- #INTEL HD GRAPHICS 4000 DRIVER FOR WINDOWS ME DRIVER#
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#INTEL HD GRAPHICS 4000 DRIVER FOR WINDOWS ME DRIVER#
We were actually able to use low to medium quality settings in Civilization V and get playable frame rates with both driver sets. Although, subjectively the game seemed choppy on Intel’s HD 4000 graphics solution irrespective of what driver we were using. Our performance results show that Intel’s latest driver offers a small, but clear advantage over its predecessor. Of course this was all in the name of teasing a playable experience out of our system. In Battlefield 3 we had to lower the game’s quality settings to their minimums, and then use a reduced resolution of merely 1366 by 768 rather than the 1920 by 1080 resolution that our test system’s monitor supports natively. Today testing is no exception to this notion. Using lowered quality settings is a common occurrence when you’re trying to get games to run on low-end graphics solutions like the HD 4000. And Max Payne 3 is a bullet-time-based third person shooter. CS:GO is an arcade-style first-person shooter. DOTA 2 is a multiplayer-online-battle-arena-style game. Civilization V is a turn based strategy game. Battlefield 3 is a classic corridor based first-person shooter. Crysis 3 is based around the capabilities of the nanosuit. These are all relatively recent games, that each represent a different gameplay style. For our testing today we’ve opted to look at six titles Crysis 3, Battlefield 3, Civilization V, DOTA 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Max Payne 3. We’re still using the same Intel supplied Corei7-3770K based test bed that we had for our original review of the HD 4000 around this time last year. So Intel hasn’t taken any steps backward in that regard, but compared to its counterparts from AMD and Nvidia Intel’s driver control panel still hasn’t reached feature parity. The functionality seems to be more or less equal between the two designs.
#INTEL HD GRAPHICS 4000 DRIVER FOR WINDOWS ME WINDOWS 8#
Of course we went right to work inside of S|A’s orbital lab to verify Intel’s claims.īy far the biggest change that Intel introduced with this driver is a new graphics control panel that eschews the dark and transparency laden visual style of Intel’s previous iterations for a brighter, more Windows 8 friendly, interface. 3071 driver was said to offer a ten percent performance boost over the prior release.
Back at GDC Intel spent a considerable amount of time talking up their latest driver release.