3rd party intel GMA drivers improve video performance

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...what is the point of this? Another 3 fps at solitaire? You get integrated graphics because you either: your needs don't need more than integrated graphics; you can't afford any better laptop.

 

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latest version. apparently you can play games like l4d and portal as there mas mention of fixing glitches in said games.

also some people don't have money and get stuck with cruddy laptops.

most places that sell them don't even say what kind of video chipset laptops have.

 

Good Lord...the first glitches that they should be fixing are attitude-related...not to mention vocabulary...

 

Let me put it another way, you install "3rd" party drivers, it BSOD the system causing OS corruption and eventual loss of all data on the drive, worth the 3 frames per second? Thought so.

If you have no money; save up for a laptop that can suit your needs. Don't try to potentially ruin your system by installing 3rd party drivers to get a .000000001% FPS gain.

 

Unless i missed a bit about them being super unstable or only increasing 3 FPS that's seems a bit prejudgment. Before i swapped for an nvidia board my M1330 did JUST okay with games JUST smooth enough to play but, still enough lag to be notable.

I've seen GMA booster and heard plenty of good things about it so seeing an improved driver doesn't surprise me. sure the hardware is weak but, so are the drivers not until recently has Intel started cleaning up and optimizing their drivers.

Also "* More performance on newest games (5-10fps).-"

Basically why are you hating?

 

This is good. My old gma laptop sucked so bad and couldnt even play older games. With this I could. I have a gma 4500 in my current laptop and will try this so that i dont have to use the dedicated card to play older games.

 

The newer HD 4400 and 4600 GPU's are very capable. With XTU in most machines you can overclock the IGP, and check out some YouTube videos of Battlefield 4 using HD 4600. Pretty impressive 30-35FPS at low settings at 720p. Gives a poor man a chance to play some recent games. Heck not even a poor man, allows thin and light machines the ability to play games on occasion.

That being said, based on the attitude of the author of those drivers, I'd steer clear unless you really know what you're doing. And make a system image before you install the drivers in case you have to revert back to that.

 

BSOD... OS corruption... Eventual loss of all data on the drive?!!!! Either the driver contains format c:...x: strings or somebody is telling utter bs.

 

I've never had GMA4500 have performance issues to a point, you aren't going to play the latest and greatest. I've played older Windows 95 games on GMA4500, I even ran Day of Defeat Source and Team Fortress 2 at 1368x768 with no issue. I am referring to all the threads with people asking if their crappy Intel GMA can play Crysis and BF4. Integrated graphics has a limit, you can't expect a driver install to magically turn your crappy integrated graphics into a gaming powerhouse. It's akin to slapping a small turbo on your Hyundai and hoping for BMW M3 performance.

I've seen aftermarket drivers cause blue screens, enough blue screens can cause OS corruption. But then again I fix computers for a living, so let's throw out 10+ years of experience in the IT field out the window.

 

Tsunade_Hime,
If it wasn't clear, I called bs only the eventual loss of all data on the drive due to 3rd party video drivers part.

 

No I wasn't saying that if you read my post. Heck I've seen stable WHQL drivers cause BSOD, not to mention what someone writes on their own free time.

 

If it isn't useful for you, fine. But that doesn't mean there is no point to it, it won't improve anything, it will cause your computer to crash and it will corrupt your hard drve.

 

Seriously, what's with all the hate for 3rd party drivers? You guys never used Omega modded drivers back in the day? That stuff was just as stable (sometimes more so) as the official ones released by Nvidia and ATi and offered tangible performance increases for little to no reduction in image quality, along with a plethora of low-level customization and tweaking options that were simply unavailable in official releases. And what about RivaTuner and ATi Tray Tools? Best GPU tweaking programs EVER. So sad that they died.

And what about the current Leshcat unofficial Catalyst drivers for AMD Switchable Graphics laptops? He does a masterful job with those and I've got many friends who wouldn't be able to use their HP's, Lenovo's, Dell's, etc. problem-free or play modern games if it wasn't for Leshcat since you can't use AMD drivers from the website for those systems, only OEM-provided ones, and the OEM's never update their drivers.

That is a common misconception. WHQL drivers are no more stable than beta ones, it just means that they've been submitted to M$ for certification. The WHQL designation is nothing more than a name slapped on because M$ requires it for any drivers released for Windows. In terms of improvements and bug fixes oftentimes WHQL drivers lag behind the newest beta builds (especially true on the AMD side) since the approval process from M$ takes so long.

 

RoyalBNA user on one of my family's laptop, it's a suprisingly stable driver that gives a decent boost in FPS to the GMA 4500 series.

 

I'm not talking about the latest and greatest games just indie games like minecraft that require some 3d power but, not much. or old games like GTA 3 and GTA VC which also lag sometimes but, are otherwise smooth.

Also i had a GMA965... i think i know it was crestline and was really an X3100 or X3000 but the actual name it report was one of the models covered under the BNA drivers.

I use the unified drivers for my Asus Xonar D1 with my old computer it would bsod with stock drives, when i built a new machine i have since used the unified 3rd party drives and it's totally stable now. I think it may enable an extra feature or 2. In fact on OCN when any ask for help with a Xonar that's the first reply "are you using unified drivers?" because they are so much better and more stable than the crap Asus pumps out on the included CD or on their site.



EDIT: i'll have to try this out on my grandparent's PC. it could maybe use a small perf bump on the intel GFX if i didn't use 64 win 7.