Games aren't working

Whenever I try to open Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds it just say
"Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video car
and driver are compatible with DirectDraw

Okay, I got that fixed. But now there's a different problem. All th
graphics look like it's night time. Very messed up

I'm running Windows Vista, 64 bit, in a laptop with an Intel X310
graphics card

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Sarthos

Sarthos wrote:
> Whenever I try to open Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds it just says
> "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card
> and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"
>
> Okay, I got that fixed. But now there's a different problem. All the
> graphics look like it's night time. Very messed up.
>
> I'm running Windows Vista, 64 bit, in a laptop with an Intel X3100
> graphics card.
>
>
That sounds like on-board shared graphics, not a dedicated Video card?

You are basically screwed as far as high end games on such a rig. Post
your full specs and RAM. Can you dedicate more RAM to the Graphics
chipset? Some MoBo's allow that.
If you only have 1 Gb RAM get another Gb installed.
You can also look at installing latest DX9, it goes in quite OK with the
Vista DX10.
Try running the games in WinXP Compatibility mode (right click the Games
Icon and select Properties and then play around with settings under the
COMPATIBILITY Tab

Frenchy

Sarthos <> wrote in
news::

>
> Whenever I try to open Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds it just says
> "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card
> and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"
>
> Okay, I got that fixed. But now there's a different problem. All the
> graphics look like it's night time. Very messed up.
>
> I'm running Windows Vista, 64 bit, in a laptop with an Intel X3100
> graphics card.
>
>

http://www.microsoft.com/directx

follow the links for gamers, and get the latest version of DirectX. You
should end up with a dxwebsetup.exe file, run that, then try SW again.

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-A.