Ivy bridge, bad opengl picture quality.

Hi guys, i've got an ivybridge laptop and i was going to try trine 2 on it.
But the picture quality seems much worse (even at the max detail level) than the nvidia one.
See:
intel:
http://i.imgur.com/JHYYgpT.jpg
nvidia:
http://i.imgur.com/0KTL58l.jpg
See the pumpkins?
Is just the driver that works that way or is there a setting i can tweak?
thanks.

You are right, it does look worse on Ivybridge. Are you sure the graphics settings for the game are the same for both runs?
It may also be that the game changes how it renders based on the OpenGL driver, to account for bugs or features not implemented when the game was released.
Best thing to do would be to take a trace of the OpenGL commands issued by the game (you can use apitrace or some other similar utility) for Intel and NVIDIA, and probably ask an Intel driver developer to look into it.

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Hi,
As a personal note I find long posts like this hard to read if they are not broken up in to paragraphs.
As I say it is a personal thing.
I can give you some information about the camera and laptops over the past few years.
Basically in early Laptops of the MacBook Pro and MacBook range the cable did tend to fray at the point where it passed through the hinge. It did take a well used laptop that had the lid open and closed frequently to cause this. (your 2009 model might just be in that group - I have no firm dates or models I am afraid)
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However the cable has then tended to get pulled from the camera end and become loose.
This On Line Self fix site has pages about some models (The one I have linked to may not be yours)
I have linked in to later pictures in the sequence but there are navigation points to work back to the start.
Note:- they use pretty specifc specialest tools as well in these pics.
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Smiley,
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