What does A DirectX 9.0-compatible video card with 32MB of video RAM; 64MB recommended mean?

your graphics chipset is the Intel(R) GMA X3100. you can read about some benchmarks of this hardware here > a href="http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4154" rel="nofollow"http://www.notebookreview.com/default.as…/a directx is an api used to display graphics, shaders, bitmaps etc. your chipset definitely supports the minimum requirements but onboard chipsets are usually meager at best for playing games. just install the game and play it.. try 1024*768 resolution first and if you experience too much slowdowns drop to 800*600 and also lower the quality settings until things are running smoothly.