Driver for GMA X3000 (HW T&L)

[directcpp]

Hi.
please.
When Intel will be released drivers for GMA X3000 (HW T&L and vertex shader 2.0 or 3.0)?
in February?

[prashu162]

The following is the list of gaming titles that have been validated with this graphics driver for playability. Individual performance may vary depending on system configuration and game settings. Testing on additional titles or benchmarks is not recommended and is outside the scope of this release.

Battlefield* 2
Battlefield* 2142
Call of Duty* 2
Elder Scrolls* IV: Obliviion
Vanguard*: The Saga of Heroes
Rainbow Six*: Vegas
Age of Empires* 3
Final Fantasy* XI Bench 3
Unreal Tournament* 2004

They have decreased the number of games that have been validated with the pre-beta driver.

[agent_j]

prashu162:

The following is the list of gaming titles that have been validated with this graphics driver for playability. Individual performance may vary depending on system configuration and game settings. Testing on additional titles or benchmarks is not recommended and is outside the scope of this release.

Battlefield* 2
Battlefield* 2142
Call of Duty* 2
Elder Scrolls* IV: Obliviion
Vanguard*: The Saga of Heroes
Rainbow Six*: Vegas
Age of Empires* 3
Final Fantasy* XI Bench 3
Unreal Tournament* 2004

They have decreased the number of games that have been validated with the pre-beta driver.

your right, they took out Command and Conquer* 3: Tiberium Wars, Supreme Commander* and Far Cry*

[yesh1683]

prashu162:

The following is the list of gaming titles that have been validated with this graphics driver for playability. Individual performance may vary depending on system configuration and game settings. Testing on additional titles or benchmarks is not recommended and is outside the scope of this release.

Battlefield* 2
Battlefield* 2142
Call of Duty* 2
Elder Scrolls* IV: Obliviion
Vanguard*: The Saga of Heroes
Rainbow Six*: Vegas
Age of Empires* 3
Final Fantasy* XI Bench 3
Unreal Tournament* 2004

They have decreased the number of games that have been validated with the pre-beta driver.

Well Rainbow Six*: Vegas is not playable i can get in through menus settings and all but wen i start new game the loading screen comes and the pc restarts before beginning the game

Any one else tested this game?

[davidc1]

The good thing is that it probably means games that are taken off the list runs on the G965 well enough. We don't see games like Quake 3 and WoW there, but those games have no problems. From the initial tests Command and Conquer 3 and Far Cry runs well(no idea about Supreme Commander). One reviewer says 14.31 driver improves Far Cry performance by 2x at 1024x768(10 to 20 fps).

[directcpp]

New Beta Drivers for Windows Vista and XP are available : 15.6b and 14.31b (for support : HW TnL and HW Shader Model 3.0)

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Filter_Results.aspx?strOSs=All&strTypes=All&ProductID=2576〈=eng&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems

[jh-nz]

Yeah the previous beta drivers made some of my old games like bf1942 with the mod DC final crash after a while but oh well it allows me to run games like Company of Heroes Nicely and even run CNC 3 :D

[zobbi]

hi my name is zohaib
i recently bought dg965 express chipset board and install latest driver for windows vista 64 bit ulltimate i-e GMA X3000
in DXDIAG it shoes total video memory of 246 instaed of 384 mb
not even 256mb
and kindly tell me which games are supported by it and how can i increase my total VIDEO MEMORY
AS I HAVE 1 GB OF RAM

[Aaron_B_Intel]

In XP, you can get 384MB with any kind of memory. Because of performance concerns with Vista, you won't get 384MB until you hit 1.5GB of main memory or more.

[zeilel]

Is the new beta driver for vista only for 32 bit?

[henriq]

Time to resurrect this thread.

A year past the G965 motherboards started being sold... and here we are still waiting for drivers.

Apparently we were supposed to get the final drivers this August. Can someone in Intel confirm or deny this? Can someone put a date to the "later in 2007" referred in the G965 support page.

[directcpp]

Finally. New RELEASE driver (14.31.0.4859) are available for Win XP (for support HW Shader Model 3.0)

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&ProductID=2781&DwnldID=11041&strOSs=88&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Media%20Center%20Edition〈=eng

[prashu162]

Is this the final release or there is more to come?

[ssb_swe]

Please someone validate the drivers for the games like age3,halo,splintercelldoubleagent ,nfs carbon etc also the 3d mark scores please!!!!

i'm very eager to your scores

[ssb_swe]

Please someone validate the 14.31 drivers for the games like age3,halo,splintercelldoubleagent ,nfs carbon etc also the 3d mark scores please!!!!

i'm very eager to know your scores

these are t features added in this driver

Vertex Shader support targeting VS3.0 hardware vertex processing	N/A	4842
993291	Silent install Log file additional parameter as [ResponseResult] ResultCode = 0	N/A	4842
988695	No display switching to Clone on Lid open when no device is connected	NT-miniport	4842
1006123	Enabled a vertex processing selection capability to switch between hardware and software vertex processing depending on the application

[Aaron_B_Intel]

Is this the final release or there is more to come?

It is the final 14.31 release, i.e. no more beta. The drivers will continue to be revamped, though, so expect a 14.32 or .33 eventually, etc.

[ofic]

does the driver has support for HT and L... cause Everest said that HT&L is not supported. have a look at the attachment file

[prashu162]

AGP texture acceleration is still not enabled?????????

[prashu162]

is 14.31 the last driver for GMAX3000?????with 14.31 am not able to play many games properly
Test Drive Unlimited runs very very damn slow
Spiderman 3 also runs damn slow
Fifa world cup 2006 doesnt run at all
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[directcpp]

prashu162:

is 14.31 the last driver for GMAX3000?????with 14.31 am not able to play many games properly
Test Drive Unlimited runs very very damn slow
Spiderman 3 also runs damn slow
Fifa world cup 2006 doesnt run at all
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Yes "prashu162", any games crashes after ~10 minutes.

"Intel has listed programs/games that benefit more from software vertex processing than the hardware one: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-028231.htm"

Well this message kind a says that your better of NOT using hardware 'acceleration'. After a year of waiting i think that i'm gonna buy myself a real nVidia Card.

14.31 it's bad driver... (G965 it's bad product...)

[prashu162]

will there be another release of the driver i mean will there be any more improvements to be seen if i wait for some more time becaause am also thinking of buying a graphics card

[agent_j]

here are my benchmarks with the final 15.6 vista driver

3DMark2001SE
15.6 beta 4208
15.6 final 4310
15.4.3 5562
22.5% decrease in performance from 15.4.3

3dmark03
15.6 beta 1269
15.6 final 1710
15.4.3 1652
3.5% increase in performance from 15.4.3

3dmark05
15.6 beta 671 *Force software vertex shader off
15.6 final 882 *Force software vertex shader on
15.4.3 867
1.7% increase in performance from 15.4.3

3dmark06
15.6 beta 425 *Force software vertex shader off
15.6 final 493 *Force software vertex shader on
15.4.3 529
6.8% decrease in performance from 15.4.3, specifically because of decrease in performance of HDR/SM3.0 Canyon Flight game test

so there seems to be a huge decrease in DX8 games with the new 15.6 drivers, can anyone bench with some real world DX8 games to confirm?