Intel HD Graphics Driver 15.22.57.2827 for Windows Vista/7 32-bit

The Intel HD Graphics Driver contains support for the following Intel Processors:

• 2nd generation Intel Core i3 processor
• 2nd generation Intel Core i5 processor
• 2nd generation Intel Core i5 vPro processor
• 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processor
• 2nd generation Intel Core i7 vPro processor
• 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family
• Intel Core i3 Mobile Processor
• Intel Core i3 Processor
• Intel Core i5 Mobile Processor
• Intel Core i5 Processor
• Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor
• Intel Pentium Processor

Performance Improvements:

This driver release was designed to increase 3D gaming performance on mobile platforms across a variety of titles. Intel has tested a number of games on the 2nd Generation Intel Core mobile processor with Intel HD Graphics 3000. The results listed below are for Mobile systems.

• Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty – Devil’s Playground FPS Gain 37%
• Resident Evil 5 Benchmark FPS Gain 10%
• Dawn of War: Chaos Rising FPS Gain 29%
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 FPS Gain 28%
• DIRT 2 FPS Gain 12%
• Supreme Commander 2 FPS Gain 16%

New Features:

• Wireless Display 2.1
• SGI OpenGL3.1
• Active Stereo S3D over eDP
• DVMT - Provide 1GB option for Pre-allocated Memory Support on client WDDM OS
• Encode MPEG2 Interlaced Frame support
• Get Connector and Monitor information API
• CUI SDK Display Color Space Converter support to all internal and external displays for 32 and 64 bit Win7.
• Add Overlay rotation capability to support BD film playback in rotated modes - 90/180/270 degrees.
• PWM backlight control support for night vision
• Add Intel HD Graphics 3000/2000 support for SDVO-DVI & SDVO-CRT
• Seamless Rotation

Resolved Issues:

• WebGL rendering anomaly in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers resolved.
• Eliminated minor rendering artifacts that were present in a few particular scenes in the following games:
  • Assassin's Creed
  • Darkspore
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  • Empire: Total War
  • F1 2010
  • King of Kings 3
  • Mass Effect 2
  • Medal of Honor
  • StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
  • Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
  • Sudden Attack
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution
• Fixed corruption issue in the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 game (DirectX 9 version)
• Fixed corruption in James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game game in DirectX 9 mode
• Fixed corruption issue that was present in Crysis game when antialiasing was enabled
• Text characters in the game menu of Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.2 displayed correctly.
• Dragon Age II game was starting in DirectX 11 mode by default
• OpenGL driver enhanced with combination of one new extension, performance optimizations, and fixes to enable and/or improve user experience. The following applications benefit from these enhancements:
  • Amnesia
  • Brink
  • The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
  • The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
  • CINEBENCH
  • Magic: The Gathering
  • Minecraft
  • SPECviewPerf 11 (OpenGL test)
  • Unigine (OpenGL)
• Aquarium screensaver showed a black square on second monitor and is now fixed

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