Intel releases new iris / hd graphics drivers 15.36.7.3960

The giant Intel has released its new Iris / HD Graphics 15.36.7.3960 graphics drivers that come with many bug fixes and regression issues in graphics performance in some games in addition to higher overall performance.

Among the main bug fixes we can mention:

• As of now Anisotropic Filtering can be forced into DirectX 9/10/11 games correctly from the control panel. Outlook no longer causes screen corruption when used for more than an hour. Screen corruptions removed using Photoshop. Minecraft No longer causes crashes in the system. Fixed screen corruptions in Dragon Age: Inquisition, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Simcity, DOTA 2 games and in the Dolphin Emulator. The system no longer hangs in Solidworks 2014, Maya 2014 and Specviewperf 11: Solution to intermittent crashes when using a DisplayPort monitor as a secondary screen and close the notebook lid or enter the sleep mode. Higher response speed when switching between different resolutions. Solution to regressions to graphic performance in the Dirt 3 game..

Among the main improvements we have:

• Increased video playback performance Smoothed CMAA (Conservative Morphological Anti-Aliasing) now also available under OpenGL Up to 10% higher graphics performance in various games Up to 30% higher overall computing performance in OpenCL applications Extension cl_intel_simultaneous_sharing extension (share memory buffers (OpenCL / OpenGL / DirectX) used in applications like Photoshop CC. Support for 8th generation Intel Iris / HD Graphics GPUs "Broadwell Graphics".

The new drivers are compatible with Intel Haswell Graphics and Broadwell Graphics GPUs, they can be downloaded from the following links for windows 7 and 8 / 8.1:

32 bit

64 bit

Source: CHW