Fixing Intel 950 Video Card to Play Games

One of my favorite games of all time is Grand Theft Auto 3, I had it for the PS2, Xbox, and now the PC. It worked great on my laptop when XP was installed but the new drivers for Vista, well thats a different story. The game would freeze up and after exiting out of it I had a whole list of errors concerning the card not responding. After searching the web for a bit I found a fix for popular games GTA 3 and World of Warcraft. Its rather simple all you have to do is download the newest drivers, that do not appear in the Windows Update by the way, from the Intel site.

But here’s the tricky part.

You have to install the update the manual way by doing the following.

First download the Zip version of the driver not the .EXE one.

This comes straight from the installation readme that comes with the package.

1. Click “Start” then right click on “Computer” button and then choose Manage.

2. Permit the User Account Control to run by selecting the “continue” button. When the Computer Management window opens select the “device manager” icon.
   1. (NOTE: IF UPDATING DRIVER GO TO STEP 3B) Double click “Video Controller (VGA Compatible)”. (Go To STEP 4)

   2. Select “Display adapters” then Double click on the graphics controller shown.
3. Click on “driver” tab and select “Update Driver”.
4. Select the following option: “Browse my computer for driver software.”
5. Select the following option: “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.”
6. Click on the “Have Disk…” button and then the “Browse” button.
7. Enter the directory where you unzipped the file you downloaded, and then enter the “Graphics” subdirectory. Locate and highlight the “igdlh.INF” (if 32-bit) or “igdlh64.INF” (if 64-bit). Click on the “Open” button.
8. Click on the “OK” button. A window listing all of the available display types should open. Select the display adapter that your system contains and then click on the “Next” button.
9. Click on the “Next” button. The operating system will install the driver. Click on the “Finish” button when done.
10. Click on the “Close” button and then click on the “Yes” button to reboot. The driver should now be loaded.

Now after you reboot you should be able to play all of your favorite games without any issues, but remember — its integrated graphics — so don’t expect to run anything “too powerful.”