Hey Guys,
So I posted a while back with a potential graphics fix by force installing the Official Intel Drivers before Microsoft released various updates to address the graphics issues. Well I'm back again and I have some news.
A couple of days ago, Intel released some Beta drivers for Intel HD 520. This driver is up to 4326 (current ones from MS are at 4308). I have been using the beta drivers for a bit and it seems to address the random driver failures. I have been going to sites I know that cause the drivers to crash/recover and I haven't been able to get it to crash using the beta drivers (at least not yet). I've been doing these tests on Edge with HW acceleration on (from my experience, if you have the "Internet Options" of IE set to Software Acceleration instead of Hardware, Edge also adopts this setting).
The cool thing about installing these Beta/Official drivers from Intel is that they don't seem to effect the normal driver release schedule from MS. The last time there was updated drivers from MS via Windows Update, the official Intel drivers were replaced with the ones that were provided via Windows Update. So you can kind of view these Beta drivers as an "Insider Preview", as the drivers will get updated to the MS official ones once MS releases them via Windows Update.
With this in mind, we can assume that MS has a release schedule for the Intel Drivers that is slightly delayed for testing and modification purposes. I am assuming this, as Intel had released their 4300 drivers slightly before the Surface Book was released. MS did their version of the update with the firmware updates bringing it to 4308 (Intel doesn't have a 4308 Release). Considering these drivers are still under the "Beta" tag from Intel itself, we won't being official WU releases of 4326 until much later. So if you're willing to test it out now, here are the instructions again so you can bypass the OEM setup check.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/do...a-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-7-8-1-10-15-40-
1.Download the 64 bit ZIP version with the link above and extract
2.Right click the bottom left corner on your desktop and select ?Device Manager?
3.Open ?Display adapters?, right click the Intel HD 520 graphics card and hit ?Update Driver Software??
4.Select the ?Browser my computer for driver software?
5.Select ?Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer?
6.Click ?Have Disk?? and browser to the extracted Intel Driver Software, and select the INF from the Graphics folder
7.Now click ?Ok? and continue installing the driver
8. Once the driver is done installing, finish the installation by running the Intel setup.exe in the driver folder.
Let us know what the results are if you decide to take this route. I'll update you guys later on in a couple of days with any major results from my own testing. By the way, unfortunately, this still doesn't address the Maps issue with the roads disappearing yet. I also haven't had a chance to see if this helps with the Connected Standby issues. I'll check on those later.
Happy testing y'all!
So I posted a while back with a potential graphics fix by force installing the Official Intel Drivers before Microsoft released various updates to address the graphics issues. Well I'm back again and I have some news.
A couple of days ago, Intel released some Beta drivers for Intel HD 520. This driver is up to 4326 (current ones from MS are at 4308). I have been using the beta drivers for a bit and it seems to address the random driver failures. I have been going to sites I know that cause the drivers to crash/recover and I haven't been able to get it to crash using the beta drivers (at least not yet). I've been doing these tests on Edge with HW acceleration on (from my experience, if you have the "Internet Options" of IE set to Software Acceleration instead of Hardware, Edge also adopts this setting).
The cool thing about installing these Beta/Official drivers from Intel is that they don't seem to effect the normal driver release schedule from MS. The last time there was updated drivers from MS via Windows Update, the official Intel drivers were replaced with the ones that were provided via Windows Update. So you can kind of view these Beta drivers as an "Insider Preview", as the drivers will get updated to the MS official ones once MS releases them via Windows Update.
With this in mind, we can assume that MS has a release schedule for the Intel Drivers that is slightly delayed for testing and modification purposes. I am assuming this, as Intel had released their 4300 drivers slightly before the Surface Book was released. MS did their version of the update with the firmware updates bringing it to 4308 (Intel doesn't have a 4308 Release). Considering these drivers are still under the "Beta" tag from Intel itself, we won't being official WU releases of 4326 until much later. So if you're willing to test it out now, here are the instructions again so you can bypass the OEM setup check.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/do...a-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-7-8-1-10-15-40-
1.Download the 64 bit ZIP version with the link above and extract
2.Right click the bottom left corner on your desktop and select ?Device Manager?
3.Open ?Display adapters?, right click the Intel HD 520 graphics card and hit ?Update Driver Software??
4.Select the ?Browser my computer for driver software?
5.Select ?Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer?
6.Click ?Have Disk?? and browser to the extracted Intel Driver Software, and select the INF from the Graphics folder
7.Now click ?Ok? and continue installing the driver
8. Once the driver is done installing, finish the installation by running the Intel setup.exe in the driver folder.
Let us know what the results are if you decide to take this route. I'll update you guys later on in a couple of days with any major results from my own testing. By the way, unfortunately, this still doesn't address the Maps issue with the roads disappearing yet. I also haven't had a chance to see if this helps with the Connected Standby issues. I'll check on those later.
Happy testing y'all!