GMA x3100 Shader Support WHERE IS IT??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shildren]

I am trying to run a few games on my laptop Dell 1525 w/vista 1g ram 120gb hdd. Every time i go to install company of heroes on my laptop everything comes up fine until it goes to check my shader support model it reports that 1.1 is needed to play, but shows 0.0. Funny thing is that the gma x3100 will support 4.0 this year, yet supposedly already supports 3.0. however new drives did not fix and tech support tells me that there is no shader support available for the x3100 at all. AAAAAAARGGGGGGGGHHH!!!

sorry about that I just dropped 600 bucks on this laptop only to find that the one thing i wanted it for I can't do. HELP PLEASE

[davidc1]

You can't run company of heroes?? Weird, I haven't heard of that before. I have the X3000(desktop) and it runs fine. And you can also see in forum posts that they can run it too. Check to see that you really have the driver installed. Sometimes, it does not install properly.

[shildren]

I'll double check, one of the drivers that I downloaded would not install at all. It kept saying that it was not compatible, that one was from dell, the other i downloaded from intel and it didn't change anything, but i'll try again.

[chou_yang]

LMAO. I've got the same issue. I just bought a new Sony VGN-CR320E with a X3100 Graphics and it can't play Company Of Heroes.I downloaded the driver update as well and it says "Incompatible" AHHHHHHH. Oh well, I'm pretty sure Intel is working on the new update. We'll just have to be patient..... ARGHHHH.... I'm with you on this man. I hate it.... hopefully they update it soon enough.... I really want to play COH and I can't really update my Vid Card so I'm stuck with it.... Ehh..

INTEL, HURRY WITH THE SHADER MODEL!!!!! WE NEED THE X3100 TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT SHADER MODEL 4.0!!!!!!

[mauri82]

I have a VAIO VGN-CR150F with a X3100. The lastests drivers that sony provides are old, very old.
I downloaded the ones from the intel site, and instead of just running the .exe, I unzipped them, and forced my vaio to use them. I haven't tried this game you're talking about, but the performanced increased a lot with other games.
Now I'm using 15.7.3 (from the intel web site, dated 1/10/2008), while sony provides drivers dated 05/15/2007

[shildren]

problem is that I have vista and it won't just let me unzip and force it to use the drivers. it's being quite the @** but I'll give it a shot.

[mauri82]

I have windows vista too. I used the software "winrar" to unzip de EXE file that I downloaded from the intel site. Once uncompressed, In the device manager, I forced the installation.
If you have any question, just ask me.

Greetings,

Mauricio.

[chou_yang]

If you would be kind enough to explain to me step by step on how to do that. I'll gladly appreciate it man. I heard there was a way around it too. Many people have been going through the same problem with the drivers not being compatible.

[mauri82]

Well, when I get back home I'll try to explaint it step by step.

Greetings,

Mauricio

[chou_yang]

Thank you very much! =D

[mauri82]

As I said, here is my little guide to install intels driver on your laptop.

First, you must download the zipped version of the driver (not the EXE file) from here: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&ProductID=2800&DwnldID=14964&strOSs=153&OSFullName=Windows%20Vista*%20Home%20Premium,%2032-bit%20version〈=eng (this is the link for vista drivers).

Once youve downloaded it, just unzip it somewhere in your hard drive.

Then you must open the device manager. To do this, right click on My PC (it will depend on your windows version, XP or Vista. The names be different too, as I have my Windows in Spanish) and open Properties. In that screen, click on Device Manager.

The device manager will pop up. Find the Display device node and open it. There youll find your X3100 under the name Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family.

Right click on it, open its properties, and go to the driver tab. Click the Update Driver button. It will pop up a windows asking how do you want to search the drivers, click the second option Search the driver on your PC.

In the next step, youll have two options again: point to a path for the drivers, or Choose from a list. Click choose from a list. Then click the Have disk button and browse to the path where you unzipped the drivers at the beginning of this little guide.

Thats all, accept everything until every windows close. If at any time windows says that those drivers are not for your hardware, ignore it.

Once done all this mess, the next time intel release a driver, just download the EXE and run it, this time wont say your hardware is incompatible.

TWO NOTES:

- First, as I say before, my windows is in spanish, so the translation of the name of the buttons and messages might not be exact.

- Second, but not less important, I descrived what I did on my VAIO CR. I won't take the blame if something goes wrong, but i'll try to help you in that case.

In my VAIO, vista gave me a score of 3.0, that rised to 3.2 when I updatated the drivers. I also tried this on a Lenovo Thinkpad R61i, and the score went from 3.0 to 2.8, so its up to you to test it.

Greetings,

Mauricio

[fatal1203]

hi im using an ASpire 4315-2963, and i have the same GMA X3100, but mine says it uses 64mbs? i heard it uses 348... am i wrong? or do i need to update the drivers

[a886505]

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