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NEED HELp- GRAPHICS PROBLEM- Tech SAvy PPPL PLEASE HELP!!!!
achilles809
Member Posts: 33
in Tabula Rasa
sorry for the sorta rude title, but i desperately need help. I installed the game on my laptop and once I get into the game its all messed up, the ground and tress are black, and the distant terrain is all gray and flickering from one position to another. I updated my driver to the latest version, and I still get this problem, Ill link my exact system here - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2101077,00.asp PLEASE GUYS HELP Me, I really wanna play this game and need help PLEASE!
-Achilles
-Achilles
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Graphics Card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Nuff said really.If the laptop that your link refers to is indeed what you are playing the game on then the 1st thing to do is head into the options and put everything on the lowest settings and you may find that this solves the problem. If not then all I can suggest is that you drop a line to the TR devs including a copy of your dxdiag file. Other than that you may want to start saving your dosh for a gaming rig. Sorry I can't be of more help.
-Achilles
Ok first of all that graphics setup isn't completely compatible with windows vista for a start, here is something from a guy at Intel: ( note the part about eye candy which modern games are full of )
I haven't talked to the graphics group yet, because I'm trying to identify the right people to talk to. That's hard in such a big company (Intel has almost 100,000 employees, and I don't work directly with anyone in the Graphics group). But I'm going to find someone, eventually.
Why haven't I posted something sooner? Well, besides the fact that there wasn't any news, I was out of town last week for the MIX07 conference, and there's that whole matter of my job and having actual work to do.
So I'm asking for a little patience on your part.
Also, remember that WINDOWS VISTA WORKS PERFECTLY FINE ON INTEL 915 GRAPHICS. It's just some of the advanced "eye candy" features, like Aero Glass, that don't work without a WDDM driver. To my knowledge, such a driver never existed. The fact that "it worked during the beta!" was due to the fact that Microsoft was allowing XPDM drivers to run the fancy stuff - the hard requirement for a WDDM driver wasn't put in place until later builds of Vista. There is no magical WDDM driver that Intel released during the beta, and subsequently pulled out of existence (someone would have found and hacked a version of that by now if that were the case). There is and only ever was the XPDM driver that exists today.
This isn't a ploy to make you all think that Intel "really cares" (sorry, conspiracy theorists!). I stepped in front of this bus on my own, and I intend to see it through to the end. I'm committed to maintaining transparency throughout the whole thing, too, so as soon as I know the outcome (good or bad), you will too. Stay tuned, and remember, there's NO guarantee or promise that anything will come of this! If the graphics group comes back and says they won't or can't release a WDDM driver for 915, then there's really nothing more we can do. At least we will have tried.
MM appears that some of that got cut off. The gist of it however is that some applications require a WDDM driver and Intel to date have not released one. You may find that the game would be a lot more compatible with that graphics setup under windows xp rather than vista.
Try pressing alt+enter to swap into windowed mode to force the graphics to refresh.
You can then alt+enter again to go back to full screen mode.