trouble with hoster and laptop

[hwheeler43]

This is a very strange problem. Are you logged in as administrator on the machine? How much ram does it have? Does your Graphics Video card have 32MB or more of RAM and support Direct-X 9.0 or higher? Just some things to look at. I may be off base as usual. The graphics card info is a requirement to run hoster. I am no expert, but I believe direct-x has control of both audio and video, so if it is the wrong version it might be the culprit. Again, I could be wrong, but I would check to see which version is on the laptop. It seems like it should be 9.0 or greater with vista.