... and after all that installing, the game won't run.

[strangetomato]

Okay, I'm not going to freak out just yet, but when I click on the FT icon, I get this message:

Failed to enumerate any DirectX 9 compatible adapters in the system! (I just love the playful exclaimation point there. *eye roll*)

Please make sure you have a DirectX 9 compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest manufacturer provided driver.

The application will now terminate.

By graphics adapter, they're referring to my graphics card, right? (Or am I way off?) That shouldn't have changed, since my card is still in there, and I did download the latest driver. Now, the computer has been reset to square one, and this graphics card was added later, so I wonder if I need to change the settings so it's recognized, maybe. I have no idea what I need to do. I'm also using a no-cd crack to avoid SecurRom, so I wonder if that's the problem. Ugh. I guess I need to do some research here, or make another tech. call.

If anyone has any advice, I would greatly appreciate it.

Comments

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the Sims DVD had DirectX on it already. Maybe I'm wrong... hopefully I am and you can fix things up just by downloading Direct X separately.

If not, I was going to suggest that it's a secur-rom issue. I got the same error message with my Castaways disc on my other computer.

Hopefully it's not though, and it's easy to fix. *crosses fingers*

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It's working now. I had messed up the no-cd crack. No biggie. I fixed it.

I would imagine that SecurRom was wiped out when I recovered my system, so I think I'm safe there. I won't be installing any other games without a no-cd crack. Even that Spore Creature Creator demo had SecurRom on it.

Now, I just need to check my neighbourhood backups...