New IMPROVED HD 4000 Graphics Driver on the way from Intel this week.

[GoHack]

According to the attached article, Intel’s latest HD 4000 Graphics Driver, due out this week, improves performance up to 10%, reduces power consumption, and adds features.

Intel?s Latest HD 4000 Graphics Driver Improves Performance up to 10%, Reduces Power Consumption, Adds Features « Ultrabook News and the Ultrabook Database

 

[souldier]

That's great to know! Improved performance and battery life is always a good thing.

What I really want is the ability to have different scaling for multiple monitors and the ability to change scaling quickly without having to log out

 

[HookemAZ]

I wonder if these will be worth it or if the MS OEM version via update manage (hardware update) are still going to be the best due to the throttling issues.

 

[Profoxcg]

nice find !

 

[Arizona Willie]

Will that new driver come in Windows updates or will we need to go grab it?

 

[Ruffles]

Will that new driver come in Windows updates or will we need to go grab it?

It will eventually make its way to windows update but it might take awhile...and then it probably won't include the Intel Control panel app.

 

[qitupx]

you can already get that version here: intel drivers pour chipsets Graphiques

The surface pro seems to revert to the old version once a week though...very weird.

 

[tonyz3]

you can already get that version here: intel drivers pour chipsets Graphiques

The surface pro seems to revert to the old version once a week though...very weird.

yes I have noticed this also.

 

[Arizona Willie]

I just jumped through all the hoops and finally got the update utility to run and it said the HD 4000 had a custom driver and it could not update it.

 

[GoHack]

According to a posting here, Microsoft Surface Pro gaming performance and benchmarks - Page 6 ,
there is a noticeable improvement w/Beta Driver 15.31.3055.

 

[swanlee]

The main issue is if you have auto updates and you install these drivers it will think you no longer have the March 28th hardware update, then it will reinstall the hardware update and remove the video drivers. You can turn that off but I'm not sure if installing the video drivers changes anything else with the hardware update.

Hopefully MS puts these new drivers int he hardware update soon.