensil buffer.~
~No compatible display devices found.~
These error messages came from 3 different games...that I have played many times before.