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I believe Skype requires at least DirectX 11 to work now.

It will help if you upgrade your driver for the graphic card.

Visit the support site for your product
and download the newest one.

Good luck.

Just go to best buy and find a video card that meets DirectX 9 Graphic specs that will fit you mother board.

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Try installing directx 10, with these newer games the graphic are better and you have to keep up to date with software. Just copy and paste.
http://www.windowsdriversupdate.org/landing/driver/eng/driver_deugs.php?key=directx%2010%20download&kw=22318
Hope this helps, let me know.
JimmyC

I posted this on Amazon earlier, where people seemed to be trying to solve similar problems:

I followed all the tips here and on other sites to no avail. This AM, I finally found the problem: I had to update the flash/activeX plugins for Internet Explorer and then it worked.

I'm a Firefox user, and things were working fine until one day, mysteriously, I started to get this "Please install Flash Player 9 and ActiveX" message when we tried to launch the Easy Link software. I had Flash Player 10 on my PC, but I followed peoples' suggestions and tried uninstalling, reinstalling, updating the browser plugins, etc. Nothing worked.

Then, thinking that ActiveX is something that helps a browser run content on a web page, I wondered if the missing ActiveX component that Easy Link was complaining about wasn't browser-specific. So I closed Firefox and Started Internet Explorer, updated the Flash Player from Adobe's website through that browser and Easy Link started working right away.

I suspect that at some point Vista did a software update (as it sometimes does) that included a new version of Internet Explorer. That version probably wasn't updated to the latest Flash plugin and started causing the problem with the Easy Link software. I didn't notice it of course because I don't use Internet Explorer. If anyone is still having the problem, I recommend opening Explorer, going to www.adobe.com and clicking the button that says "Get Adobe Flash Player". Worked for me (finally).

Flash player 9 is actually not the latest version. If you want to install the latest version which is version 10, follow the steps below:

a. Download the most recent Flash Player uninstaller to your desktop from the TechNote below. Please read the instructions in the TechNote before running the uninstaller.
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control
http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_14157
b. Quit ALL running applications, including all Internet Explorer windows, other browser windows, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger or other messengers. Check the Windows system tray carefully to make certain no applications which might possibly use Flash Player is still in memory.
c. Open the following folder: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash
d. Run Flash Player uninstaller.
e. Check if there are files left in the folder: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash. If there are any files left inside the folder, delete the files.
f. Download and install the latest Flash player at:
Flash Player 10,0,12,36 Active X (for Internet explorer)
http://tinyurl.com/67twte


Flash Player 10,0,12,36 Plug-In (for Firefox,Netscape,Safari,Chrome,etc)
http://tinyurl.com/8nz9s

Performance issues mostly happen due to requirements not being met.

Make sure that your computer meets the game requirements for GTA San Andreas.

Minimum System Requirements:
1GHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon Processor
256MB of RAM
8x DVD-ROM Drive
3.6 GB of free Hard Disk space for a minimal install
64MB Video Card with DirectX 9 compatible drivers ("GeForce3" or better)
DirectX 9 compatible Stereo Sound Card
Keyboard & Mouse


Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP processor (or better)
384(+) MB of RAM
16x DVD-ROM drive
4.7 GB of free Hard Disk space for a full install
128(+) MB Video Card with DirectX 9 compatible drivers ("GeForce4" or better)
DirectX 9 compatible Surround Sound Card
Game pad with twin axis analog controls (USB or Joystick Port)
Keyboard & Mouse


Your can check your system details in the DirectX Diagnostic Tool.

Click "Start", click "Run", type "dxdiag.exe" (without the quotation marks), and then click "OK" or press the "Windows Key" and "R" (The "Windows key" is between "Ctrl" and "Alt" keys on your keyboard) and in the "Run" box type in "dxdiag" (without the quotation marks) and then click "OK".

You can view details of your Processor, Memory, Video Card and Sound card in the DirectX Diagnostic Tool.

the only way to improve graphics is to upgrade your graphics card and ensure that you have enough system memory and proccesor power to run the game as it should do. If you have a 32MB or 64MB card then maybe you should go for atleast 128MB

Many webcam sites rely on ActiveX and CGI scripts. In such cases the user has to download an ActiveX component before he can see your images. Moreover, in many cases firewalls will not allow webcam operation make sure your activex are enabled. you can do that by going to tools>options>internet icon>custom level>activex and enable them all alternatively it might be your pop up blocker. hope this helps

Have you updated DirectX?, I'm not sure if Vista has DX9.0 or 9.0c, but you could try and update DirectX before you install the cam software. Also if the cam is usb, did you install the software "before" connecting the cam?, some people aren't aware that usb devices have to have the software installed first, before connecting the device.