Hey there.

I got my hands on an old copy of might and magic 5 and have installed the game.

The game loads up fine and runs through the Ubisoft intro screen and right up until you choose the first level of the campaign where it crashes at the end of the loading progress bar and prompts an 'exe has stopped working message.

I presume it's because my GFX card isn't supported with the original (un patched - Release V 1.0) game version.

I'm trying to run it on an Acer Aspire WLMi laptop, Vista home premium. 1-G memory. GFX card - Intel 945GM.

I've had quite an extensive look through the advice threads on here and have tried my best to look into a few possible fixes, but due to several links not working and several possible fix .exe file uploads no longer being on hosted sites my attempt at fixing the issue has been cut short.

My question is has any updates that have been released made it possible for my Graphics card to be supported? I read about patch updates dealing with support for more graphics cards but have not been able to find any more specific information about which patches are applicable for my situation.

Also if there is any other known fixes that would be sweet. As i said its not a total crash, the game runs up until it tries to load an actual game/level/mission 3d environment so I presume its something to do with 3d rendering capabilities.

I have the most updated version of DX installed, all drivers are up to date... so on and so forth.

I will post a DX report if asked to.

Thanks in advance.

Video HW Transform & Lighting - needed - my card doesn't support this

Vertex Shader Ver 1.1 - needed - my card doesn't support this.

everything else is up to spec.

my question still stands. Do any patches create options to disable the need for these functions of the graphics card, possibly options to disable specific graphics settings within the game?

i.e. "older graphics cards are supported in patch updates" - Does this apply to my question above?