Equium M40X-149: DirectX (Direct 3D) issue playing Loaded Silent Hunter III

Loaded Silent Hunter III in December 2005 after adding 512Mb RAM (total now 1Gb). Game has been running fine until now. Suddenly game fails to load with error message 'Cannot start 3D engine'. Have loaded latest Intel driver (dated Feb 06). Have loaded latest DirectX (v 9c) from MS site (dated Dec 05). Have uninstalled and reinstalled game from DVD. Still fails. DxDiag states 'Direct 3D functionality not available'....but it has been.
Game suppliers have run out of ideas.
You folks are my final hope...I'm going 'cold turkey' without being able to launch torpedos at ships!
All help gratefully accepted.
Peter

Hi
As far as I know this unit was delivered with a Mobile Intel 915GM Express Chipset AlvisoGM graphic card.
Toshiba recommend to use the own graphic card drivers because they are especially designed for notebook usage.
Please check this driver website:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU
There you should find a driver version 6.14.10.3943.
But generally its not easy to say why you game wont run.

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