Re: Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system!

Tried adding with it and messing around with the settings, still nothing.

EDIT: By forcing the game to run in windowed mode, it worked fine - at least, it managed to start up. I guess that's the best solution for now?

How i force it to start windowed?

to make it start windowed

find your EP9 exe (in The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection/Fun With Pets/SP9/TSBin, wherever you have your origin games saved)

make a shortcut on desktop

right click the shortcut->properties

find where it says target and add to the end of the link a space, followed by '-w' (no quotation marks)

it should look like this: "[Wherever It Is On Your Computer]\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSBin\Sims2EP9.exe" -w

then use the shortcut and it should start windowed.

It worked for me so I hope it would work for everyone else having this problem

Ooooooooooooh thanks dude 😕mileyvery-happy:

Theres a way to start it in origin?

I tried and it still gives me the same message.

Even running in windows didn't seem to work for me..

I have an NVidia 745 GTX graphics card which is apparently not supported by The Sims 2.  Lo and behold, I took the advice from Thundersplat to run the game in windowed mode, and it worked.  Of course, I want to run the game in full screen mode.

So then I used the link from Dako64 in this thread here, and I decided to get the Graphics Rules.sgr file for NVidia cards.  I then tried to update that file for my native screen resolution (1920x1080).  I opened the game in the My Games part of Origin, and somehow it loaded full screen and is working great now.

I want to thank you folks for your communications and your willingness to help others.

What does any of that mean?

I have the same problem. You means, you edit Graphics Rules.sgr in Folder: Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Config and change all screen resolution setting to 1920*1080 right?