Could not initialize rasterizer PAI

[Falco16]

I am receiving this message as soon as I launch Battle
Realms. I was able to play this game before on Win ME,
but now that I have XP I am unable to. Does anyone know
of a way to fix this. I already have directx 9.0
installed, and tried playing both before I had 9.0 and
after. My mainboard is a SIS 630/730 with a built in
Video Card.
..

 

[Neil Dela Osa [MS]]

I tried this title out on Windows XP with a Radeon 8500 graphics adapter and
ATI Catalyst 4.2 drivers. I set the game to HIGH detail settings and it
ran okay. I played the first tutorial and the first game mission.

It sounds like the game is trying to use some type of software rendering
based on the description you provided of the problem. I hope the game is
not using one of the d3d reference rasterizers because they did not ship as
part of Windows XP or the end-user DirectX 9.0 runtime. The D3D reference
rasterizers are part of the SDK (software development kit).

Would you attach a dxdiag to this thread so I can see what display adapter
you are using? The problem may be as simple as updating your display
driver.