Crashes with odd Gray Fog

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Hello all and thanks in advance for the help. I've been trying to get the game running for quite a while tonight and I just keep this issue where the game campaign starts up, I see two guys standing in a gray fog and then it either crashes or freezes. I've installed the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows 7 and even tried 3d-analyze. My debug.err is

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1XNffjvB9oQjgcCMzbJNaba7vocJ_qouJWFO3TxgEPjw Thanks again for looking at this.

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The Intel 945 chipset doesn't meet the game's minimum requirement of DirectX 9.0c compatible video, and what feature support it does have for shaders is emulated through software. It's possible that there is a newer driver than 2009 available from Intel for it that may help, but otherwise it's likely you'll need to play on a machine with better graphics capability.

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