‘Sandy Bridge’ Driver Update Boosts Windows Game Performance

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‘Sandy Bridge’ Driver Update Boosts Windows Game Performance

September 21st, 2011 ipadoholic Leave a comment Go to comments

Intel has expelled a graphics motorist refurbish for its Sandy Bridge processors that boosts opening up to 37 percent for games on Windows 7 and Vista.

“This leading graphics motorist refurbish for 2nd era Intel Core processors with Intel HD graphics improves diversion opening by up to 37% on ULV platforms,” Intel mentioned in a statement.

ULV–or Ultra Low Voltage–processors are Intel’s many power effective and are typically used in gaunt and/or condensed laptops such as Hewlett-Packard’s

ULV-based systems will see the greatest opening improvement, Intel said. “It is where a few of the greatest gains are seen on the driver,” Intel orator Dave Salvator said. But the motorist refurbish relates to all systems with Sandy Bridge processors sporting HD graphics.

Links to 32-bit and 64-bit drivers for Windows 7 and Vista are here . And note that Intel doesn’t affirm to have the fastest graphics fragment on the block–that award goes to Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. But its graphics silicon does fool around what Intel calls “mainstream games.” A list of the upheld games is here .

In connected Intel graphics fragment news, a slip (below) from final week’s Intel Developer Forum indicates encouragement for 4,096×4096 fortitude on Intel’s arriving Ivy Bridge chip–due by the initial entertain of next year. This is far over the fortitude of today’s 1080p standard. The slip includes a couple to a YouTube shave entitled “4K Resolution Time Lapse Footage (timelapse) – American Cities,” that demonstrates this capability.

Another slip in the same display stipulates that “you need ultra-high bandwidth Internet connection” to accomplish this high-resolution video. The slip adds that an “MFX engine in Ivy Bridge can resolve up to 4,096×4,096 resolution…Also has ample opening to playback multi-part 4K videos.”

And Ivy Bridge binds other connected goodies. “Ivy Bridge will let people amend (decode, encode, transcode) 4K calm in to other formats,” Intel’s Salvator said.

Ivy Bridge will moreover add encouragement for Apple’s OpenCL and Microsoft’s DirectX 11 graphics increase in speed technologies. As good as encouragement for USB 3.0.