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
Here you can find similar drivers with different versions or releases for different operating systems:
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- October 28, 2022
- Windows 10/11
- 1.1 GB
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- June 9, 2021
- Windows 10
- 454 MB
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- April 16, 2021
- Windows 7 / 8
- 244 MB
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- May 15, 2019
- Windows 7 / 8
- 122 MB
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- November 14, 2016
- Windows (all)
- 176 MB
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- June 21, 2016
- Windows 7 / 8 64-bit
- 126 MB
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- June 21, 2016
- Windows 7 / 8
- 96.8 MB
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- May 9, 2016
- Windows 10 64-bit
- 198 MB
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- May 9, 2016
- Windows 7 / 8
- 199 MB
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- May 3, 2016
- Windows 7/8/10
- 110 MB