Sims three help, What is a video card?

For my sims 3 it will not let me play because it says that my video card "does not support shader model 2". What does this mean, and how do i fix it?|||A video card is an actual computer chip type thing inside your computer that runs the 3D graphics in a game, and on the internet.



Sadly the only way to fix this is to either get a new computer, or buy new parts for it, which is probably more than just the video card to get the game to run fine.



The easiest thing to do would just be to get a newer computer, because what this is telling you is your video card, and possibly other things inside your computer, are too old/outdated to run the game.



Hope i helped, though this isnt happy news.