I found A8 does not work with integrated video cards having Intel 945 chipset - like my 4 year old laptop, and my girlfriend's old pc. And as I remember you could buy a pc or laptop with this ancient chipset even 1-2 year ago.

It might have problem with the last directx issue, because the error message says that the video card is not dx9 compliant, or something like this... but sometimes no error message, just crash, or blue screen without graphics.

The same with A7 compilation is fine.