error starting SIMS 2!

Time for a video card

How do i get a video card??

You have to buy one from a PC shop im afraid. Yea, as Knut and nxs say, if it says n/a in dxdiag then i dont think you'll be able to play Sims2 without spending some money on an upgrade or a new machine that can do 'directx9.0c'. You should ask at your local PC store. Depends how much you wanna play the game really! IMHO its not worth spending hundreds on to play one game!

Hope you sort it!

My game has worked before.I have to reinstall windows xp because my computer was full of stuff that wasn't needed.And when I did that I couldn't get my game to start working again.

Right click on MY Computer and select properties click Hardware tab
then Device Manager. Click on the + next to Display adapter
and post the image here.

when i right click on my computer there is no hardware tab :Oo:

Hey lilu, hmm if it worked before on your current machine then you should be able to play it.

Knut says to right click 'my computer', then select 'properties', and then click on the 'harware' tab. then on the 'device manager' button, and then on the little '+' next to where it says display adaptor.

Then either take a screenshot and post it here, or just tell us exactly what it says under display adaptor after you've clicked the little '+'. That will definitely tell us the name of your video chip/card.

When i right click on my computer and the properties then the only tabs are general and shortcut.

That’s because it is a shortcut.

If you click on Find Target (at shortcut tab) another window with a My Computer icon should show up.
Right click on that one and select properties.

Or

try Start>Settings>Control Panel>System.

ohhh ;) sorry bout that well i couldn't find display adapter.

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