HD510 igdkmd64.sys crashes - stable driver?

[DHofm]

My system was stable since October last year. Yesterday, for some weird reason, I decided to update the driver while generally updating Windows. It's just what I usually do with all hardware and machines every couple of months.

But I forgot that Intel drivers are apparently ridiculously unstable (nothing has crashed my machines more regularly). My machine has crashed 3 times since that update yesterday.

Unfortunately, I don't know which driver version I was running before - I don't have the old driver install file and no System Restore Point.

Does Windows maybe log driver versions somewhere?

If not - is there a specific driver version that's supposed to be particularly stable?

[Stefan3D · Accepted solution]

Windows stores copies of old drivers at

c:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_*\

These drivers are listed including date stamp if you select update driver in device manager.

Otherwise goto https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/88351/Intel-HD-Graphics-510 Downloads for Intel® HD Graphics 510

Hit show more and check the date stamps there.

[DHofm]

Huh... that's odd... in that list, I only have:

20.19.15.4474

20.19.15.4501

21.20.16.4860

But Windows Update says it installed this one two days ago:

21.20.16.4565

Anyway... I'll try out the two 20.19.15.XXXX versions and hope that one of the two is the one that was stable.

Thank you very much already!