I am a SimCity 4 Deluxe player, and I have brought this game for 2 months. Recently, my computer had "broken" down, and I was required to bring this computer to a technician to fix it up. The technician seemed to have no knowledge at all, and what he did was "re-install" Windows XP , which I could do that myself. Afterward, I re-install SimCity 4, and I could still play it, even though I lost all my cities. Then one day, my sister had "broken" down the computer again, and by my own self, I was able to fix it, but "split" the computer into two, so that my computer had two sets of XP running. I then re-install my SimCity game, but found that I could not play the game anymore. There was an error message saying "Hardware Driver Error - Could not initialize DirectDraw". Well, I had installed DirectX 9 already, and also, I have tried the DXSETUP on the disc. With the help of DXDIAG, I was able to find out my video card was missing ever since the technician fixed my computer.
Answer:
Then you need to reinstall the video drivers.
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