Intel Readying DirectX 10 IGP Driver

[HardOCP News]

DigiTimes, citing anonymous sources, says that Intel is planning a Direct X 10 driver for its IGP chipsets around the end of April.

The driver will be labeled version 15.9 and in addition to the upcoming G45 and GM45 IGP chipsets, the desktop PC G35 chipset and notebook GM965 and GL960 chipsets will all be able to support the technology through the driver, however desktop G965 chipset, which was claimed to be hardware ready for DirectX 10, will be left out in this version of driver, added the sources.

 

[pxc]

Hooray. I have a GM965/GL960 based laptop. DX10 Crysis, here I come!

 

[Love-Man]

3D graphics driver for Intel integrated chipsets...

If that's not an april fools joke, then I dunno what is.

 

[AtkinS]

HAHAHA, with the new drivers you guys can play with 10 times better fps and Crysis with dX10.

well, its 1st april today, anyway, WHO gives a damn about DX10 on a IGP.

To be honest, i rather wanna play old games from the last century to work rather than get more bugs to the list.

i got one intel IGP laptop, and NEVER again any intel graphics!
Even though the support of DX10 present, there is just no performance to back it up with.

 

[mpsmith]

I read this and thought it had to be April Fools... Who wants to even try to play DX10 games on integrated graphics? Gross.

 

[TheBluePill]

Actually, this is old news from a couple of months ago, the G45 onboard graphics are supposed to support DX10 and offer a 700% increase over the previous generation... Which means that an onboard Intel Graphics Chip can now compete handily with an 8400gs...

 

[Love-Man]

Actually, this is old news from a couple of months ago, the G45 onboard graphics are supposed to support DX10 and offer a 700% increase over the previous generation... Which means that an onboard Intel Graphics Chip can now compete handily with an 8400gs...

I'll believe it when I see it

 

[Exavior]

Just want I always wanted, to share 1GB of system ram with my onboard video card to be able to play Crisis.

 

[TheBluePill]

Well.. When 80% of your user base is using IGP, a large increase in performance enought to at least play a title at lowest settings a huge improvement.

 

[ZenOps]

I hope its not an april fools joke. Mobile users rejoice, it will work with the GM965 (X3100) chipset.

Driver development for the X3100 has been slow as molasses, it took forever for them to turn on the Hardware T&L (even though it still has quite a few bugs)

The last revision had a higher quality DVD despeckler, which is very noticable visual improvement on older drivers.

Intel should really spend some more money for some solid software driver developers.