Can't run HOI3 with Intel G45. It goes thru loading screens and plays music. When it gets to "Map properly initialized" the watch cursor changes into a hand, then back to watch, then back to hand. After that HOI3 freezes, the music keeps playing and the cursor can be moved but otherwise nothing happens.
On the terminal I get lots of errors like this:
I have installed HOI3 following this guide (thank you), the installation went seemingly problem free. I also installed patch 1.2, it gave one error about hoi3.exe being a locked file that it could not update, but otherwise it completed ok. This problem was the same before and after the patch.
My computer has an Intel G45 display controller built in on the motherboard. I don't know how much display memory it actually has or uses, BIOS gives options for 32, 64 or 128MB but also says they only matter for DOS. When I set the VideoMemorySize registry key to 128 HOI3 refuses to run, when I set it to 256 or 512 I get the freeze described above. According to Intel, the G45 should support Pixelshader.
Is there anything to try before going out to buy a new graphics card?