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Yes, I have a Dell laptop with the infamous Intel Mobile integrated graphics.
Here's my problem. CoH won't run with the Dell OEM drivers, it says my graphics card is unsupported blah blah blah, have a nice day. I click OK and it shuts down nicely, doesn't even try to run.
I upgraded the drivers to the latest Intel drivers. Problem being they are unstable and corrupt the desktop screen (and Photoshop, and other apps). Oh and they cause the machine's screen to go completely whacko after about 2 hours of uptime. However, the game now runs.
I heard about the "-useTexEnvCombine" command-line switch. Its supposed to work magic from what I understand. So...
...here's my question: If I roll back to the Dell OEM drivers which work properly for everything else (including WoW, Champions Online, D&D Online), will "-useTexEnvCombine" act as a bypass to the graphics card check?
Please note I DON'T get any popups about shader/feature errors. The game simply seems to spot the date of my drivers (which is about 2 years old), and refuses to run. Or something like that. I highly doubt the game would have any issue running if it would actually try. And I'd rather have it crash than refuse to try.
Rolling back the driver will be an eventual necessity due to the corruption I experience with the new ones. If I hadn't actually been given gametime I would not have bothered at all. So, does "-useTexEnvCombine" bypass the graphics card check?