Vista, DirectX and Sims2 not playing nice

[smartass_brat]

Sometime in the last year I got a new computer. I dreaded re-installin the Sims2 as I have all EP's and SP's. Anyways, I was wanting to play so I went ahead and installed everything. When I went to start the game however I'm gettin an error message sayin:
"Failed to enumerate any DirectX9 compatible graphics adapters in this system!
Please make sure you have DirectX9 compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest manufacturer provided driver.
The application will now terminate..."

When I looked up which DirectX I had it said I had 10. I was like, ok so I'll download 9 too. Didn't make a difference.
When I looked for compatibility I found this:

Quoted from a post on the exchange for Vista and Sims2 FAQ:
Best cards:
These cards will fully support DirectX 9 and should provide the best The Sims 2(and Vista) experience
ATI Radeon 9800 and above. (9800, X550, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950)

* NVidia 6000 series and above. (6600, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8800)

OK cards:
These are early DirectX 9 cards and budget cards that may not support all The Sims 2 graphical features.

* ATI Radeon 9600, 9700, X300, X1300
* NVidia 6200, 7100

Unsupported cards in Vista:
These cards aren't DirectX 9 compatible and may actually work fine, but are not Vista capable. As a result, graphics card manufacturers are unlikely to support Vista driver updates for these cards.

* NVidia FX5000 series (FX5200, FX5600, FX5900, FX5950) and earlier (GeForce 3, GeForce 2)

Mine wasn't listed. it's nVidia GeForce 6150 SE. I should also add that it's not a card, but integrated.
When that didn't work I went ahead and pulled my vVidea GeForce 5500 from my old computer (has XP and played SIms2 fine) as it also was not listed above. That didn't work either.

Other than going out and buying a new card is there any other options available to me?

[Carlwashere]

My computer had that same included graphics thing (nVidia Geforce 6150 SE). I got my computer March of last year. It worked nicely for me, I recently upgraded my graphics card and installed directx10 and its awesome now. So it can't be the card, by the way, I use an hp pavilion, is that what you have? I have Vista so it can't be that either... i have all ep's no sp's.

[smartass_brat]

Compaq.

Hmmm.... May I ask did you start you game with the Sims cd or by other means?

[Carlwashere]

I start it with the apartment life cd, My computer set up is, or rather, was very similar to yours. It was only 2 weeks ago I was using the same card.