Update Drivers
Having up to date driver Because there a many different manufactures of video and sound cards, drivers are used to translate data from these devices to the windows operating system. Think of a driver like a translator if you were to visit a foreign country.s is essential to running any new game. Video card and sound card manufacturers are constantly releasing new drivers to improve upon their products and to meet DirectX DirectX is a application programming interface created by Microsoft. DirectX allows programmers to make a game that will work on any windows computer without having to know about the specific hardware that is in the computer. EA Games require that the correct version of DirectX be installed on the computer, usually the latest version availalble. DirectX requires that video and sound drivers that match the version being used are also installed on the computer. standards.
Ensure that both your video card and sound card drivers are
up to date. Video
and sound drivers are available from your card manufacturer's web site.
A list
of manufacturers with links to their web sites can be found here. To find out what
type of card you have you can refer to the EA Help analysis or open the
DirectX diagnostic tool by selecting Start and Run then typing dxdiag dxdiag.exe, or DirectX Diagnostic is a tool that will allow you to get
important imformation about your computer..
