Intel Releases New Graphics Driver For Haswell and Broadwell CPU Users
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Intel has released a new Iris and HD Graphics Driver update for Haswell and Broadwell processors that certainly looks like it is worth updating your system to get. The latest Intel graphics driver is version 15.36.18.4156 and you can download both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the driver for your Windows 7/8/8.1 system now.
Intel claims that this driver provides up to a 10% better performance improvement when running 3DMark11 benchmark and fixes many game, application, display and UI issues. A table of the issues that have been resolved with this driver can be found below.
Key issues resolve with this release:
| System hang observed while playing Dead Rising 3 game | Windows 8.1 |
| Display corruption observed while playing Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris game | Windows 8.1 |
| Display corruption was observed near the hair details of a character while playing Resident Evil 6 Biohazard game with specific settings | Windows 8.1 |
| Display corruption observed on texture details of characters while playing Ryse: Son of Rome game | Windows 8.1 |
| Display flickering is observed while playing Halo 2 game | Windows 8.1 |
| Application crash observed while trying to run SPECviewperf 12 benchmark with Creo view settings | Windows 7 |
| Display corruption observed while running Worms: Revolution game with Conservative Morphological Anti-Aliasing (CMAA) setting enabled in Intel Graphics control panel | Windows 8.1 |
| Application crashes observed while running Cinebench Cinema 4D application | Windows 8.1 |
| Corruptions observed while running JUCE Demo application | Windows 8.1, Windows 7 |
| Hot keys registered by Intel graphics control panel are not released for usage by other applications even after disabling hot keys | Windows 8.1, Windows 7 |
| Brightness level does not change when resuming from monitor off state | Windows 8.1 |
| Sometimes the message Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered may appear when opening information center in Intel graphics control panel | Windows 8.1 |
| Display black out observed when resuming from hibernate mode with a DisplayPort 2.1 monitor attached to the system | Windows 7 |
| Display on attached HDMI monitor is split into three when changing the resolution of secondary display (4K2K) to specific resolutions | Windows 8.1 |
| Display garbage seen on 4K HDMI monitor when setting it in extended desktop mode and changing resolution to 2560×1600 | Windows 8.1, Windows 7 |
| Sometimes user is unable to change the aspect ratio on 4K HDMI monitor configured in extended mode. | Windows 8.1 |