Q: Ok I have a problem...I got the game "Rollercoaster Tycoon3:GOLD and My computer wont let me play it because the "graphic installers" or "drivers" do not meet the requirements to play the game...I scooped this up from Wikipedia.... The third game, with its increased reliance on DirectX 3D rendering, puts additional strain upon graphics cards and their drivers. Although the distribution CD-ROM comes with updated ATI Technologies drivers, it is possible that users may need to visit their graphics card manufacturer's web site to get the latest drivers and thus ensure maximum system stability. How do I go to my graphics card manufacturer's website?? How can I get the right software to play the game?? Please help!!
A: What you need to do to identify your graphics card is: Go into Control Panel--->System Icon-->Harware Tab-->Device Manager Click on the "+" sign beside Display Adapters. This should reveal the brand, name and model of your graphics card. If not, then right click on the name it does give and select PROPERTIES and open the properties box, go to the DRIVER tab and this will tell you the current driver you have. Now, note the brand, name and model of your graphics card on a piece of paper and then go here to ATI: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html Click on your operating system (XP), then your make or brand, then your model and click on GO button. This takes you to the page with your exact driver. Download ONLY THE DRIVER, not the catalyst+driver! Put the dowloaded driver into a temp folder for safekeeping. Go back to device manager and open the properties box and ROLL BACK your driver. Keep rolling back until all the drivers are uninstalled. Windows will warn you that you will not have a driver...Do it anyway! This will force Windows to use the default VGA driver at a horrible 640 x 480 resolution. Reboot the computer. Everything will be HUGE, do not worry! Go to the temp directory and click and install the ATI driver. Reboot the computer. Click on the desktop, right click, properties box, Settings tab, set to 32 bit color and use the slider to choose you resolution and you are DONE! :) If you want to use the catalyst control system to tweak settings, you must have a minimum of DirectX 9.0c and Net.Framework 2.0 which you can download from Microsoft using their update site. Do not install catalyst until you KNOW you have Net.Framework 2.0 and DirectX 9.0C on your computer or it will mess up your driver installation. The reason why I recommend a roll back of the older driver is that frequently, a newer driver will be conflicted by the older driver's presence. Thus it is important to uninstall ALL of the old drivers (there may be more than one of them in the XP driver database on your computer.