Error!!!!!!!! Help Me Out Please!

[matnat4]

it doesn't allow me to play the game. it shows the intro and then a pop up comes up and exits out of Rise of Nations and says gathering exception data. Then the error comes up. what's up?

 

[Me__2001]

can you give your system specs and exactly what the error is

 

[matnat4]

It says nation.exe. My computer is a window me. I'm not great with computers so can u tell me what u mean.

 

[Me__2001]

when the error pops up what does it say ?

 

[matnat4]

the error says this.

Rise of Nations has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were int the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost
Then it says to tell microsoft about the problem.
Th error signature is this:
AppName: nations.exe AppVer: 1.13.4.1801 ModName: d3dgl.dll
ModVer: 1.13.4.1801 Offset: 000122c6

 

[Me__2001]

this may be of some use

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=820089

part of it states

Issue 2: After the game plays the introductory movie, you may receive a Microsoft Error Reporting dialog box with the following details:

ModName: d3dgl.dll Offset: 000122c6.

This behavior may occur if your display adapter does not have sufficient memory to run the game. To resolve this issue, you must purchase and install a video adapter that is supported by Rise of Nations. If you need help with purchasing or installing a new video adapter, contact the manufacturer of your computer.

if you can download and run this program, the i may be able to verify this

http://www.belarc.com/Programs/advisor.exe

run the program and report back with the

CPU speed
the amount of RAM
make and model of graphics card

 

[matnat4]

This is what it says: Intel pentium3 processor
866MHz with 256KB Integrated
Full Speed L2 Cache

128MB Total System Memory
Up to 11MB Allocated as Video Memory
40.0GB Hard Drive
48X MAX CD-ROM
If u need more info tell me.

 

[Me__2001]

unfortunately your graphics falls just short of the minimum system spec to play the game, the game requires 16MB and you have 11MB

the rest of your PC is fine, it just doesn't have enough graphics memory which is what is causing the error

 

[matnat4]

So what should I do?

 

[Me__2001]

im gonna assume you dont intend to play some of the high end games like doom 3, correct ?, so your not going to need much in the way of a graphics card, im hoping you have an AGP port, download this extract and run 'CPUZ', under the mainboard tab it will say graphical interface type and revision, what are they ?

if you have one then you can get the first one in the list

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/FX5200_Series.html