Minecraft graphics card issue

Question

Like many other people I've had trouble playing minecraft since upgrading to Windows 10.  Admittedly I have a pretty old PC.  The graphics card is an Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0).  According to the Intel website there is no Windows 10 support for this card, which is not unexpected given the age of my PC.  What I don't understand is why minecraft worked perfectly well with the same card before I switched to Windows 10, and why only minecraft appears to be affected.  Everything else works fine.  I guess there's nothing I can do except replace the graphics card altogether given that the manufacturer is not providing windows 10 drivers for this piece of hardware?  Is there a coding work-around that will force Minecraft to accept my card?

Answer 1

A lot of people are being seduced into installing Win10 on machines that are too old (a release date around May '05

for the Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family),   because of MS's 'free' offer .

You did well to run Minecraft at all with an integrated graphics (GMA 950)  of that vintage,

and I would have been somewhat surprised that driver support didn't stop with Vista.

• Unfortunately you cannot upgrade integrated graphics, and if  you are using a laptop you cannot install

a dedicated graphics card.

If you are using a desktop PC you also need to verify the power supply has adequate watts/amps for whichever

graphics card you install.

You also need to verify the motherboard has PCIe rather than AGP graphics slots.

• Why only Minecraft ? Perhaps the other games you have installed have lower requirements.

eg- 'Point and click' style games with static, or mostly static, 2D screens may look nice, but don't require

much processing. Minecraft may look  basic, but can be more system intensive than it looks.

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Answer 2

No need to, i already fixed the issue on 3 of my pc/ laptops. Just tell me what video card you got, you can see by going to run and type: dxdiag  then click the second tab and you can see your graphics card.

I hope this was helpfull! just reply to me and i will be auto notified.

Answer 3

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24345/Intel-Driver-Update-Utility

use this. try this a few times. It helped for me

Answer 4

Intel 82945G Express Chipset  uses GMA950 Integrated graphics,

As was mentioned in my post as well.

(Wikipedia) -

"945GC^[32]^Lakeport-GC (cpu code name) - with integratedGMA 950 graphics

Release date - 2005.05  ...

The GMA 950 was the second graphics core produced under Intel's Graphics Media Accelerator product name, and was incorporated in theIntel 945G chipsets."

While a driver for Vista or Win7 may install, the graphics will not run optimally if no Win10 specific drivers are

available. From this point on things will only get worse when using what is deemed 'legacy' hardware with Win10.

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Answer 5

I named it in my original post,  it is an Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0).