... 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.

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[waywardgaze.livejournal.com]

I had the same problem when I installed Bon Voyage - it got to the point that the monitor would just go black without an error message, and I could only restart. That was a day or so before I started reading about the SecuRom issues, and figured then that the graphics card had just died...and bought a new one. Which the game also refused to work with. Urg! Best of luck with your backups!!