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Win98 has a bad habit of sidestepping drivers in lieu of other software.

A device driver is software that tells hardware what to do, without user interface, inotherwords, it is there and you're not supposed to know about it so don't feel too unsettled.

If you are having trouble understanding all this, call Dell and they will gladly walk you through re-installing your video driver software and the kids game will again work fine.

Again, this is a minor problem with a minor fix.

Try this - on you standard win98 screen without any windows in the way, right click anywhere on the screen and a window will pop up. Scroll to properties, left click on properties.

At the top of the window that just appeared is a tab titled "Settings". Left click this tab.

At the bottom of the this new window is a button titled "advanced". Left click this button.

On the top of the next window are tabs once again. Left click the tab that is titled ADAPTER.

The next window will show you which video driver is installed. If it shows a generic name and not a specific video card name it requires you to re-install the correct driver as obviously the generic has no 3-d capabilities.

Java, codec, divx, dirX all play with this driver and win98 has loose ends that continually read and write depending on the contained driver info.

Good luck.

Don't call me, I'm retired. :-)