How to Fix ialmrnt5 Error

Recently Terraria had an update. We play it on three computers in our house. The older one had some severe issues with the update.

When Terraria would start, it would crash to a blue screen of death with the error 0x000000ea relating to the ialmrnt5 dll driver file. Something in the new graphics for Terraria would kill my system, a system that could run Terraria great until the 1.1 update. Since the bsod (blue screen of death) would only happen with Terraria, I believed that it was a driver problem. After reading online, this also appears to be a problem that others have had with games like Sims 2 and Minecraft.

I spent way too much time trying to figure this puppy out as all of the websites and forums that I visited were not much help. Many stated that there wasn't a solution except to buy a new graphics card or computer. That is not something I wanted to do with the third computer in our house. To help save you time, here is what I did.

My graphics card is a Mobile Intel 915GM/GMS 910GML Express Chipset Family. It's the cheap, preinstalled graphics card on a Dell Inspiron B120 that is still running Windows XP.

I went to Dell's site and updated everything that I could. The bios, the audio driver, the processor, the graphics card. I still had problems.

Then I went to Intel's site and download the newest (although the newest is four years old) graphics driver. When trying to install it, the system (my obsolete Dell computer) would not allow it because it was not verified by the manufacturer. The popup told me to go to the manufacturer's website and get the latest drivers there. I had already done that. There newest drivers were not new enough.

So here is what I did. I saved the new driver from Intel's driver site to disk. In order to find this driver, I had to use the "search downloads" option rather than navigate the menu from the beginning. They apparently hide the older drivers to make the site more streamlined for newer hardware.

Then, I downloaded the driver to disk. The key is to have it on your disk and extract it yourself. The self-extract, install will not work. I used 7-zip to extract.

After extracting, we need to manually update your graphics driver. Go into control panel>system>hardware>device manager. From there, choose display adapters. Right click on your adapter (in my case, Mobile Intel 915GM/GMS 910GML Express Chipset Family) and click update driver.

Select "Install from a list or specific location." This is an advanced procedure, but you are advanced now. Select "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install." Select your graphic driver again and press "Have Disk..."

From there you will browse to the folder you uninstalled the driver files to. Select the graphics folder within that folder. It will automatically show the file name (in my case igxp32.inf). Click "Open."

Now it will install your drivers.

For me, these new drivers did what the Dell approved drivers could not. Please let me know if this is the case if you are struggling with the problem on a Sony, Gateway, Toshiba, Acer, or some other computer.

I hope it helps.