We have an older Nvidia Gforce 3 card and have had no problems. I have heard that some older video cards aren't supported by the latest DirectX from Microsoft. Maybe that is the problem some people are having. I've always found Atari's tech support helpful when I gave them a call, though I haven't had to in a while.

The only reason I'm not giving this five stars is that I wanted to play with my gamepad, and the button mapping is quite awkward. Unlike other games I have that say they support controllers, there doesn't seem to be any way to remap the buttons. So we just use the mouse and keyboard. (My daughter doesn't mind. I'm the one who plays console sports games, so I'm used to a gamepad.)

10 of 11 found the following review helpful:

Backyard Baseball 2005 is Awesome  Nov 05, 2004

This is a really great game. The things that make it a great game are:
* It has extremely fun power ups
* You can save the season play and have a 32 game career
* It has awesome graphics (watch for the cow being lifted into the flying saucer.

The things that need improvement are:
* I had trouble saving a coach at first because I didn't have priviledges to create a folder outside of My Documents. They should fix that.
* That's all until version 2006!

7 of 7 found the following review helpful:

Really Fun!!!  Dec 28, 2004

This is the first Backyard Baseball game I have played, and I think it is cool!!! The grapics are all 3-D, which makes it really fun. There are some really fun and creative parks you can play in, and you even get to play with some of the most popular MLB players as kids. There is so much you can do on this game. You can even play a 18 or 32 game season and there is a world series at the end of it. You can also create your own players, which is really fun. I think this game is definetly worth the money. And if you think this is just a boy's game, your wrong. Im a girl and this game is cool!!!

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Don't have to be a kid  Dec 11, 2006
By Jeremy Zarzycki "a.k.a. Raoul Duke"
I didn't buy this for my kid. I'm 24 and I bought this because I liked the idea of having a simple, mouse-driven baseball game to play in boring lecture classes while I pretend to take notes.

Let me just say, if you enjoy baseball games at all, you'll like this game. Everything's been made cute and clean and colorful for kids, but underneath the shiny exterior is a very well made arcade baseball game. You have a variety of players that are rated in various categories, each with their own strength and weaknesses, to draft for your team. The game has a full, continuous-season mode that, while lacking any new rookies or trading mechanism, is still made fun thanks to the surprisingly complete statistic tracking and award certificates (which allow you to unlock new players.) You can make all the basic managerial decisions including deciding what positions to play players at, making pitching substitutions and setting your batting order.

And underneath what is a solid simulation-like package, rests a simple yet deep game. You have full control over pitching and fielding, a 3 dimensional strike zone for hitting, arcade-like power-ups for both pitching and hitting and variable difficulty levels which allow you to turn on and off things like a ball locator when batting.

All in all, if you're looking for an intense, simulation-driven baseball game that captures the feel of the majors, you probably never bothered even looking at this page. This, however, is a fun, arcade-style baseball game that does an excellent job of cutting out the more complicated things while keeping and executing all the essentials. I can't recommend it enough for anyone, no matter what their age.

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