It is surprising how QUICKLY your drivers can become out of date, often this starts as soon as the PC comes out of it's box
It can be a right pain to get them ALL updated, even though modern PC's come with automatic update applications as standard.
I had problems with installing 3Dice on Windows 98, and Enzo replied that even though this was a dying platform, they were going to tweak the software so that it would work in such basic environments, but would lack the full 3D experience. Basic PC's come with "on board" graphics, rather than graphics cards, these would be the "cheap" ones, however most can be upgraded with separate graphics cards.
To get the best out of 3Dice, you really need a pretty decent graphics card, one that is rated to handle "3D applications". My "non-cheap" gambling machine has a pretty decent graphics card, and does not have any problems handling 3Dice, however, at full screen resolution and 4 MG casinos at once
p) it does have a tendency to slow down a little, even though the processor hardly breaks into a sweat
p
). I may upgrade this PC later this year, and put the "old stuff" into my "away machine" at my Mum's house (waste not, want not
).
First, follow the advice of Zoozie and 3Dice to reinstall the latest driver for the card, this should work, but if not look for other out of date drivers, such as video drivers.
3Dice software is a little peculiar, as it doesn't sit on the desktop like other graphic application windows (you can't move it around, nor have other applications "on top" of it). This is probably because the others use DirectX and/or Flash, while 3Dice uses OpenGL.