Cannot change Hardware acceleration settings

Hello
I have a Toshiba laptop with windows vista and cannot read my desperate Housewives Games distributed by PBA games. When I try to install it it says that my hardware acceleration has failed. He told me to install direct X 9 .0c which I did and it has always come with the same message. I clicked on windows help and he told me to check my direct X and I did and he said that my direct X was very good and there is no problem with him. Windows help has also been suggested that I have change my hardware acceleration settings which I think is the problem, but my computer won't let me change them. It is that the driver I have does not allow me to change. I even updated my driver and it stil lwouldn t let me. I want to know how or if it is possible for me to change my hardware acceleration settings, so I can play my game. The graphics driver of my computer is a mobile Intel 945 express chipset family.
Thanks Kelly101

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