My son has taken to playing an online role-playing game, RF Online.
Unfortunately, his big brother is hogging our main PC, so I have installed it onto a spare PC which is quite old.
It's a Gateway E-3400 running WinXP with, as far as I know, an onboard graphics card. As soon as I run the game, I get the message "Direct 3D : CreateDevice Failure".
I have run DXDIAG and everything is OK (DirectX version 9c), although there are a couple of messages saying "32-bit Rendering is not supported. Modern 3D games may require it." & "Hardware Transform & Lighting is not supported. Modern 3D games may require it.".
I suspect that this is the problem, but if so, how do I resolve it, is it a question of just adding a new Graphics Card ? If so, what card can I get that will run on this PC (the M/B may be a Rev. A+ CS65-SC/SU ... I say "may be" as there is a PDF manual for this board on the Desktop !!) that won't break the bank ?!?
If this is not the problem, is there anything else that it could be ?
Thanks in advance ...
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