Custom Driver : Intel GMA 4500 M / MHD Extreme Plus 2 - by nIGHmAYOR

JakeCaKe113 said:

Hey! I have an MSI G41M-P26 (Intel GMA 4500) board, when the native driver is installed, games work (Valve, CS: GO, Portal), and displays a black screen with the mod. What to do? Thanks for the windows 10 driver.

I assume you installed Steam app while on the native driver then installed mine later , for steam this would seem like a complete change of video card not just a driver since the display name of driver change and previous configurations corrupt/collide .

The community of Steam mention that black screen startup happens a lot due to app/game configuration corruption and here are the ways they mentioned to fix it coming from several posts I waded through :

1 - Reset preconfigured startup options for troubled app/game (Follow this link : Please Wait... | Cloudflare)

2 - Alter between windowed or full screen mode using Alt+Enter

3 - Set the questionable games to run in windowed borderless mode which acts yet equal to full screen

4 - Consult forums dedicated for troubled games as sometimes it may be revealed that the minimum system requirements do not apply any more as certain developers continue to develop their apps further than the day they listed them on steam where they move it to higher Shader level etc so they are no longer compatible with older GPUs , where forums reveal such .

nIGHTmAYOR said:

I assume you installed Steam app while on the native driver then installed mine later , for steam this would seem like a complete change of video card not just a driver since the display name of driver change and previous configurations corrupt/collide .

The community of Steam mention that black screen startup happens a lot due to app/game configuration corruption and here are the ways they mentioned to fix it coming from several posts I waded through :

1 - Reset preconfigured startup options for troubled app/game (Follow this link : Please Wait... | Cloudflare)

2 - Alter between windowed or full screen mode using Alt+Enter

3 - Set the questionable games to run in windowed borderless mode which acts yet equal to full screen

4 - Consult forums dedicated for troubled games as sometimes it may be revealed that the minimum system requirements do not apply any more as certain developers continue to develop their apps further than the day they listed them on steam where they move it to higher Shader level etc so they are no longer compatible with older GPUs , where forums reveal such .

hi nightmayor,

Should I download your v2.1 beta version? Curently I am using yours v2.0 stable version.

Would it cause some unstable consequences after downloading v2.1 please?

Plus, are you planning in the future to announce its stable version? So, do u think should I wait the stable new version?

cikalekli said:

hi nightmayor,

Should I download your v2.1 beta version? Curently I am using yours v2.0 stable version.

Would it cause some unstable consequences after downloading v2.1 please?

Plus, are you planning in the future to announce its stable version? So, do u think should I wait the stable new version?

The beta just support more hardware ids to cover first generation of icore cpus/gpus , but no particular change in driver , i will consider it stable when I have few reports that people who have first generation icore cpus/gpus have installed it without issues .

You have totally ignored my beefy post however and moved on to the believe you need to replace the driver , for any particular reason ?

nIGHTmAYOR said:

I assume you installed Steam app while on the native driver then installed mine later , for steam this would seem like a complete change of video card not just a driver since the display name of driver change and previous configurations corrupt/collide .

The community of Steam mention that black screen startup happens a lot due to app/game configuration corruption and here are the ways they mentioned to fix it coming from several posts I waded through :

1 - Reset preconfigured startup options for troubled app/game (Follow this link : Please Wait... | Cloudflare)

2 - Alter between windowed or full screen mode using Alt+Enter

3 - Set the questionable games to run in windowed borderless mode which acts yet equal to full screen

4 - Consult forums dedicated for troubled games as sometimes it may be revealed that the minimum system requirements do not apply any more as certain developers continue to develop their apps further than the day they listed them on steam where they move it to higher Shader level etc so they are no longer compatible with older GPUs , where forums reveal such .

Thank you so much! I'll try to rewire both the driver and Steam from scratch!

cikalekli said:

Unfortunately, after tryig this trick with the link you provided sir, It is still remaining with 128mb :-(

Here is the screenshot after adding this trick inside the regedit:
Attachment 337363

I have finally had the laptop and tried to apply the HD memory hack several ways but with no luck , later on I managed to hex revise the driver code where I realized there is no account of reading from "DedicatedSegmentSize" any value , so apparently the GMA M GPUs work only with the check flag "IncreaseFixedSegment" which doubles the current dedicated memory on enabling while the GMA HD family read the new flag mentioned earlier to decide how much you need the segment size to be .

Now there are 2 alternatives , either forge the number to show higher than what is really dedicated but this doesn't resolve the matter , or rather integrate the memory handling code and sadly this is not just a minor hex edit to switch a flag from yes to no meaning the driver file will eventually change size and thus lose its integrity check and windows won't load it .

So basically we are down to accepting such cap of 128 mbs of dedicated memory , on the other hand I do not know why would any program actually check for that since such memory is allowed to expand to cover as close as 1.75 GBs of ram if available which are good for what this GPU is capable of running . So you need to start to accept that this is as much as you can squeeze out of this hardware .

Mean while do note that till date Intel release all its GPU drivers with the 64 / 128 mbs cap and all work fine with all graphics programs , where the 512 mbs hack is left out for geeks to try for god knows why .

JakeCaKe113 said:

Thank you so much! I'll try to rewire both the driver and Steam from scratch!

Hello. Checked from a clean install. In CS:GO, the black screen disappeared, but now the window has become transparent (the desktop is visible), the error "glfw error 65542 wgl: the driver does not appear to support opengl" appeared in Minecraft, the ways to fix it by replacing opengl in java do not help. I understand the platform is old (775 socket) and is not friendly with third-party drivers. Tried others, but yours is the best.
Upd: CS:GO support is discontinued on my G41

JakeCaKe113 said:

Hello. Checked from a clean install. In CS:GO, the black screen disappeared, but now the window has become transparent (the desktop is visible), the error "glfw error 65542 wgl: the driver does not appear to support opengl" appeared in Minecraft, the ways to fix it by replacing opengl in java do not help. I understand the platform is old (775 socket) and is not friendly with third-party drivers. Tried others, but yours is the best.
Upd: CS:GO support is discontinued on my G41

Now this is starting to feel weird basically because the native driver you mentioned does not have OpenGL support at all , I was dealing with your situation as probably you were just playing DirectX games the native driver support , but now that you mention OpenGL errors how were you able to run them on native driver really ?

Also my searches about CS:Go shows its minimum system requirement to be :

• OS: Windows® 7/Vista/XP
• Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 processor or better
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0
• DirectX: Version 9.0c
• Storage: 15 GB available space

So if you managed to find a tip from them they have elevated minimum requirements elsewhere please provide a link , also please hint if it still works for you on native driver .

nIGHTmAYOR said:

Now this is starting to feel weird basically because the native driver you mentioned does not have OpenGL support at all , I was dealing with your situation as probably you were just playing DirectX games the native driver support , but now that you mention OpenGL errors how were you able to run them on native driver really ?

Also my searches about CS:Go shows its minimum system requirement to be :

• OS: Windows® 7/Vista/XP
• Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 processor or better
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0
• DirectX: Version 9.0c
• Storage: 15 GB available space

So if you managed to find a tip from them they have elevated minimum requirements elsewhere please provide a link , also please hint if it still works for you on native driver .

Hello!
The native driver from the manufacturer's website has OpenGL 2.0 for Win7, for Win10 Microsoft released its own driver, but without OpenGL.
I entered CS: GO only for the driver test. Also Minecraft. They work quietly on their native driver (https://download.msi.com/archive/mb/...vga_764_mb.zip), but they don't want to use yours.
OpenGL is exactly 2.0 because it is native. it displays in GpuZ and runs Minecraft (it requires 2.0).
I really appreciate your work!

My system:
MSI G41M-P26
Intel Xeon E5450
RAM 4B
Disk: 2TB
Video: G41 (Intel GMA 4500)
DirectX 10

JakeCaKe113 said:

Hello!
The native driver from the manufacturer's website has OpenGL 2.0 for Win7, for Win10 Microsoft released its own driver, but without OpenGL.
I entered CS: GO only for the driver test. Also Minecraft. They work quietly on their native driver (https://download.msi.com/archive/mb/...vga_764_mb.zip), but they don't want to use yours.
OpenGL is exactly 2.0 because it is native. it displays in GpuZ and runs Minecraft (it requires 2.0).
I really appreciate your work!

My system:
MSI G41M-P26
Intel Xeon E5450
RAM 4B
Disk: 2TB
Video: G41 (Intel GMA 4500)
DirectX 10

are you on windows 7 ?
or the manufacturer driver works for you on 10?
again there is no way native driver work opengl games on 10