Star Wars Battlefront Intel HD 4000 crashes with E_INVALIDARG error

[JGuth2]

My specs are:

Late 2012 Mac Mini

16GB RAM

i7-3615QM with HD 4000 Graphics

Windows 10, DirectX 11.2

Latest driver installed (15.33.39.4276)

Running the game usually just makes it crash with no error output. However with Anti-Aliasing disabled in the Intel Control Panel and running the game with the following flags: '-windowed -borderless' the game will crash and output the error in the attached file.

This does sound to me like a driver issue and not a game specs issue.

I can play Black Ops 3 with this system with a stable 20+ FPS so please fix this driver, Intel.

[Allan_J_Intel1]

Apple has requested that all questions regarding Apple systems and software be addressed directly with Apple support.

Please bear in mind that the Intel® HD Graphics 4000 does not meet the minimum requirements to play Star Wars Battlefront. See information linked below:

http://starwars.ea.com/starwars/battlefront/news/star-wars-battlefront-community-update-5 http://starwars.ea.com/starwars/battlefront/news/star-wars-battlefront-community-update-5

Allan.

[JGuth2]

Worst reply ever.

It's nothing to do with Apple, clearly. It's an Intel chip running Intel drivers in Windows.

The game tells the user specifically when it's run on an Intel GPU that it DOES support xx.xx.14 drivers (4400 up I believe) so EA have tested it on Intel GPU's. The reason it doesn't work on the 4000 is because of the DirectX crash caused by the driver.

[Allan_J_Intel1]

If you checked the link I posted previously, clearly indicates as minimum specifications the Skylake processor with Intel® HD Graphics 530 not the HD 4000.

Again, your computer does not meet the requirements for your game.

Allan.

[gbhj]

allan_intel the HD 4400 and up can run the game like in other posts about the game not working this is caused by the driver not conforming to the directX 11 standard also despite the HD4000 being a shader model 5.0 GPU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_and_Iris_Graphics# Capabilities Intel HD and Iris Graphics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) intel has discontinued producing drivers for this GPU https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25313/Intel-HD-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-7-8-1-10-3rd-Gen-BYT- Download Intel® HD Graphics Driver for Windows® 7*, 8.1*, 10 (3rd Gen & BYT) and no longer will provide support.

you can try renaming the exe of the game to force the driver to behave differently

[Allan_J_Intel1]

Thanks for the information;however, I have responded based on the game requirements at: https://help.ea.com/en/ https://help.ea.com/en/

Allan.