Question about Directdraw on Satellite P100-429 (pspa3e)

when i try and play a game on the laptop it said it "could not initialise the graphics. Make sure the video device and driver are compatible with direct draw."
Are there drivers out there? I believe the graphics card to be a nvidia geforce 7600 128mb.
When i use the nvidia website the drivers dont seem to work with the laptop!!

Hi
Please check if the DirectX was installed on the notebook.
As far as I can remember the newest version is 9.0C.
After successful installation of the DirectX please start the application with command dxdiag. Then the DirectX should start and there you can enable the Directdraw accelerator.

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