Guild Wars 2

I got a friend of mine to play the game with me but she only has a Laptop at her disposal most of the time. Its an Lenovo X220i with an i3 2310M/HD3000 running Windows 7 which is at the bare minimum requirements for the game but should probably work. Everything is set to the lowest possible option and she can play fine except for the glaring texture/shader bugs. She sent me a “screenshot” (from the external monitor) which I attached to the post.

Is there anything that can be done to fix this, or at least make those appear less often?

known issue on the HD3000
the 4000 on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have this problem.

Might be an intel driver issue (might not be as well).

latest intel hd 3000/4000 drivers can he had from
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Graphics&ProductLine=Laptop+graphics+drivers&ProductProduct=2nd+Generation+Intel%C2%AE+Core%E2%84%A2+Processors+with+Intel%C2%AE+HD+Graphics+3000%2f2000

This actually worked perfectly, no more artifacts. Somehow it didn’t come to me to update the video drivers for Intel. Probably just to used to ubuntu. I had her install the Lenovo specific drivers but those should be pretty much the same. Works on both the internal as well as the external display.