Intel Releases the 15.31.3.64.3071 HD Graphics Driver
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This update for Intel HD Graphics 4000 / 2500 provides a range of performance improvements and support for OpenCL 1.2.
Intel has released a driver update for the Intel HD Graphics 4000 / 2500 found on 3rd Generation Core Processors that provides support for OpenCL 1.2 for "general purpose programming using CPU, GPU and hardware acceleration." The drivers also offer reduced CPU overhead and improved gaming performance, including a 10 percent increase in Batman: Arkham City, Starcraft II and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria.
The Intel 15.31.3.64.3071 HD Graphics Drivers are available for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and 8.
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Quick, what's the temp in Hell? Are they getting snow? A blizzard??
The 10% must be measured by a previous max FPS of 10 to a current max FPS of 11 @ 800x600 low detail settings all lighting and shadows disabled....
HD4000 is actually not that bad with the new driver. I was able to play a few modern games at medium settings on 1280x1024 with around 25-30fps (with the GPU slightly overclocked to 1.3Ghz, from the default 1.15Ghz)
No artifacts or errors.
Someone who plays casual games can actually use it, so stop the bashing....
Level 58, Skyrim with i5-3427U HD4000 1440 native resolution - It's medium low settings but I'm almost done and gonna install the Dragonborn expansion. I have some HD texture mods, deadly dragons, etc. and the game is still playable as a sneak-archer.
Doom 3 (which was a painful piece of sh*t) was also playable as well as Civ 5.
The new driver interface is awful though - it's like a cheap copy of Nvidia/AMD - Intel is still learning. I hope they keep improving drivers.
While they have made leaps and bounds, they still have a generation or two to go. Right now a casual gamer is fine with HD4k as it plays WoW at 30fps average @1080p in a non raid setting, but WoW is almost 10 years old...
All you'll see is screenshot slideshow of Lara Croft
Good enough