The game doesn't start loading at all, I click to start it and it pop up immediately complaining about DirectX. Is there any way to make the game see that there is directX and a graphics card that supports it? I don't think reinstalling the Sims is working. Thanks, for the help by the way.

I reinstalled my graphics drivers. I will see if reinstalling the game again works. I might also try reinstalling directX too. I have reinstalled a couple times ad nothing is working. Still getting DirectX failure.

I have every EP and SP. It is a .exe not the icon. The game worked with AL and a few stuff packs before. Re-copied crack and it still is not finding driectX compatible adapters and whatnot. My system is within the specifications required.

I place the crack in C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden Stuff\TSBin. I click on the cracked .exe instead of the launcher, and I just deleted groups.cache and now it is complaining about directx9. I am downloading and installing a directX update. Still says DirectX is not working and what not. I just updated my nVidia driver.

I realize that, but what exactly am I doing wrong?

I put the crack where it is supposed to go. When I try to pen the game with the crack it only appeers in Windows Task Manager until 17,000K of memory usage and then it quits. Nothing ever pops up or anything. This is my first time arrring a real game. It worked once, then did they above. I reinstalled and it worked twice and did the same thing.