Can't get games to play on my computer? Help! WinXP Home, 512mb ram, 10gb hd, intel 82801AA AC'97 audio ?

Question

controller; Legacy Audio Drivers. Have also loaded DirectX 9.0 driver. The games still won't run; keep getting DirectX Error. "can't create D3D device:D3DERR_INVALIDCALL". Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks

Answer 1

This is a ccs v3.0 problem.

When using Sis graphics card you have to download the original Sis driver from taiwan and not from uk, germany or any other mirrors, only taiwan-drivers are updated regularly.

Answer 2

It looks like your pc does not support 3D or is not ready for it sorry.

Answer 3

well judging from the specs i would say its pretty old so the video card is probably the main source of the problem but i can't say for sure that upgrading it will completely solve all issues.  

Answer 4

It is posible that you dont have enough CPU power and Video CPU power.

If its a new game. Your Graphics adaptor should support. Pixel Shader which some of the new games needed for your graphics adaptor to support. Even if you have DX9c installled.

Answer 5

How new is the game? with 512mb RAM these days is barely enough to run windows. If its a new game, your graphic card may not have the power to run it. But that depends on the game. If its a new game that came out recently, unless you have a video card with about 256 or 512 memory on it (Not the ram of the computer) the game will not run and you will get directx errors. I was getting DirectX errors on a few game and went out and bought a video card with 512 memory on it and works fine.

However getting a new video card may not solve the problem. As old as your computer reads, probably going to have to upgrade it or buy a new one, depending if the motherboard or processor has been upgrade recently. Otherwise i probably look into a new computer instead of just a video card.

Answer 6

I would guess that your videocard is either integrated or very old, and is unable to run newer games.

Go to control panel->preformance and maintainance->see basic info about computer->hardware tab->device manager->display adaptor

This will tell you your video card. You can look online for info on how advanced of a game it will run. Judging from the other info that you gave, i would suspect that it is too old and you will need a new video card/computer to run new games.