Intel ships long-awaited graphics drivers
Owners of PCs with Intel's 965 chipsets can finally download drivers that will immediately improve the performance of games running on those systems.
The 965 chipsets were supposed to be a dramatic step forward for integrated graphics performance. Most PCs come with graphics technology built right onto the chipset that connects the processor to memory and the rest of a PC. Serious gamers opt for discrete graphics made by Nvidia or AMD's ATI division, but most people save a little money and get the basic graphics.
Intel wanted to make an integrated graphics chipset with more powerful graphics performance that would allow basic PC users to play some of the latest and greatest 3D games when it shipped the 965. But it has been unable to write the drivers needed to enable that performance until now.
Windows XP drivers are available here, but if you're on a Vista PC with Intel's 965 chipset, you'll have to wait a little longer. Intel put together a video here that shows the improved performance of PCs with the new drivers.
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on to their reputation as complete idiots
without a clue. What makes me voice such
a harsh statement. If you go to the page
intel provides to see their video on the
advantages that their new drivers provide,
you will see that it does not work. The page
claims that you need the following:
1. cookies enabled: gee who wants that!!
2. flash: ok fine, but what version?
3. A supported OS: what OS are they referring
to? My new Apple and HP can not get it to
work.
And here is the best part. They provide a link
to a more detailed system requirement page,
but when you click on it, you get a #404 blank
page.
Funny, I never have any problems viewing
videos on CNET, the Apple web site, and many
other web sites that I surf to each day. Come on
intel, get it together. People coming to your web
site do not have the time or desire to have to even
wonder if their system will be able to view the provided
video. Randys2cents
page, why I hate JS popup stuff on sites) and then I went to safari
prefs and made sure allow all cookies was on (I had it on only sites
I nav to, changed back after video), then I went to adobe.com and
downloaded latest flash 9 installer and ran it, and then it worked.
They're still idiots for not using something better than flash, but if
you wanted to watch the video maybe that will help.
a fellow fanatic but I'm thinkin you need to get better with the
computers before you rant....1=ur machine default security 2=you
need help deciding?? 3=the story did say they were for xp
drivers....so I'm thinkin the OS is
.....uh....probably...hmmmm...uhhh...what do you think?
* Flash? Just grab the latest (I've never had to go bother).
* Maybe your ISP is borked?
/P
As mentioned, gamers go for Nvidia or ATI cards... so Intel is way out of their league when it comes to graphics. It's a market they should just opt out of and leave it to the professionals.
3D/CG Graphics art and animation
DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray video
-so, no it ain't just for games, which is why the article went out
of its way to mention what most [i]gamers[/i] do, as opposed to
everyone else.
There's more to a video card/chipset than framerates in an FPS.
Oh, and about this:
[i]"you aren't going to want to do it with onboard video."[/i]
Funny, but isn't ATI now owned by AMD? I'm willing to wager
that they intend to make embedded ATI a lot more common in
their future offerings...
/P
In all honesty, Intel HAS TO IMPROVE INTEGRATED GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE! Really, I tried my best to tell my father to not get a computer with an integrated graphic controller, but my protestations fell on deaf ears.
Now, I have been able to get about 30 frames a second in WOW, but I have to turn off nearly all the bells and whistles in it in order to do that. That is not acceptable even for an IG solution.
Why not spend small portion of that money on a game console and not play games on a PC like a "loser" since the PC gaming market is being killed off?
That said, I avoid Intel boards PRECISELY for this reason. I usually use an ASUS or something along those lines because they usually have an nvidia or ATI integrated graphics chip, and for no extra.
Same with sound, btw. __ PCIe 1x is your friend. __ Same for dial up modems. And wireless cards.
I mean, there's got to be some kind of compromise like that. That way, if your mom or grandma wants a Wii, you can return the integrated thing , get one that's perhaps 4 times as powerful for $100, and use the money from the first card to pay for wiimotes. There are a lot of good flash games out there.
You notice I don't advise actually buying a Wii- for the exact reason I don't like integrated GPU's. And you can't even run linux on it. (I mean, what kind of crap is that!?)
Better yet, you know, just release the hardware interface so we can code our own frigging drivers.
Looks look at some facts. 90% of people dont buy PC's to play games. Intergrated graphics IS MORE THAN ENOUGH for those people. If they do play an occasional game, its solitare probably.
Even the Intel GMA945 runs Aero just fine. I have watched a movie on a Vista box with a GMA945 and done the 3d flip deal and the movie is going along just fine in the window while and I do that flip deal.
There are few people in here that need to stop gaming for a while and go hug someone...PEACE OUT!!!!
hate."[/i]
...and more than a little ignorance of graphics.
Ah well.
/P
WII does have lower end hardware than the xbox and ps3 but WII sells much better because of their content.
AMD/ATI has the exact same problem now. They hade the 2900/2600 video cards which can't sell. The graphics cards have poor drivers that hampers with the performance of the cards.
- New Integrated Graphics
- by seth.graphics January 26, 2008 12:46 AM PST
- I heard that the next generation of Intel graphics would include a significant increase in performance. Is it true that they are creating a high end card to compete with NVIDIA ? I guess the GPU/CPU integration allows intel's inexpensive integrated to increase in performance and still cost little and take less power
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