I am getting two warnings through the hardware configuration. The first is that I am runnin g DirectX 10 and is apparntly not compatible, and the other is the driver version. The game runs very slow, any help would be appreciated.

i had the same problem try asking support if their are vista updates or load XP on a seperate hard drive for me that is the only way Vista is really a directx 10 system and i am waiting for far cry2 and i hope that will run on vista. Vista will run some directx 9c games like Fear but others like chaos theory with its star force protection cause all sorts of problems

SCDA should be never be sold. Ubi hired monkeys to code this game for PC. charged money after all was done, just let it to rot.

when it comes to detection problem, don't worry about that, it has no effect on the game, it just runs from the database, when they wrote that program, there was on DX10, so program doesn't know what it is, and just freaks out.

list your system specs

I could use the same help, because I can't run the game at all, and get a ridiculous dialog error box that says nothing but, "Must Check", and then another dialog that says splintercell4.exe terminated.

I have Vista SP1
HP Pavilion m9040n
Q6600 Quad Processor machine (2.4Ghz)
3 GB RAM
1.2 TB disk space (3 SATA drives)
BFG 8800 GT O/C (PCI-E 16x) with 512mb DDR3 RAM
Latest Nvidia drivers

I also downloaded the 1.2 patch for the game, to no avail.

any help would be appreciated, since the forum seems to be a random collection of individual posts (makes finding things difficult).

You need to install the latest version of DirectX 9.0c

That should at least let it start, although those with 8x00 series Nvidia cards will most likely have graphical glitches in the game.

Only one glitch-like thing here... everything is well lit... not just the things that were supposed to be lit from design-perspective, no... everything... like Sam is wearing some sort of christmas-three costume... apparently there are some darker places, i just can't see them.