Microsoft just pushed a new Intel HD 520 display driver

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A new HD 520 driver just hit my Surface Book.The date is 7/6/2016 and the version number is 20.19.15.4463.

I've been flogging the machine on a 21:9 LG display for the last 20 minutes and so far I have seen only one of the 2-5 second blackouts that used to happen constantly. I haven't yet seen the jittery broken screen that made me want to throw something against a wall every time it happened, so I hope that is fixed. We'll see.

The timing of this is amazing. I had just opened the NVIDIA Control Panel and switched to the NVIDIA driver for default graphic display, and then two minutes later on a routine update I get the new Intel driver.

XXXXXXXX!!!!!!! (symbols denoting exasperation)

OK, in the middle of composing this I got the blackout again and when the image came back up it was split and jumping around again. So whatever is wrong wasn't fixed by the new driver.

 

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Here's what's new with the Intel HD update for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 | Windows Central

And there's today's article about what Intel fixed. Sadly, absolutely none of the issues I've been seeing are on that list, but I'll have to see if I still get artifacting and weirdness in Firefox on my Surface Book after I get the updated driver.