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Game plays, but I only see black - DavisJ3608 - 04-13-2011

All right, I'm going to come clean about this up front - I'm running a laptop with an integrated Intel graphics card. Yes, I'm fully aware that I'm not up to the specs. I'm wondering, though, if there's some kind of work-around or sommat that's come up or that I could volunteer to guinnia-pig for.

Here's the thing - with the whole Potato ARG going on, I'm reeeeeally wanting to play this game. For those in the know, I got the first potato (because you only needed to make a profile for that one), but there's no way I'm going to be able to actually do anything, since although I can hear just fine, I can't actually see to do anything Sad

So, TL;DR, my computer won't let me run the game. Is there a way for me to achieve potato-y goodness?

Oh, and in case they'll help, I've included my help.ini and a comparison JPG I ran with the RenderFeatTestRound2 program.

Help.ini:
Spoiler below!

Version 1.10
-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Engine build ID 20101021192547

Creating Engine Modules
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Creating graphics module
Creating system module
Creating resource module
Creating input module
Creating sound module
Creating physics module
Creating ai module
Creating gui module
Creating generate module
Creating haptic module
Creating scene module
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Initializing Resources Module
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Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
Adding loaders to handlers
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Init lowlevel graphics: 800x600 bpp:32 fs:0 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' posSad-1x-1)
Setting video mode: 800 x 600 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: Intel
Renderer: Intel® HD Graphics
Version: 2.1.0 - Build 8.15.10.2321
Max texture image units: 16
Max texture coord units: 8
Max user clip planes: 6
Two sided stencil: 1
Vertex Buffer Object: 1
Anisotropic filtering: 1
Max Anisotropic degree: 16
Multisampling: 1
Texture compression: 1
Texture compression S3TC: 1
Auto generate MipMaps: 1
Render to texture: 1
Max draw buffers: 8
Max color render targets: 8
Packed depth-stencil: 1
Texture float: 1
GLSL Version: 1.20 - Intel Build 8.15.10.2321
ShaderModel 2: 1
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 0
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0
ATTENTION: System does not support const arrays in glsl!
Setting up G-Bugger: type: 0 texturenum: 3
Adding engine materials
Initializing DevIL
Vendor String: Abysmal Software
Version String: Developer's Image Library (DevIL) 1.6.8pre Aug 12 2006
Version Number: 168
Adding engine post effects
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
0. Generic Software on Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)(OpenAL default)
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)'... Success!
Number of mono sources: 32
Streaming setup: 4 Buffers x 262144 bytes each
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Initializing Game Module
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Adding engine updates
Initializing script functions
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User Initialization
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Game Running
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-------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 5031 ms
Entities: 1799 ms
Compilation: 1 ms
Total: 6957 ms
Meshes created: 26
Bodies created: 5
-------- Loading complete ---------
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Statistics
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Medium framerate: 21.457983
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User Exit
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Saving main config.
Deleting game modules.
'LuxInputHandler'
'LuxHelpFuncs'
'LuxSaveHandler'
'LuxScriptHandler'
'LuxProgressLogHandler'
'LuxMapHandler'
'LuxMapHelper'
'LuxPlayer'
'LuxInsanityHandler'
'LuxDebugHandler'
'LuxEffectRenderer'
'LuxMusicHandler'
'LuxMusicHandler'
'LuxEffectHandler'
'LuxCompletionCountHandler'
'LuxGlobalDataHandler'
'LuxHintHandler'
'LuxPostEffectHandler'
'LuxPreMenu'
'LuxDebugHandler'
'LuxInventory'
'LuxJournal'
'LuxCredits'
'LuxLoadScreenHandler'
Deleting config files.
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Exiting Gui Module
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Deleting all sets
Deleting all skins
Deleting all gfx elements
Deleting all materials
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Exiting Generate Module
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Exiting Scene Module
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Exiting Input Module
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Exiting Sound Module
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Exiting Graphics Module
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Exiting Resources Module
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Done with fonts
Done with scripts
Done with particles
Done with sounds
Done with meshes
Done with materials
Done with Gpu programs
Done with images
Destroyed all textures
Done with sound entities
Done with animations
Done with ent files
All resources deleted
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Exiting Physics Module
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Exiting System Module
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Deleting game setup provided by user
- Deleting lowlevel stuff.
Physics
Sound
Input
Resources
System
Graphics
Haptic
HPL Exit was successful!

|--Memory Manager Report-------------------------------|
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| No memory leaks detected. Memory left: 0
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|------------------------------------------------------|

Comparison JPG
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RE: Game plays, but I only see black - jens - 04-13-2011

You tried turning all settings to off/lowest and restart the game?

RE: Game plays, but I only see black - DavisJ3608 - 04-13-2011

(04-13-2011, 07:18 AM)jens Wrote: You tried turning all settings to off/lowest and restart the game?

I have indeed, my good sir. My mouse seems to be moving at a pretty decent clip, but other than that I still can't see anything. Normally I wouldn't even bother posting because it's obvious my lame lappy really can't handle the game, but I reeeeally wanted to do the ARG stuff Sad

RE: Game plays, but I only see black - jens - 04-13-2011

There is nothing to be done I'm afraid, integrated does not work. It might in the future if the drivers are improved. Currently if you use Linux and have the very latest development version of the drivers for integrated Intel cards, the game actually runs as intended. So there is hope that those changes will transition to Windows.

RE: Game plays, but I only see black - DavisJ3608 - 04-13-2011

(04-13-2011, 08:17 AM)jens Wrote: There is nothing to be done I'm afraid, integrated does not work. It might in the future if the drivers are improved. Currently if you use Linux and have the very latest development version of the drivers for integrated Intel cards, the game actually runs as intended. So there is hope that those changes will transition to Windows.

Well, I knew with almost 100% certainty that there would be nothing I could do, but I figured it was worth a shot anyway :p

Worst case, I might need to go over and steal my friend's computer for a few hours. He won't be too happy about it, but it's worth it if I can get that next potato on my profile!