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SUMMARY:

- Maintenance driver release with miscellaneous bug fixes.
- On the new socketed Desktop LGA product with Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200, expect to see up to 2X better graphics performance, up to 35% Faster Video Conversion, and up to 20% Compute Performance. (Intel Core i7-5775C with Intel Iris Pro graphics 6200 compared to 65W Intel Core i7-4790S with Intel HD graphics 4600)
- On the mobile Core i7 Processor with Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200, expect to see up to 20% better graphics performance, up to 35% Faster Video Conversion, and up to 20% Compute Performance. (Intel Core i7-5950HQ with Intel Iris Pro graphics 6200 compared to Intel Core i7-4950HQ with Intel Iris Pro graphics 5200)
- Intel’s fastest and most responsive mobile processors have Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200.

Supports Intel Iris graphics, Intel Iris Pro graphics and Intel HD graphics on:

- 5th Generation Intel Core Processors with Intel HD graphics, Intel Iris graphics, Intel Iris Pro graphics and select Pentium/ Celeron Processors with Intel HD graphics for Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Windows 7 operating systems.
- Intel Core M with Intel HD graphics 5300 for Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Windows 7 operating systems.
- 4th Generation Intel Core Processors with Intel HD graphics, Intel Iris graphics and Intel Iris Pro graphics and select Pentium/ Celeron Processors with Intel HD graphics for Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Windows 7 operating systems.

Versions:

- Intel Graphics Driver: 10.18.14.4264
- Intel Display Audio Driver: 6.16.0.3174

KEY ISSUES FIXED:

- Black screen seen when resuming from S4 with certain displays
- Error seen during AVC encode in certain circumstances
- Vsync not aligning to 60 fps when running some demo apps
- Corruption seen while playing Metin2 game
- Green screen seen in playback window when attempting to play video using media player

NEW FEATURES:

New driver support for the newly launched H-series, R-series, and S-series 5th Generation Intel Core processors.

Display Scaling Option is Now “Sticky” User Preference
- Scaling support in control panel has been changed to improve user experience.
- Previously, the set of scaling options available to the user was tied to the currently selected resolution and any change to the resolution caused the user selected scaling option to be lost.
- In the new implementation, the user selected scaling option is orthogonal to the current resolution and expresses the user’s preference/intent for scaling behavior, regardless of the current resolution.
- The driver will remember this scaling preference and apply it for future display mode sets performed either in the graphics control panel OR via OS control panel.

Forced Application Scaling
- The control panel also offers a new “forced application scaling” option where the user selected scaling option above for desktop will also be applied for full screen applications (generally games or media players), overriding whatever scaling mode the application and/or DirectX runtime/Operating System specify.
- This is intended to allow users to force “Stretch Full Screen” or “Maintain Aspect Ratio” scaling to address problems reported by users with games running in “Centered” scaling mode - particularly DirectX10 and 11 games and/or on Windows 8/8.1.
- Centered mode gives a bad user experience when running games as significantly lower than native resolution (e.g. to improve frame rate) on displays with very high resolutions
- This option is not enabled by default because it technically means that the graphics driver is not honoring operating system requests for mode sets and would cause WHCK test failures during driver certification.
- However, Intel strongly recommends users set this option when playing games at non-native resolutions, especially on Windows 8/8.1, especially for DirectX10/11 games.

Dedicated Memory Reporting
- The graphics driver now reports some amount of fictitious “dedicated” graphics memory to the operating system (128MB by default) to work around applications issues in a number of games.
- These games incorrectly look for some amount of “dedicated” graphics memory because they weren’t coded with the unified memory architecture for processor graphics.
- The amount reported can be modified or disabled if desired by changing the following registry value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Intel\GMM, create a REG_DWORD value named “DedicatedSegmentSize