Hey guys,
I have a HP G62-a21SA laptop with Intel HD graphics. I wanted to play a game that is out in Alpha. It's no very demanding and by the dev's own advice, even this laptop should run it no problem.
I am having an issue and with the advice of the Dev and his own troubleshooting it was identified that I needed to update my graphics drivers. I checked and sure enough they were from November-ish 2010. So, three years out of date and was worth a punt on updating.
I have been to the HP website and it says the ones I have are up to date. I wasn't buying that a driver three years old was the most up to date available. So I hopped over to the Intel website and downloaded the most recent drivers which were from Feb 2013, a much more reasonable date.
My issue is that my laptop won't allow me to install ANY updated driver after the 2010 driver.
The error I get is "the setup program failed to install one or more device drivers. Setup will exit".
I have tried older versions (of the 2013 driver) to no avail. I have read it's because I am attempting to install a generic driver on my HP laptop. That's actually what the intel driver detector says, too. I also deleted old drivers before trying to install the new ones and tried a windows update.
I'm just a bit puzzled by this because in the four years I've owned the laptop I've done maybe 8 destructive re-formats of the laptop and it has none of the HP bumf on it and hasn't for years.
I understand my laptop isn't for gaming, but really, the game I am trying to play really should run. I wouldn't be trying this otherwise. I'm well aware of the shortcomings on the hardware side that this laptop has.
Any advice, workarounds, anything would be much appreciated!
I have a HP G62-a21SA laptop with Intel HD graphics. I wanted to play a game that is out in Alpha. It's no very demanding and by the dev's own advice, even this laptop should run it no problem.
I am having an issue and with the advice of the Dev and his own troubleshooting it was identified that I needed to update my graphics drivers. I checked and sure enough they were from November-ish 2010. So, three years out of date and was worth a punt on updating.
I have been to the HP website and it says the ones I have are up to date. I wasn't buying that a driver three years old was the most up to date available. So I hopped over to the Intel website and downloaded the most recent drivers which were from Feb 2013, a much more reasonable date.
My issue is that my laptop won't allow me to install ANY updated driver after the 2010 driver.
The error I get is "the setup program failed to install one or more device drivers. Setup will exit".
I have tried older versions (of the 2013 driver) to no avail. I have read it's because I am attempting to install a generic driver on my HP laptop. That's actually what the intel driver detector says, too. I also deleted old drivers before trying to install the new ones and tried a windows update.
I'm just a bit puzzled by this because in the four years I've owned the laptop I've done maybe 8 destructive re-formats of the laptop and it has none of the HP bumf on it and hasn't for years.
I understand my laptop isn't for gaming, but really, the game I am trying to play really should run. I wouldn't be trying this otherwise. I'm well aware of the shortcomings on the hardware side that this laptop has.
Any advice, workarounds, anything would be much appreciated!
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