Intel GMA 950 problem playing a game

I am playing GTA Vice City using a vista laptop that has a GMA 950 , which should run the game fine as I have read , so when I play it the screen will flash all the time and soemtimes with a bunch of white letters or numbers (I am using the highest resolution possible) but anyone resolution has this problem so I do not need to change it to low resolution and none of the display settings fixes this. And when i exit the game, it usually says one of my display drivers is not working properly but then it is fixed. Also, the in-game cutscenes don't have this problem . I am also not using the CD but an image that I mounted to play th game if it makes a difference.

 

Sounds like your drivers are messed up, or you have enabled features either trhough the game itself or through your graphics centre that don't agree with the game and your card.

Also, the 950 is not designed to run the game at high settings for this type of game - not sure what you've heard, but I cannot imagine it will work for you. At the very least you should try different settings, including dropping the resolution. PLaying San Andreas I need to bump the graphics down from very high to high when running in native resolution, and my GPU is many many times more powerful than yours.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=111579 what resolution should I drop, I've tried in the game but it still has those flashes

 

Have you tried downloading the lastest drivers ? This sounds just like a driver issue.

 

yes I have tried the HP website and the automatic driver update on the comp, both still say that I have the latest drivers.

 

hmm, update the game to 1.1 that fixes the graphics issue

 

Yes I tried that but my gta-vc.exe file is modified so what should I do?

 

re-install fully?

My x200m can play VC at full settings so a GMA950 shouldn't have power problems.

 

Reinstall the game from original media, then apply the 1.1 patch, then apply whatever other "modifications" to the EXE you originally had.

Note - I don't support piracy, but I do support no-CD software. I prefer my optical media served up in image format over gigabit, thanks.

- M4H

 

My bad, I presumed that vice city was similar to San Andreas in terms of GPU requirements. I would reiterate that it does sound like a driver issue.

 

Are you running on Vista by any chance? This:

is an error I used to get quite a bit on my Go6800 in RC2, so it leads me to believe that you are. Very likely that's a part of the problem: the drivers for the GMA 950 have enough issues on XP, but on Vista they are absolutely atrocious (like everything else about Vista's performance, but that's another rant for another time). Try turning off all of the Aero crap in Vista, and try toggling "Frame Rate Limiter" on and off in Vice City and see if one setting is better than the other.