Legacy Intel® Graphics Driver for Windows® 10

Highlights

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• Windows® 10 October 2018 Update Launch Driver
• HDR for Embedded Laptop Panels Launch Driver

Loaded with many visual enhancements, this WDDM 2.5 Windows® 10 October 2018 Update driver introduces brilliant HDR10 on internal displays, enabling full quality HDR10 for video streaming, games, and content creation on both external and laptop displays.

Support for Wide Color Gamut has been added for capable displays as well as improvements in EDR quality. This driver also introduces support for the DirectX* 12 Shader Model 6.3 Compiler and improves hot plug audio synchronization between the Graphics and Audio drivers.

This driver also introduces performance improvements for Microsoft WinML*-based applications on 7th Generation Intel® Core™ processors and higher, by including an initial set of DirectML MetaCommands on supported platforms. These driver optimizations bring a substantial speedup to machine learning and AI-enabled applications that require certain types of convolution or matrix multiply operations.

This driver brings power optimizations to your system to improve battery life, including when the display is in standby. This driver also has performance improvements for Pro Evolution Soccer* 2019 (DirectX* 11 version) on 6th Generation Intel® Core™ processors or higher.

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Install the Intel® Driver & Support Assistant (previously called Intel® Driver Update Utility), which now automatically checks for drivers on a regular basis and can provide notifications when new drivers are available.

Notes

• EXE: Self-installing format (.exe) is the easiest installation method and our recommendation.
• ZIP: Manual installation format (.zip) is intended for developers and IT professionals.

Read the Release Notes for full details of this release.

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