Help with Video card/ Direct 3DX

[carlj98]

Im having trouble playing video games on my labtop.  When I try and play a certain game a message appears saying 'Direct 3D failed to initialise, please ensure you have a compatable Direct 3d card and driver.  Ive tried reinstalling direct x 3d and updated the graphics card drivers however nothing has changed.  I have a Standard VGA Graphics Adaptor, which im fairly sure supports Direct X 3D (chipset VIA PN800/PN880).  Does anyone how i could solve this problem? or any other sites where I could try and update the drivers for this graphics card?
Thank you in advance for any answers to this problem.

[Broni]

How much video memory do you have?
What are the game requirements? What is that game, anyway? Do other games play OK?
You downloaded your drivers from here:
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=1&CatID=1070 ?

[carlj98]

The memory size is 64MB.  The game im trying to play is Championship manager 2006, I installed it last year and it worked fine which is why im soo confused.  The game requirements are 100% direct x8.1 compatible 4mb Direct x3d Card

[Broni]

Is this Windows XP?
Do you have DirectX 9.0 installed?
How about that driver link, I gave you?

[carlj98]

Its windows vista (32 i think).  Ive installed the latest direct x 10 but it didnt make i difference.  I downloaded the driver however im not 100% its installed proberly it may sound stupid but im not sure if ive installed it correctly.

[patio]

I'm skeptical that a game written in 2005/2006 will run in Vista...
I'm not finding any info even on CM2008 that says it will run on Vista.

[Broni]

Another thing to try is to run it in Win XP mode....

I downloaded the driver however im not 100% its installed proberly it may sound stupid but im not sure if ive installed it correctly.

Tell us how you installed it.