Is there any way to force MM7 with grayface's to not use the integrated intel card?

[Sendoh]

I don't mean to resurrect an old thread, but did you ever find the solution? i'm dealing with the same issue

[GrayFace]

I don't mean to resurrect an old thread, but did you ever find the solution? i'm dealing with the same issue

I was checking a wrong thing last time. Save this script into Scripts\General (e.g. as Hook Enum Devices.lua) and run the game, then tell me what it will write into MMExtensionLog.txt:

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mem.autohook(0x49AF21, |d| print('GPU:', mem.string(d.eax)))

This is for MM8 with MMExtension, ideally for MMMerge, because it already has a pretty fresh MMExt.

[GrayFace]

Hey tomchen! Can you try it?

[Rodril]

I was checking a wrong thing last time. Save this script into Scripts\General (e.g. as Hook Enum Devices.lua) and run the game, then tell me what it will write into MMExtensionLog.txt:

Hello. I'm having same issue on laptop. This is content of MMExtensionLog.txt:

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Loading user settings from MMMergeSettings.lua
Cannot load user settings: MMMergeSettings.lua: No such file or directory
GPU:	Intel(R) HD Graphics 630

I have two GPUs: integrated one and GTX1060. When i launch MM8Setup.exe and set hardware acceleration, i have only one option in drop down menu: Intel(R) HD Graphics 630.

[GrayFace]

This is content of MMExtensionLog.txt:

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Loading user settings from MMMergeSettings.lua
Cannot load user settings: MMMergeSettings.lua: No such file or directory
GPU:	Intel(R) HD Graphics 630

I have two GPUs: integrated one and GTX1060. When i launch MM8Setup.exe and set hardware acceleration, i have only one option in drop down menu: Intel(R) HD Graphics 630.

Looks like it's a restriction of DX7 emulation of Windows.

[Sendoh]

Did anyone get to resolve it?

[Hylu]

I also have this problem, except the game is completely unplayable using the integrated graphics. It looks something like this:
https://imgur.com/9ofzZmD

It just flickers wildly and you basically can't see a thing.

[Rodril]

I also have this problem, except the game is completely unplayable using the integrated graphics. It looks something like this:
https://imgur.com/9ofzZmD

It just flickers wildly and you basically can't see a thing.

I had this problem with Intel Irix Xe untill one of last drivers update.

If drivers update won't solve the issue, try to use dgVodoo: https://www.celestialheavens.com/forum/10/16658
It will wrap the game to use modern DirectX, rather than DirectX7.

If none above works, you'll have to play in software mode, or globally change your main GPU to one, you prefer - I don't know the general way to do it.

[Hylu]

If drivers update won't solve the issue, try to use dgVodoo: https://www.celestialheavens.com/forum/10/16658
It will wrap the game to use modern DirectX, rather than DirectX7.

This did the trick, thanks a lot!

[tomchen1989]

I also have this problem, except the game is completely unplayable using the integrated graphics. It looks something like this:
https://imgur.com/9ofzZmD

It just flickers wildly and you basically can't see a thing.

I had this problem with Intel Irix Xe untill one of last drivers update.

If drivers update won't solve the issue, try to use dgVodoo: https://www.celestialheavens.com/forum/10/16658
It will wrap the game to use modern DirectX, rather than DirectX7.

If none above works, you'll have to play in software mode, or globally change your main GPU to one, you prefer - I don't know the general way to do it.

Oh thanks. It's been two or three years since I open the game. Recently I reinstalled the game on a new laptop with exactly the same Intel Irix Xe, and got the same issue, the game couldn't start. So I did some search and re-discovered this post which I participated although I didn't really have the issue (the game could start and ran well) on my old laptop at the time.

I just had to update Intel's driver to make the game run . Had Briefly tried dgVoodoo but no luck. NVIDIA settings doen't work for mm8 as I said before.

[tomchen1989]

Hey tomchen! Can you try it?

It's been years since my last login to the forum and I totally don't remember this post. I'm a little lost. Did you want me to try this ?:

I don't mean to resurrect an old thread, but did you ever find the solution? i'm dealing with the same issue

I was checking a wrong thing last time. Save this script into Scripts\General (e.g. as Hook Enum Devices.lua) and run the game, then tell me what it will write into MMExtensionLog.txt:

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mem.autohook(0x49AF21, |d| print('GPU:', mem.string(d.eax)))

This is for MM8 with MMExtension, ideally for MMMerge, because it already has a pretty fresh MMExt.

Well, I've just tried, but is that `|d|` in the script correct? Because it shows an error "\Scripts\General\Hook Enum Devices.lua:1: unexpected symbol near '|'".

[Tomsod]

That's the lambda thing Grayface added to new MMExt, you probably have an old version, so try this instead:

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mem.autohook(0x49AF21, function(d) print('GPU:', mem.string(d.eax)) end)