Laptop video driver

George · Post by **George** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:55 am

Hah, HP thought they made it impossible for me to put ATI drivers newer than two years old on my laptop but they were wrong! All I had to do was uninstall everything, install the HP drivers, then manually update another device's driver with one from an ATI archive, then install a hacked version of another ATI driver, use a third party tool to reenable AGP transfers, and tweak some control panel options. But it was worth it. Not for performance reasons; Dungeon Lords still runs like crap. Not for compatibility reasons; I lost DVD playback until I extract another file from an older ATI driver and swap it in safe mode. What I gained was satisfaction that I beat THEM. THEY couldn't stop me. Yes, a productive evening...

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:44 pm

But dungeon lords still runs like crap ...

George · Post by **George** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:52 pm

The chipset is a 320M, which reportedly uses the same core as the Radeon 7xxx or 8xxx series. So it was obsolete years ago. However, there are people out there running WoW on them. Apparently, the new drivers have significantly better performance in some games. Dungeon Lords just isn't one of them.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:26 am

I can't believe you're still playing dungeon lords.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:21 am

Hahahaha I love the comments they have from critics posted on their webpage:

"...Dungeon Lords is a perfectly viable outlet for RPG fans..."

"But if they...are looking for a fun fantasy role-playing game, this might be worth a try."

If "viable outlet" and "might be worth a try" don't inspire me buy this game, nothing will!

George · Post by **George** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:04 pm

Jason wrote:I can't believe you're still playing dungeon lords.

I'm not, it's just the only game on my laptop so I have to use it as a test.