Ooo, I received an email.
Today I received in the mail a question from a reader, and like most email that I receive it’s about questions on how to run netbook games. Unfortunately, the latest email has an issue with No One Lives Forever 2. I, unfortunately, am unable to fix this, so I’m opening it to the readers we receive.
Hi Corporal,
I’m writing to you in the hope of getting some information regarding a rather strange issue with NOLF2, which i am trying to run on the following rig:
Atom n550
Gma 31502G DDR3250G HDD11,6 LCD (1366×768, so netbook resolutions are not relevant concerns for me)
When i attempt to start the game, it crashes back to desktop with an error message whining about the lack of hardware T&L support. The reason of it being strange is that i’m able to run Tron 2.0 out of the box (which not only requires hardware transform & lighting support, but it also uses the very SAME Litech engine as NOLF2, not to mention that tron2 has an enhanced version of the engine with higher sys.req’s and still it plays smoothly).
I have encountered this problem back on my Fujitsu U9200 subnote. Back then, i found a GMA gaming forum on which i was recommended an unofficial version of the GMA driver, that worked fine, but the mentioned U9200 had a GMA 3000 GPU and with this 3150 unit, this unofficial driver generates other issues.
This T&l problem was encountered under both XP and Win7 starter.
Please, if you know anything about this issue or have a hint on resolving it, let me know. Thanks in advance and congratulations for your netbook gaming blog!
Tamás Csóti
He mentions that, “this is the site where i found the unofficial driver which worked with the GMA 3000 chip: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/860946/all”
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I had a pretty similar problem years ago when I had a powerVR graphics card. Back then I used a programs called 3d-Analyze from tommti systems. It had options to force t&l detection and eneable/disable rendering features that could greatly affect performance in many games.
go here: http://www.tommti-systems.de/start.html
click on files
click on the screenshot under “ToMMTi-Systems Tools”