I bought Wolfenstein: The New Order because I absolutely love the series. I pre-ordered it pretty much on day of announcement, and waited for, what, a year for it? It comes in and I go through the 50gig install and... I can't run it. I'm able to get to the main menu, but it stops responding when I click on New Game. Of course. this is a driver issue. I've been frustrated with driver issues before, but this is the first time it's actively prevented me from playing a game.

So, go to check the Acer website to see what they can give me. The answer? Jack shit, they apparently stop supporting their products the moment that they stop manufacturing them. I check the AMD website and they have updated drivers for laptops, but the problem there is that the drivers aren't compatible with computers with switchable graphics.

Of course, I can't talk to Acer support because they don't support my computer anymore, unless I want to spend at least 20-fucking-dollars, and that is astonishingly appalling. So thanks Acer, thanks for leaving me with outdated drivers and, as far as I know, no workaround for this issue. Go fuck yourselves.

Do you have a Steam account? Have you tried to get Steam to update your card? I had a problem updating my ati card, but it did update through steam.

Yup to both, it doesn't work at all, just opens up the AMD driver page that I get to on my own.

Have you tried just disabling and uninstalling the dedicated graphics completely, then going back in and manually forcing a driver onto the hardware? I had to do that with a HP laptop once. I think I recall that after I pushed the new driver I had to manually disable the integrated graphics. The downside was I had to have a system restore image handy because if the dedicated goes and you've manually broken integrated, you might not get a GUI even in safe mode? Maybe? I always thought the software accel would give you a GUI but I seem to remember having to do that for some reason.

If you get it working I'd like to know how it is as a game (I don't trust corporate game sites). If you can't get it working I think that qualifies as a viable review as well.

Rule 1, never buy a brand manufactured computer.

But because you already did, try this:

Find out what type of driver it uses, and download it directly from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, etc.

Force the installation using "Legacy" mode.

Acer isn't the best manufacturer out there but frankly I've even had the same experience with Sony. They also eventually stopped updating the drivers for my Vaio laptop and at some point I seriously needed new drivers (some game wouldn't work without them). I couldn't install the official Nvidia drivers (trying so would result in a message that I have to get them from my manufacturer) and of course there was no way to get them from Sony whose own drivers were a year and a half old at that point. To make it worse - eventually I switched from Vista to Windows 7 and no drivers were officially available for that one - although apparently I WOULD have gotten them if I had updated to Windows 7 via some initiative by Sony rather than just buying Windows 7 separately.

So yeah, unless things have changed since then Sony isn't any better than Acer when it comes to this stuff.

That's fairly tough in the notebook/laptop industry.

I was content to know that it had a 50 gig 0-day patch for a game that previews were saying sat around 12-15 hours.

Unless it comes with four hours of HD pr0ns there's no sense in that kind of patch.

Try unpacking those files you found from AMD, go into Device Manager > Action > Add Legacy Hardware

Point the installer to the correct .inf file.

It was only 10gigs. And there is apparently some sex in there too? I've mostly heard good and great things about the game so far.

Oh crap, overlooked the laptop part when I read the original post.

Yeah, it was the PS4 or XBONE version that was 50 gigs, I recall. It was probably exactly what you would expect, which is to say the entire game, but still - that's a terrible thing to do, even to people who have good broadband.

Are you able to disable the switchable mode in the BIOS and force it to use the dedicated chip only? If you can you should be able to use drivers from the AMD website.

I had to do that with my Alienware laptop since Dell stopped updating their drivers after a single update.

Which driver is incompatible? For which parts of the hardware?