Intel driver support for Windows10

[WEarl]

I was overjoyed with the performance of my 5 year old Sandy Bridge processor, It's playing even the most intense games (Star Citizen) coupled with an Nvidia 680, thanks to Windows10. I saw roughly a 30% increase in performance, and for the first time, I had seen 4k graphics in the same game getting 30fps, also 80fps on 1080p. Sometime after 5 August, an "update" broke my HD3000 drivers, and now I have trouble running even moderately active games.

Intel Driver Download 2.2 is futile; uninstalling, loading old drivers, also no luck. Before I installed Windows10, the scan said I was good to go. I guess that's not the case. Intel says they will not support windows 10 on the Sandy Bridge, because it is too old. This chip still clocks better than all but the newest Skylake.

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-034343.htm http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-034343.htm

This sleight of hand is absurd. The consumer is left holding their tech, while Intel and MS are pointing the finger at each other. Intel has been known to use planned obsolescence, but this chip is still going very strong. To make matters worse, configuring Windows to NOT update a driver has confounded me, despite searching forums and google. LGP.exe, control panel settings, and regedit all fail. The worst case is regedit, which has an option to load into the old control panel "windows update"(which allowed choosing updates) but that key is locked, and admin can't even access it.

Has anyone found 3rd party drivers, beta drivers, or at least an article saying Intel will in fact make good on their promise to support the Sandy Bridge on windows10? Intel 15.28.24.64.429 current install. I've tried drivers I had saved all the way back to 2010.

[RLing4 · Accepted solution]

I agree. This hardware is still not old enough to lose support in Windows 10.

[NPiri]

Truly disappointing for Intel to not release any Windows 10 compatible drivers for Sandy Bridge or 2nd generation HD2000 & HD3000 hardware.

Not much of a problem for desktop based sandy bridge intel hd graphics (which I use on my family's Dell Inspiron 620 desktop PC that has Intel HD Graphics 2000 - I could try using the v9.17.10.4229 driver from http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=9.17.10.4229 MS Update Catalog on Win10, NOT from Intel) but laptop users may have some problems.

I guess it's "planned obsolescence" as someone said https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3exeio/windows_10_and_sandy_bridgeintel_hd_3000/ here.

[Allan_J_Intel1]

The Intel® HD Graphics 3000 does not provide driver support for Windows 10.

The list of supported operating system was linked on the fist post:

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-034343.htm Graphics Drivers — Supported Operating Systems

Allan.

[WEarl]

Obviously, that's what I mentioned before; you even linked the exact resource I already did. My point was that an "update" broke my system, which worked wonderfully before said "update." I'm not talking about windows said it was working, I mean I ran it through the test of the most intense games I know, and it came away unscathed. Don't tell me it cant work; It already was working fine.

[NPiri]

the options to configure Windows 10 to not Auto-update are either missing or crippled by Microsoft (and I don't think MS will implement this anytime soon), which is why I'm very reluctant in upgrading to Win10.

And the "old" Windows Update control panel you were talking about doesn't work on Win10 (MS pretty much broke it). Though those using Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise have a choice of delaying the updates for a limited period of time.

try installing a September 2015 Cumulative update for Windows 10 - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3095020 KB3095020. it may fix the problems that the Win10 August 2015 update broke. at least Microsoft is trying to fix the problem on their end and it looks like Intel isn't currently fixing the problem on theirs.

Personally, I'll hold off in upgrading to Windows 10 until either the end of 2015 or early 2016.

Edit: You may also want to post your comments on your experience with the current /thread/61432 Intel HD Graphics drivers and Win10 here.