Drivers for my graphics card? That I should do, thanks for the reminder! I have a NVidia GeForce 2 with extra memory on it. My computer has 768MB RAM although I suspect it isn't using all of it. (I welcome any ideas on how to force it to use all of the memory I bought, or to check on this... for many years I knew this stuff off the top of my head, even built my own computers back in the 80s, but since moving on three years ago to another occupation, this info has rolled right out of my head).

I have DirectX 9 -- I thought I only had version 8, but it must have come in an update or I just forgot I installed it. With Everquest, not updating DirectX meant crawling through the game, so I should have remembered that one.

Going off to check my graphics card drivers...