I’m running XP on a Panasonic CF-R7 laptop with an Intel GM965 chipset, and mainly interested in working with Blender. I downloaded and installed the latest Intel driver, although I’m a bit puzzled because the version number, 14.32.3, is not what shows up when I output the DiagnosticReport, which tells me my driver version is 6.14.10.4906.
Mostly Blender behaves fine, but there’s a strange problem, where menu items do not highlight in realtime as they are selected (I can still select them) and text boxes do not give any feedback–I can write something in a text box, but cannot see what I’m writing, which is a big problem.
A Blender coder told me that this probably has to do with the front buffer not displaying properly. I have played around with the OpenGL settings in the driver dialogs, flipping policy, triple buffer, etc. But I haven’t made any progress.
Where are you getting the Diagnostic Report from? the driver version 6.14.10.4906 is most likely for a Nvidia card, not an Intel chipset. Perhaps your OpenGL driver is not installed correctly and it is falling back to software?
I found a solution for me and my XP laptop with x3100 graphics:
i downloaded newest vista driver for GM965 (Version 15.7.3)(LINK)
make sure you download the zip-File.
After downloading, open zip-Archive and copy the file
ig4dev32.dll,
which resides in the folder graphics into your blender folder.
start blender
now everything works fine. At least for me.
hopefully this will help other people as well.
EDIT:
just found out, this makes Blender use GDI renderer, but at least i can work with it, for the time being