

Meanwhile, if you guys have any more ideas, I'm all ears. Unfortunately, EA games no longer supports BFME (it lost its LotR license rights back in 2010). My only hope is that intel will patch this for future versions of their drivers. I suspect intel cards also lack decent support for directx9. AMD's recent adrenaline drivers totally lack dx9 support). It's becoming more and more difficult to play DirectX9 games on modern machines (e.g. Sometimes, the games won't even launch, and when they do, there's usually graphical glitches all over. I know older games are susceptible to this kind of thing. I've trying everything to solve this issue in my HP laptop, including: running in compatibility mode, reinstalling the game, reinstalling graphics drivers, downgrading the graphic driver to the oldest I could find, experimenting with the options.ini file (including running it with read-only option ticked), meddling with the INI.big file in the game's directory which contains old graphical presets that could be overriding my ultra-high options, etc. You can find more details inside my reddit post. The common denominator - they all have laptops with intel integrated graphics cards. There's more people complaining about the same. As soon as I installed the game on a friend's desktop (same installer) the issue is gone. The reason I'm so sure about this is that I tested the game on 3 different laptops with (different) intel integrated cards and the problem persisted. I've been tackling this problem for a month now and I'm 99% sure this is an intel integrated graphics card issue. Water and trees are not rendered correctly they have low detail and are not correctly animated, even on UltraHigh settings. I am able to run the game, that's not the problem. I am trying to play BFME1 on my laptop, with windows 10. I have an HP Spectre laptop - i7, 8GB ram, intel hd 620 integrated graphics card.
