The fact that portal is a source engine game gives it instant "hard to run on Intel Gma Graphics chips" status. Running the game in direct x 8.1 would probably be your best bet and once you are in the game menu tweak around with your settings and see if you can get it to run without the -directx8 extension.
The white screen with background music sounds very similar to a problem a lot of people had trying to play oblivion on geforce 5xxx chips and other low end gpu's, although this was fixed with a program called oldblivion. You could try turning your screen resolution down before starting the game as that used to be a fix to a white screen problem in AOE. Other than that the last things I would try is defrag your hard drive, reinstall the game and then uninstall your graphics drivers and put the latest stock drivers on. On Sep 14, 2009 9:36 PM, "aniruddhster" <[email protected]> wrote: yup..tried compatibility mode as well....no results --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are su... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "INTEL 9XX Gaming" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/intel9x-gaming?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
