Symptoms: Game won't start, error message stating that "spooge driver not found, verify that directX is installed" is displayed.
Problem: Your graphics card is not being initialized correctly by the game.
Possible solutions:
Please try the following three things.
1. Make sure that your card can actually run Dawn of War. Here's an (incomplete) list:
Cards that will run Dawn of War
-ATI Radeon 8500 and above
-Nvidia Geforce 2 and above
Cards that will not run Dawn of War
-Intel integrated graphics chips
-S3 chip family of integrated cards
-Matrox Parhelia family
Note that there are a few exceptions.
Remember, you need a card that is Hardware T&L capable.
2. Update your video card drivers. This is the number one most common fix for this problem. The latest versions of the video drivers can be downloaded here (
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html) for ATI cards and here (
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp) for nvidia.
3. Check if your mainboard chipset drivers are installed and up to date. We've seen quite a few cards running in PCI mode due to the chipset drivers not being installed or totally out of date. This really slows your cards down.