2010-02-08, 08:06 AM
You don't need to install Som ("the Som Toolset") in order to play Som made games. Neither are the games mods. If you're on an XP machine you just need to be sure your drivers are backwards compatible with DirectX7 (implement the DirectX 7 interfaces)
Your graphics adapter sounds a little funky to me. Usually a graphics card uses ATI or nVidia chipsets these days. It's possible your card doesn't do hardware acceleration if it's made by Intel (in which I'd guess it's more of a chip than an actual card) ...Intel based graphics hardware would probably be software based. In which case you'd need to be sure the game is using the DirectX7 software Direct3DDevice interface / that is implemented. It's just speculation but maybe your're playing your other games with a software device, and maybe DirectX7 is not implemented for that device. I really don't recommend playing Som with the software renderer. I use it a lot for testing purposes and it's very inferior and not at all consistent. Really you never know what to expect from the software device.
You might get some results from editing the ini file in order to set device=0 (software mode)
Your graphics adapter sounds a little funky to me. Usually a graphics card uses ATI or nVidia chipsets these days. It's possible your card doesn't do hardware acceleration if it's made by Intel (in which I'd guess it's more of a chip than an actual card) ...Intel based graphics hardware would probably be software based. In which case you'd need to be sure the game is using the DirectX7 software Direct3DDevice interface / that is implemented. It's just speculation but maybe your're playing your other games with a software device, and maybe DirectX7 is not implemented for that device. I really don't recommend playing Som with the software renderer. I use it a lot for testing purposes and it's very inferior and not at all consistent. Really you never know what to expect from the software device.
You might get some results from editing the ini file in order to set device=0 (software mode)