10 seconds of google later -
Some computers come with an integrated graphics card — or a video card that is built into the motherboard. These aren’t normally powerful so many end up buying another video card to use, resulting in two videos card being enabled on the same computer. While this doesn’t normally cause any problems, it can for this game.
1) Go to My Computer -> Control Panel -> Hardware -> Device Manager
2) Locate the card you are not using and right click it -> disable, then reboot the computer
If that doesn’t work, try:
– Updating the drivers on the integrated card.
– Setting the non-integrated card as the preferred card (through NVIDiA control panel or ATI Catalyst Panel)
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Depends which IGPU you're talking about. I can run it fine on my 3570k's HD 4000, but that's considered a decent IGPU, where most are just piss poor. Modding a certain file won't "coax" more power out of a power limited IGPU, unless it disables all after effects and makes the game look awful just so it's playable on bad hardware.
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It wasn't an insult. Specs would be nice, and a more elaborate explanation of "isn't on speaking terms".
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I didn't take it as an insult. XD
I get a render error when ever trying to launch the game is all.
Verified NovaBench Score: 249
Test run on June 3, 2012 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Celeron 900 2.20GHz running at 2194 MHz
Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family GPU
1979 MB System RAM (Score: 101) - RAM Speed: 2833 MB/s
CPU Tests (Score: 120) - Floating Point Operations/Second: 24296664 - Integer Operations/Second: 54143454 - MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 635824
Graphics Tests (Score: 11) - 3D Frames Per Second: 40
Hardware Tests (Score: 17) - Primary Partition Capacity: 219 GB - Drive Write Speed: 42 MB/s
She may be war torn and weak, but she is capable of running games that are much more taxing than Amnesia. I can run every game in my Steam library on this craptop, with the exception of Saints Row The Third and Amnesia.
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That what this forum is for http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-3754.html and http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=897
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As i said, my drivers are already up to date. Thanks though.
EDIT: Actually, this tid bit is actually pretty useful. The only thing i could find on Frictionalgames was to update my drivers.
1) Enter Display Properties and make sure that the desktop color depth is 32.
2a) Run at lower resolution. Even if you have an LCD screen, there should be no problem running at a resolution such as 1280x768 and have the game still look good. This is probably the best solution to this problem.
2b) Make sure that SSAO and EdgeSmooth are turned off. These two effects use a lot of graphics memory and turning them off should help a lot.
3) Make sure that you have only a single display set in the graphic card's control panel.
Thanks, I'll look in to this.
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sorry for not answering earlier, best bet for now it to right click the game exe. go to properties, then compatibility tab and select disable desktop composition. this will turn of windows aero and any other features that slow the computer. if you can please right click the taskbar and click task manager, then tell me how many processes is running while every program is closed.
what im trying to get at is for now you can try and reduce the stress on the computer to maybe play the game on the integrated graphics.
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Taken from the steam forums via google search yo. (I got your GPU name from the log you posted.)
"Sadly, Amnesia needs OpenGL 2.1, and the new Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Drivers only support OpenGL 2.0. Unless Intel releases OpenGL 2.1 on the chipset, it won't work. "
Now this was from last year, so I google'd some more stuff yo.
Apparently full OpenGL 2.1 still isn't supported. It doesn't appear you'll be able to play the game unless until Intel changes some stuff or you have a different computer to use. (One with a newer or dedicated GPU)
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to sum it up: intel graphics chips are made for office applications, not for games - THOU SHALL NOT GAME WITH INTEL GRAPHICS!
sorry, but ask any game dev you want, those cards are awful and especially the windows drivers are simply abysmal, get something real if you want to play games
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Well, that wasn't really my message but yeah.. if you can get a hold of a different computer with a GPU that supports OpenGL 2.1, you'll be able to play OP.
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I have had Amnesia in my library for a while now and I've been wanting to play it. It isn't exactly on speaking terms with my graphics card though. I have heard it is possible to mod a certain file to coax it in to running on integrated graphics. I can't really find out how though, all my drivers are up to date so... :I
Any help would be appreciated! :)
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