Chess Titans Issue on startup

I've seen this posted here, but nobody ever had an answer, so I'll ask it
again. When I first installed Vista, Chess Titans worked fine, recently,
however, I get the following message on startup:

could not find texture
(Media/TableWood.dds)

the d3d device has a non-zero reference count, meaning some objects were not
released.

failed creating direct3d device objects

Each is repeated twice, then on the final click, the app closes.

Does anyone have any suggestions?