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Mobile Intel® 945GM Express Chipset Family INCOMPATIBILITY PROBLEMS to login SL with Windows 8


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Mobile Intel® 945GM Express Chipset Family INCOMPATIBILITY PROBLEMS to login SL with Windows 8

Yes, INTEL page says that they will NOT develop a new driver compatible with Windows 8 for this graphic card and ask for consumer to find at Windows Update page some solution, but none is found there too.

Well, everithing is working OK in my system and programs, but the SL login not.

The error message is:

The graphics card was not installed well, it is not up-to-date or not supported for the hardware. Try to update the driver. Contact the Second Life Support page if this message appear again...

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It sounds like you are out of luck.  SL and a lot of on-line games have problems with integrated mobile graphics chips anyway.  We get many questions here from people who discover that integrated chips may be fine for simple office applications but are no substitute for a dedicated graphics card.  From what you said, Intel seems to have decided that the 945GM Express Chipset is not going to work well with Win 8 either. That's no surprise.  It's a very old chip, introduced back in 2005 or so.  If you really want to use that computer for SL, I think you'll have to reinstall Win 7 or whatever was there before.  Even then, expect to get low-quality graphics from it.

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I'm afraid you are not going to find a solution for your problem as long as your computer has the GMA 945 Express Chipset.  Intel eliminated the on motherboard intergrated accellerators about 2 years ago and moved the intergrated graphics accellerators to the CPU chipsets.  Technology has out run your computer's ability to "keep up".

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History

Before the introduction of Intel HD Graphics, Intel integrated graphics were built into the motherboard's northbridge. This included Intel Extreme Graphics and the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator. As part of the Platform Controller Hub (PCH) design, the northbridge was eliminated, and graphics processing was moved to the central processing unit (CPU).

In January 2010, the Clarkdale and Arrandale processors were released with HD Graphics, and branded as Celeron, Pentium, or Core.

In January 2011, the Sandy Bridge processors were released introducing the "second generation" HD Graphics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_Graphics 

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About the only thing you can do is find the most recent driver for the GMA 945 and install it.......hope for the best (but I doubt it's going to work well, if it works at all).  It's a good idea to go to your computer manufacturer for the driver instead of Intel's driver download site (many laptop manufacturers require customized drivers for the specific computer the graphics adapter is installed in.......read the "Driver FAQ's" before you update or install any driver for Intel intergrated graphics).

You can also remove Windows 8 and go back to Windows 7...........but the problem with that is that installing a newer driver under Windows 8 will likely cause problems on Windows 7 unless you recorded the driver version before you updated it.  That will allow you to go back to the driver that worked before you started switching drivers around (few people do that but it should always be done before making any driver change).

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