Help Lord of the Rings Return of the King

[spirittoo]

I was just given a copy of LOTR Return of the King game. After I installed it I get an error message "Could not find any compatible Direct3D devices with the required capabilities.

I went to the support site and this is what I found:

"This particular issue can be caused by a few different things, including (but not limited to) an incompatible video card, older drivers for a compatible video card, or a corupted version of Direct X. There are several steps we can take to try and resolve this issue. Please follow them in order, trying the game after each step has been completed."

None of their suggestions helped.

Recommended:To run the game
- Intel Pentium IV or AMD Athlon XP processor
- 256 Megabytes of RAM
- Supported DirectX 8.1 compatible video card (64+ MB)
- DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
- 2.0 GB free hard disk space (additional space required for
- Windows swap-file and DirectX 8.1 installation)
- 16X Speed CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
- 8 or more button Game pad (USB or Joystick Port)
- MS compatible mouse
- Keyboard

They have a note about the video card with 32mb or more memory and one of these chipsets is required.
Nividia GeForce2 GTS or greater, ATI Radeon 7500 or greater.

The chipset on my video card is a Nividia MX200. It is a 3d graphics. It has all the things a GeForce2 has does it not?

I checked my dxdiag box and everything is running properly. I have my updated drivers.

In my installation guide it state to make sure that the driver version number is4.09.00.000 or higher. My driver version is 6.13.0010.2060 date:2/4/2002.

Can anyone help me with this problem?



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[jaek13]

Hi there, i had exactly the same problem. So I went to http://support.intel.com/support/gra.../CS-007910.htm
and followed their instructions. Success! Everything works fine now.
Just type the error message you get from LOTR into google and you should find a solution if that still doesnt work.
hope that helps, and that im not too late and you havent sold it or smashed your computer up...
happy gaming
j

[Nic01]

I tried this as well but it still shows me this message. Any other suggestions I can try out? My PC info is:
Intel Celeron Cpu 2.53 GHz
192MB RAM
Video Adapter VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP
Chip type: VIA/UniChrome Pro IGP
Size: 64 MB
HDD: 75 GB
Supported DirectX 9.0 Video Card
Supported DirectX 9.0 Sound Card

Please advise!

[KURMU]

Could somebody help me? I get this message still "Could not find any compatible Direct3D devices with the required capabilities. Make sure you have current drivers for your video card. The Lord of the Rings(tm); Return of the King(tm) will now exit." I have downloaded the .ini what was in here http://support.intel.com/support/gra.../CS-007910.htm I have putted it in Data folder but still comes the same message(when I run the game). Please could somebody help me?

[KURMU]

O and I just had to tell you that this game has worked once... I don't remember how did we get it work whit my cousins hosbend... but if somebody could help me then please help me. I realy would like to play this game again