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Haven't played in years because my hard drive was outdated. Finally updated from a hard drive to an SSD, added more RAM, updated to Windows 11, etc. Everything on my computer is running fine. Sims, o...
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Obscenesins The issue is obvious from your dxdiag: your laptop doesn't have a graphics driver installed and is instead using the basic driver, which is highly inefficient for gaming. So please reinstall the proper driver. Go here:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/laptops
Enter your serial number, choose your OS (just Windows 11 is fine) if prompted, click All Drivers, expand Driver-Graphics, and download the newest Intel driver by version number. The first number matters most, e.g. 32 is newer than 31; after that, the last four numbers matter.
Run the installer as an admin: right-click the download and select "Run as administrator." Restart afterwards and before trying to play.
If you see the same on-screen symptoms, or HP somehow doesn't offer a driver for your laptop at all, try the newest driver from Intel:
Here's how to get around a potential incompatible driver message (the driver is compatible, but HP software sometimes blocks drivers not provided by HP):
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000087660/graphics.html
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