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Old 05-12-2007, 06:15 PM   #1
WRMW
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Default Broken Sword 4 -- Video Card Problem??

Hi, I just installed BS4 and it seemed to install fine, with no problems. When I load up the starting menu, the graphics (the flames and the background) are big white boxes.
When I start a new game, I see the FMV movie part, but then as soon as it cuts to the henchmen spying on George (New York?) things start to go bad, everything's blocky, or white, or washed out, then thescreen goes black (while the audio plays perfectly fine). Every once in a while I get a flash of a scene, with rigid parts of characters, and blocks of scene design.

I lowered the graphics definition to low to see if that would help, but that crashed the game and pulled up some error thing in notepad. Now the game will not launch at all (pulls up the same, or maybe similar, error message.)

I assumed it was because my video card is not good enough, even though the computer is newish (a laptop that was bought last summer, so it's not even a year old). The rest of the specs seem fine, and when I pull up what I think is my video specs I don't see any problems.
This is what I could find: (I'm fairly clueless with this tekinikal stuff)

Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile Report


Report Date: 05/12/2007
Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 19:57:36
Driver Version: 6.14.10.4332
Operating System: Windows XP* Home Edition, Service Pack 2 (5.1.2600)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 9.0
Physical Memory: 1015 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 128 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 10 MB
Processor: x86 family 6 Model 13 Stepping 8
Processor Speed: 1862 MHZ
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 2592
Device Revision: 03


So any ideas anyone? Any possible way I'm going to get this to work, or should I cut my losses and pack it away for some day long down the road when I have a computer that can run it?

Thanks for the help,
William
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