Game Unplayable After i17 update

hey pretty much just what the title says. i'm using a toshiba qosmio f45 laptop which uses the ever ****** intel 965m chipset (i'd change it but the ***** is intregrated, and i'm a broke *** college student), i'm also on vista with 2gb of ram.

in the past this has never been a problem, hell about a year ago i managed to quad box the game on this laptop (running 4 instances of the game on 1 machine, for those of you to which the concept is alien), and even as of like last week when it was still i16 it worked fine.

my problem is now, under i17, whenever i click on the cohupdater and after it downloads what it needs to and i click next, it opens for a second and acts like its gonna load the login screen but then it crashes unexpectely. it says the fault is in ig4dev32.dll. naturally i thought maybe the dll was corrupt so i redownloaded another, but no luck. i re-verified my coh files, no luck. i attempted to update my intel 965m drivers which i'm stuck with getting toshiba's variant of them (in which all i can say is next time your looking for a computer shoot yourself in the foot with a stapler twice before buying a toshiba, they never release driver updates). after that failed attempt i ran ms-config and set up a selective startup so no 3rd party software/services were running in the background. after that i tried to bypass the updater with the old -project "coh" that didn't work, then i tried -compatiblecursors 1, still nothing, then i went with -renderthread 1 and still nothing.

seriously i've played this game since launch and have 3 accounts, i have 1 character that's not at level 50, hes at like lvl 47 or possibly lvl 48 ( i can't remember, so sue me its finals week) and believe me i've quit the game already like 3 times on temporary periods, as honestly the game gets stale and im usually too busy to play, however i wanted to get my last character to lvl 50 and since i17 has came out i've been unable to log in and finish that character off and at this point i'm running out of ideas. (i mean hell i even made a backup of my drivers and then installed some modded drivers which makes them look like i was using the nvidia 7900 gts, which incidentally didn't work, however it works wonders on games like fallout 3 and bioshock and prototype) so honestly at this point i'm not sure what to do aside of deactivating my accounts in the hope that this gets fixed or ay the very least i get a coupon to Outback for a free Sirloin Steak couresty of the devs for making the game unplayable for me.

I'm sorry to hear you can't get updated drivers for your graphics, as it might be essential.

But have you tried starting in Safe Mode?
Chances are that something in your graphic settings are enabled, that your graphic solution can't handle.

hey unfortunately safe mode crashes just like regular mode.

I'm not sure if you have tried installing the latest driver from Intel, instead of looking towards Toshiba - if not, it might be worth a try.

Just be sure to clean out the old driver before installing the new.

Try getting new drivers from here: Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows Vista * 32 (exe).

If you have 64-bit Vista, try this instead: Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows Vista* 64 (zip)

I have a laptop with Intel graphics too, and i17 works fine in it; but I have Windows 7, not Vista.

yea i tried even though i knew what the results would be. because its from toshiba, they have a locked jumper on the intel gma chipset, which has prevented me from installing any driver updates from intel. i know its extremely annoying.

There's supposed to be an Intel fix on the Test Server right now. You can hop over there to see if it works or wait till hits Live on Monday or Tuesday.

thanks, i'll keep an eye out for it, but unfortunately i don't have test installed as i have a lot of uncompressed video footage i have to edit for a final due next week, so i guess i'll look for the patch in the coming week, hopefully it works again, cause i have no intention on leaving my last character unfinished. i'll check back here later this week when i try this supposed patch to see how it works or if not. hopefully everyone has a great weekend!