problems on vista laptop

[briandr]

hi i have recently downloaded the demo and have it up and running on my XP pro desktop fine.

the game refuses to run on a new HP laptop though
specs
2.0 ghz dual core
2 gigs of g.skill high performance memory
integrated graphics card 225mb memory
vista home premium

i know its not going to get great frame rates but it wont even start up. it comes to the first screen with the guy standing there with the mini gun and a red background then it errors out and closes. no specific error message but vista says that UT3 has stopped working and needs to close.

anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it

thanks
brian

[briandr]

no one else has had a similar problem? or has any suggestions at all

[_Lynx]

What is the integrated card you use? It may be below the minimum specs.

[briandr]

i know its not going to run great but it should do more than just display the splash screen and crash.

here are the specs right from intel

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Graphics Core
256-bit graphics core running at 400MHz
Up to 10.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth with DDR2 667 system memory
1.6 GPixels/sec and 1.6 GTexels/sec fill rate
Up to 224 MB maximum video memory
2048x1536 at 75 Hz maximum resolution
Dynamic Display Modes for flat-panel, wide-screen and Digital TV support
Operating systems supported: Microsoft Windows* XP, Windows* XP 64bit, Media Center Edition 2004/2005, Windows 2000; Linux-compatible (Xfree86 source available)
High Performance 3D
Up to 4 pixels per clock rendering
Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Hardware Acceleration Features:
Pixel Shader 2.0
Volumetric Textures
Shadow Maps
Slope Scale Depth Bias
Two-Sided Stencil
Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Vertex Shader 3.0 and Transform and Lighting supported in software through highly optimized Processor Specific Geometry Pipeline (PSGP)
Texture Decompression for DirectX* and OpenGL*
OpenGL* 1.4 support plus ARB_vertex_buffer and EXT_shadow_funcs extensions and TexEnv shader caching
Advanced Display Capability
Up to 2048x1536 resolution for both analog and digital displays
Consumer Electronic display (Digital TV) support
Display hot plug support to automatically detect new display connection while system is operating (CRT and DVI)
Two Serial Digital Video Out (SDVO) ports for flat-panel monitors and/or TV-out support via Advanced Digital Display 2 (ADD2) cards or Media Expansion Cards
Intel Media Expansion Cards available providing TV-out and PVR capability
Multiple display types (LVDS, DVI-I, DVI-D, HDTV, TV-out, CRT)
Dual screen support through ADD2 digital video devices
HDTV 480i/p, 576i/p, 720i/p and 1080i/p display resolution support
Interlaced Display output support
16x9 and 16x10 Aspect Ratio for widescreen displays
2x2 Panel Scaler
Stunning Video Playback
High Definition Hardware Motion Compensation to support high definition hi-bitrate MPEG2 media playback
Up and Down Scaling of Video Content
High Definition Content Decode - up to two stream support
5x3 Overlay Filtering.

[_Lynx]

well, the problem is there's quite a difference between supporting required features and being able to run. Intel integrated cards are only capable of first. They're usually are outperformed by most of ATI/nVidia 50$ cards with by a huge margin, so while the videocard does support those features it's just to weak to run the game.

Ah, read through the desc once more and found that line:

Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Vertex Shader 3.0 and Transform and Lighting supported in software through highly optimized Processor Specific Geometry Pipeline (PSGP)

It does not support hardware T&L which is required by the game, that's why it fails to run. Actually this is really surprising for me since hardware T&L dates back to the first GeForce, and Intel still doesn't have that.

[briandr]

that is disappointing but thank you for the informative response. i had played unreal 2004, call of duty and a couple other of those type games at decent frame rates. o well

thanks again
brian