Intel HD 3000 Burnout Paradise texture flicker

Hi all,

I recently got a laptop with an i3-2310M and Intel HD Graphics 3000 iGPU. I installed Burnout Paradise and Torchlight on the lappy for those times I would be waiting around. I'm currently experiencing some sort of graphics texture flicker/corruption, and I'm hoping somebody with more knowledge of hte Intel HD could help me out.

This YouTube video shows the same flickering I am getting:
Bioshock texture flickering problem (resolved) - YouTube

In the video, flickering happens along the wall textures, etc. I have the same problem in Burnout Paradise. My car doesn't have any flicker, but the "world" does. I looked in the Intel Graphics Options window to see if there was any sort of override for certain graphical settings, but I couldn't find any. Could someone enlighten me as to why this happens? What could I do to solve this?

Thanks!

 

Might sound dumb but have you tried grabbing the latest Intel IGP drivers?
Could be that the flickering is a bug in a older driver release.

 

Don't worry, it's not dumb at all. I am led to belive that I am on the newest driver.

I did try to update my Intel IGP driver from the Intel website, but when I do the driver installer complains that I don't have the right hardware. The Intel graphics application reports that I have this driver "8.15.10.2361", and the driver I downloaded tried to install has version 15.22.1.2361. Is that the same thing?

Please advise if I'm looking up the wrong driver update for my Intel IGP! Thanks!

 

Il get on my computer and do some searching.
Typing from my phone atm.
Galaxy S 2 <3

But usually notebooks dont ship with newer drivers.
My own HD 6970m even shipped with Nvidia driver CD. XD

Edit: Okay here is the chipset driver.
Might not need it.

And here is the IGP drivers.
Link.

Im no expert but hopefully this works.

 

The dell drivers for the HD3000 suck. I installed lenovo drivers (much later version) and had texture problems go away.

edit: extract the lenovo drivers, and then point to that folder after "update driver" through device manager.

 

Repping you for that one. ;D

 

Strange, Even though I have an older driver version, attempting to update to the Lenovo driver (8.15.10.2418) doesn't work. Device Manager just claims that I already have the latest version of the driver, even after pointing the driver update to the extracted Lenovo driver.

As well, DEagleson, that Intel driver is what I tried to install from previously. The installer never worked because it would throw an error at me saying that "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software."

Update:
Neither the official Intel driver installer nor Lenovo's Intel driver worked. Both drivers report an error upon loading the installer EXE "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software.". Attempting to update via Device Manager returns with a "you're already using the latest driver" message.

I'm not about to do something really stupid, and try allowing Windows to automatically detect and install a driver.

 

which lenovo drivers did you install?

 

A little update, I was able to install a driver through the Windows Update method. I tried that as a hail mary, and lo and behold it's the method that worked. It installed 8.15.10.2342, not the newest driver, but that version works: the weird texture bug/glitch/corruption is gone.

the only thing i have yet to figure out is how to correct the scaling when outputting to TV via HDMI, but that part doesn't really bother me too much anyways.