sorry hon, you don't give any specs, but the most likely culprit is not having DX8.1 compatible drivers for your vid card.
so far that seems to be the thing to do. go get em.
if you have a via chipset (ugh!) update those also.
and, just checking, you do have DX 8.1 installed, right?
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