I've got a Sapphire Ati Radeon 9600xt  256mb, The latest drivers (Catalyst 4.7) and the latest direct x. However operation flashpoint - cold war crisis fails to run on my graphics card. I've only installed the official upgrades and I was getting the same error when I first tried to run the game. I've tried searching the Internet and contacting codemasters support but I can't find any solutions. The -nomap target path doesn't help and i've lowered my agp aperature. I've tested direct x so I don't believe that it is faulty as it works fine on other games and I had the same problems a few months back on a previous installation of windows 2k. (Before when I had an agp aperature of 256mb in bios, i just got a black screen crash, so I changed it down to 64 and it now gives me an error message). When I start ofp It instantly closes and I get the following error:
Cannot create 3D device:
  Adaptor 0 (Radeon 9600 SERIES ) Fullscreen
  Resolution 1024 *768, format X8R8G8B8/D24S8, refresh 75 Hz.
  Error D3DERR_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY
Now I know that there are solutions to this that work in the majority of situations but believe me, i've tried them so please don't go tell me to search the forums or visit the faq.
Has anyone got any ideas on how to fix this?
Nade,
Specs:
Operating System: Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195) Service Pack 4
BIOS: Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG on MSI k7N2 Delta
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2500+, Â MMX, Â 3DNow, ~1.8GHz
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
Sound: Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II
512mb PC3200 Ram.