Feel stupid for asking but having problems opening game

[Tiesenberg]

I'm sorry if this has been answered but I have searched and looked and can't find anything to help me out.

I bought OOTP right when it came out and had problems opening it, I would get a THIS PROGRAM HAS PERFORMED AN ILLEGAL OPERATION..
OOTP6 caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:00000009.
Registers:
EAX=00000c34 CS=0167 EIP=00000009 EFLGS=00010a92
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=00f0fa38 EBP=00f0fc94
ECX=28fef000 DS=016f ESI=00f0fcb4 FS=5c1f
EDX=80009170 ES=016f EDI=00f0e0aa GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 91 0a 65 04 70 00 65 04 70 00 54 ff 00 f0 79
Stack dump:
0000016f 004191c6 00000000 00bc7da8 00ad47c0 00000000 0000ffff 16b70001 09e68a90 0000177f ffff0000 0000ffff 8a7c0000 00003b37 f2f80047 00000002

After fidgetting around, I got it to work, however this problem is back...I have uninstalled the game and reinstalled it with no luck..

Computer:
Win 98 Second Edition
128 MB
56%
Pentium 2...

anyone please help if you have any ideas.

[Steve Kuffrey]

Go to start then run and type dxdiag and hit enter. The direct X utility will open and it will let you know what version of direct X you are have installed. If it is less than v9 go to http://www.microsoft.com download and install v9, reboot your computer and then try the game

[Tiesenberg]

thanks