Intel HD4000 and Star Wars Battlefront

You should look to Intel for that level of extraordinary support.  EA doesn't want their game running as awfully poorly as would be the very best that an awful Intel IGP chip can actually  offer. 

Thanks for the reply! 🙂

Regrets for the negative reply. 

My Intel HD card is 4000 not 4400 or 4600. I only bought it one year ago!  It will not accept the driver being demanded by Origin. Direct x and all other drivers for my i7 3rd generation laptop have been updated. I have configured Battlefront to run windowed.   I am still left with the same black screen as before.

EA really needs to provide for graphics cards of slightly lower spec. What are the chances that Intel will provide a suitable driver any time soon?

Looks like I may have to ask for a refund.

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@Troutmask2001 wrote:

EA really needs to provide for graphics cards of slightly lower spec.

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This isn't slightly lower spec. Intel HD graphics aren't cards but integrated graphics chipsets that aren't meant for gaming. To support Intel HD graphics, they would have to lower their standards significantly.

Note that the error referring to driver versions is wrong. The hardware isn't supported at all, no matter which driver version you have. I think EA should update that error message.

Star Wars Battlefront 3 works on Intel HD 4000 for me. Here is how:

I have a Lenovo U310 with an Intel i5, 8 GB RAM and integrated Intel HD 4000, running Windows 7 64 bit. Starting Battlefront either from within Origin or from a desktop icon never went past the driver notification window shown in your message when modifying the usual Windows compatibility options. In desperation I then did several things in accordance with different online posts: 

* I activated speech recognition 

* I downgraded my up-to-date Intel graphics driver to the older 10.18.10.3277 version (http://support.lenovo.com/cy/en/downloads/ds038195), which is not specifically indicated for my laptop.

* I added the "-novid -noborder -windowed" game options in Origin

* I made sure no secondary screen was plugged into my laptop's HDMI port. 

In line with the driver installation I had to restart my laptop.

It worked. Starting SWBF3 from within Origin I still get an obsolete-driver message, BUT the game starts. Choosing from in-game Settings the native screen resolution of my laptop (1366x768) and between 50% to 70% rendering resolution gives playable frame rates. The game looks terrible this way, but this is an interim solution until my son can play his game on a newly ordered desktop machine. 

I now have to remove some of the above options to find out really what was the impediment to the game starting. That would be me working backwards to dissect the problem. For anyone wanting to move forward, downgrading to the Intel driver version linked above might be a good starting point.  

Good luck!

Subsequent edit: 

Deactivating speech recognition in Windows still allows the program to run

Removing game options in Origin does not seem to interfere either