hi there,


The game jumps out when I start a new game and I've seen several threads says it's caused by the graphic card.(Meanwhile, the fallout 3-nv works fine with it,don't know why.)

Currently I'm using a 2 years old laptop that has a "Mobile Intel® 4 Series express chipset family" graphic card. I tried to figure out which type it is and the laptop manufacture website says it's a GMA 4500M.

I also saw someone said it's because the intel doesn't have the "shader model 3.0" which I've no clue what it's. So, I browse the intel website and it says it supports SHADER MODEL 4 in directx 10
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So, do you guys think it's gonna work if I shift my system from win xp to vista and the directx 10?

crappy LENOVO laptop...

There is no useful game playing of games AS DESIGNED with the junk that Intel calls video. Sorry. But you knew that.

If there is a work-around, you don't want to try it; the results would be awful. But I am answering for another reason. The word "CARD" that you used implies that Intel is competing with real graphics companies, when it is not at all. AMD and nVIDIA produce GPU chips for partner companies to use creating actual, discrete circuit boards that plug into computer video bus add-on slots. Intel tried it once, a dozen years ago, unsuccessfully. Since then, all of their video has been limited to cheap onboard stuff, which until 2010 was buried inside of a Chipset chip. Last year, it began to to sell a version that rides along piggy back inside the i3 / i5 / i7 versions of Intel's Core multi-cored processors.

This year, we will have Sandy Bridge, still the same cheap design, but supposedly fully integrated into the processors. It is now as fast as the fastest of the AMD Chipset video chips for the first time (the previous "best performance" leader, and at the same time as fast as the cheapest, slowest of the discrete cards out there, but still with limited quality.

It's just not a "CARD".

thanks, man. I gotta the point..sigh
anyone who can tell me why the NV works on the same laptop? and whatif I copy something from new vegas to fallout 3 folder...

They changed the requirements somewhat. And made it compatible with the Intels Shader support (Instead of providing support through hardware, the Intel support is faked via drivers)




It'll just crash when you try to start it.

If you're really that desperate.....I don't honestly suggest it, but there's a .dll fix for these Intel chipsets, but I take no responsibilty should something go wrong with your operating system or hardware. You're forcing the chipset to run something that it typically can't handle and altering an operating system file.
http://www.oldblivion.com/sm/index.php?topic=6928.0

Don't expect the greatest settings in the world from it....