Yeah, that's pretty much been standing procedure for Intel for as long as I can remember. It'd be a bigger deal if that actually implemented substantive new features in drivers for their supported products (better OpenGL support, better performance, etc. etc.).
RE: Also, interestingly by Andrew.a.cunningham on Wednesday, February 08, 2012
You can find their Ivy Bridge graphics driver at station-drivers.And guess what... it only supports Ivy and Sandy bridge.Which basically means that they're probably continuing to only support the two latest GPU generations in their latest branch. Which basically means if you want features and performance improvements in the long term, do not go for an Intel GPU, even though the hardware may support everything you need.
Also, interestingly by KaarlisK on Tuesday, February 07, 2012
You mean one guy at windows driver development gets more work done (3 bug fixes) than 2 in linux?<sarcasm>
RE: Who'd a thunk it? by wifiwolf on Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Given that they have more than one guy working on their Linux driver I very much doubt that is true.
RE: Who'd a thunk it? by Bluestealth on Tuesday, February 07, 2012
"Intel's latest and greatest fixes just three documented issues"Must be because Intel's graphic driver is so close to perfect that nobody can find any bugs in it!(Or maybe the one guy at intel that does the graphic driver took a holiday in December and three bugs is all he had time to fix)
Who'd a thunk it? by fic2 on Tuesday, February 07, 2012
There are many bugs to fix; Intel's drivers are the worst on the market. Many computers refuse to even take the generic drivers, claiming that you must get them from your computer vendor (who of course haven't updated the drivers in ages).Toshiba's Intel drivers, for example, have completely broken flash video acceleration. The newest Intel drivers fix the problem, but they refuse to install unless you get tricky. Which I did, at which point the problems went away.I've still experienced issues outputting to Samsung televisions over HDMI, and miscellaneous minor but annoying issues.
RE: Same ol' Intel by Guspaz on Wednesday, February 08, 2012
which bugs are there to fix? most people who use these don't play games or do lite gaming. you turn the laptop on, you get a picture. the drivers work.the only issue i've found is some youtube videos are screwed up but that may not be the driver, but the encodingmost amd/nvidia driver updates are custom settings in the driver for each game
RE: Same ol' Intel by alent1234 on Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Didn't Intel say they were going to put more effort into graphics drivers? 5 months later and we have 3 updates. I guess they have better places to go with their record profits.This is why Intel graphics are met with so much skepticism. Sure, more performance is found in each new version of the hardware, but the support is outright pathetic. AMD and nVidia spend lots of time, money, and effort on drivers, because it is a very big deal.
Same ol' Intel by MonkeyPaw on Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The refresh rate thing has actually been really annoying, so I'm glad to see the fix.
RE: I might be pleased! by MooseMuffin on Wednesday, February 08, 2012
"an issue where the driver would change the refresh rate while on battery power"I think this might actually fix something odd that I noticed. I turned my AVR to my HTPC the other day, and I noticed that XBMC didn't look right at all (looked like the resolution got messed up). I realized after reading that fix that my power went out for a brief moment prior to that event, and it would have gone on battery backup. I don't know how much XBMC likes having the resolution (including refresh rate) adjusted while it's running.
I might be pleased! by Aikouka on Tuesday, February 07, 2012
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