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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
During a forum discussion elsewhere about video performance a puzzle has
arisen. A friend has a brand new i5-6600K, Win 10, with Intel's own HD 530 Graphics, at driver version 21.20.16.4590. My i7-6700K, Win 10 (bought April 2016), also with 530 graphics, has version 20.19.15.4474 dated June 2016. Using 'Update Drivers' from Device Manager, after the search I get told I already have the latest drivers. Can anyone explain the apparent contradiction please? Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
On 6/03/2017 11:32 PM, Terry Pinnell wrote:
... 530 Graphics, at driver version 21.20.16.4590. ... version 20.19.15.4474 dated June 2016. Using 'Update Drivers' from Device Manager, after the search I get told I already have the latest drivers. Can anyone explain the apparent contradiction please? If you don't have need to use the latest and greatest, don't be bothered by the version numbers. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
On 6/03/2017 11:32 PM, Terry Pinnell wrote:
During a forum discussion elsewhere about video performance a puzzle has arisen. A friend has a brand new i5-6600K, Win 10, with Intel's own HD 530 Graphics, at driver version 21.20.16.4590. My i7-6700K, Win 10 (bought April 2016), also with 530 graphics, has version 20.19.15.4474 dated June 2016. BTW, don't be obsessive. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
Terry Pinnell wrote:
During a forum discussion elsewhere about video performance a puzzle has arisen. A friend has a brand new i5-6600K, Win 10, with Intel's own HD 530 Graphics, at driver version 21.20.16.4590. My i7-6700K, Win 10 (bought April 2016), also with 530 graphics, has version 20.19.15.4474 dated June 2016. Using 'Update Drivers' from Device Manager, after the search I get told I already have the latest drivers. Can anyone explain the apparent contradiction please? Terry, East Grinstead, UK How many sources are there for drivers ? 1) Windows Update (if hardware updates are turned on). 2) Dell, if machine is a Dell, and perhaps the Dell has its own update checker. 3) Intel - downloadcenter.intel.com . ("Intel HD Graphics 530") They may have an updater available on there , but it could well be more trouble than it is worth. Just manually search using the hardware name instead. Ultimately, all the drivers come from Intel, for their specific GPU designs. As for the numbering schemes, manufacturers have "streams" of drivers. They can number the drivers differently for "OEM" versus "Retail" for example. It's not often that a hardware manufacturer will describe the numbering scheme, so you kinda have to guess at the significance of each numeric field. Intel plays a further game with its RST or RAID drivers, with "artificial restrictions" on feature set for desktop versus workstation or server "chipset SKU". You may read in a thread, about a particular driver, only to discover your chipset is the "wrong SKU family to have fun". And so on. That's Intel for you. "Caution - Marketing weasels at work" Paul |
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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
Paul wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote: During a forum discussion elsewhere about video performance a puzzle has arisen. A friend has a brand new i5-6600K, Win 10, with Intel's own HD 530 Graphics, at driver version 21.20.16.4590. My i7-6700K, Win 10 (bought April 2016), also with 530 graphics, has version 20.19.15.4474 dated June 2016. Using 'Update Drivers' from Device Manager, after the search I get told I already have the latest drivers. Can anyone explain the apparent contradiction please? Terry, East Grinstead, UK OK, you can get that one from Windows Update. So maybe your driver setting is blocking that right now. You can download this and install manually if you want. No problem. With the .msu file, just double-click. http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....=21.20.16.4590 Intel Corporation - Display - 1/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - 21.20.16.4590 Windows 10 and later drivers 159.9MB HTH, Paul |
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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
Paul wrote:
Paul wrote: Terry Pinnell wrote: During a forum discussion elsewhere about video performance a puzzle has arisen. A friend has a brand new i5-6600K, Win 10, with Intel's own HD 530 Graphics, at driver version 21.20.16.4590. My i7-6700K, Win 10 (bought April 2016), also with 530 graphics, has version 20.19.15.4474 dated June 2016. Using 'Update Drivers' from Device Manager, after the search I get told I already have the latest drivers. Can anyone explain the apparent contradiction please? Terry, East Grinstead, UK OK, you can get that one from Windows Update. So maybe your driver setting is blocking that right now. You can download this and install manually if you want. No problem. With the .msu file, just double-click. http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....=21.20.16.4590 Intel Corporation - Display - 1/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - 21.20.16.4590 Windows 10 and later drivers 159.9MB HTH, Paul Thanks Paul. I was just coming back to add the following: So meanwhile I used the Intel Graphics Update Utility which I found here http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...rt/detect.html That indicated there *were* two more recent versions: I installed the latest, shown in that utility as '15.45.14.4590' In Device Manager it's '21.20.16.4590', dated 18th January 2017. Which matches my friend's. Slightly puzzled about '16' v '14'? And still unsure why Win 10 said my driver was up to date when in fact it was two versions old? Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
Terry Pinnell wrote:
Paul wrote: Paul wrote: Terry Pinnell wrote: During a forum discussion elsewhere about video performance a puzzle has arisen. A friend has a brand new i5-6600K, Win 10, with Intel's own HD 530 Graphics, at driver version 21.20.16.4590. My i7-6700K, Win 10 (bought April 2016), also with 530 graphics, has version 20.19.15.4474 dated June 2016. Using 'Update Drivers' from Device Manager, after the search I get told I already have the latest drivers. Can anyone explain the apparent contradiction please? Terry, East Grinstead, UK OK, you can get that one from Windows Update. So maybe your driver setting is blocking that right now. You can download this and install manually if you want. No problem. With the .msu file, just double-click. http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....=21.20.16.4590 Intel Corporation - Display - 1/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - 21.20.16.4590 Windows 10 and later drivers 159.9MB HTH, Paul Thanks Paul. I was just coming back to add the following: So meanwhile I used the Intel Graphics Update Utility which I found here http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...rt/detect.html That indicated there *were* two more recent versions: I installed the latest, shown in that utility as '15.45.14.4590' In Device Manager it's '21.20.16.4590', dated 18th January 2017. Which matches my friend's. Slightly puzzled about '16' v '14'? And still unsure why Win 10 said my driver was up to date when in fact it was two versions old? Terry, East Grinstead, UK The further away you get from Intel, the longer the test interval. The Microsoft version should be behind a version or two, as proof it was being "tested" (or something). As for the numbering... the image is missing, of their "example". http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...000005654.html I used archive.org to identify where I could find their example image. http://www.intel.com/content/dam/sup...img/schema.jpg 21.20.16.4590 OS DX ?? Build The first two fields, no longer align with the content of the first link. The "16" might be the year of publication. But who knows. Intel doesn't want to actually identify that one. And the last one is a build number. Numerical roulette. Paul |
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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
Paul wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote: Paul wrote: Paul wrote: Terry Pinnell wrote: During a forum discussion elsewhere about video performance a puzzle has arisen. A friend has a brand new i5-6600K, Win 10, with Intel's own HD 530 Graphics, at driver version 21.20.16.4590. My i7-6700K, Win 10 (bought April 2016), also with 530 graphics, has version 20.19.15.4474 dated June 2016. Using 'Update Drivers' from Device Manager, after the search I get told I already have the latest drivers. Can anyone explain the apparent contradiction please? Terry, East Grinstead, UK OK, you can get that one from Windows Update. So maybe your driver setting is blocking that right now. You can download this and install manually if you want. No problem. With the .msu file, just double-click. http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....=21.20.16.4590 Intel Corporation - Display - 1/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - 21.20.16.4590 Windows 10 and later drivers 159.9MB HTH, Paul Thanks Paul. I was just coming back to add the following: So meanwhile I used the Intel Graphics Update Utility which I found here http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...rt/detect.html That indicated there *were* two more recent versions: I installed the latest, shown in that utility as '15.45.14.4590' In Device Manager it's '21.20.16.4590', dated 18th January 2017. Which matches my friend's. Slightly puzzled about '16' v '14'? And still unsure why Win 10 said my driver was up to date when in fact it was two versions old? Terry, East Grinstead, UK The further away you get from Intel, the longer the test interval. The Microsoft version should be behind a version or two, as proof it was being "tested" (or something). As for the numbering... the image is missing, of their "example". http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...000005654.html I used archive.org to identify where I could find their example image. http://www.intel.com/content/dam/sup...img/schema.jpg 21.20.16.4590 OS DX ?? Build The first two fields, no longer align with the content of the first link. The "16" might be the year of publication. But who knows. Intel doesn't want to actually identify that one. And the last one is a build number. Numerical roulette. Paul Many thanks Paul. Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
On 06/03/2017 16:18, Terry Pinnell wrote:
And still unsure why Win 10 said my driver was up to date when in fact it was two versions old? A very small proportion of Windows drivers are ever distributed via Windows Update. Even then it's likely that not ever version will be on Windows Update. Also Microsoft sometimes takes features out before distributing them. IF you like to always have the very latest drivers for all your hardware you'd better get the drivers direct from the hardware manufacturer. Sometime Windows Updates even gets it wrong and offers a driver that isn't suitable and will cause problems. Also sometimes a particular computer made by, say, ABC that includes a part made by, say, XYZ won't work right with drivers obtained directly from XYZ, instead you need a modified driver you can only get from ABC. -- Brian Gregory (in the UK). To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address. |
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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
Terry Pinnell wrote:
During a forum discussion elsewhere about video performance a puzzle has arisen. A friend has a brand new i5-6600K, Win 10, with Intel's own HD 530 Graphics, at driver version 21.20.16.4590. My i7-6700K, Win 10 (bought April 2016), also with 530 graphics, has version 20.19.15.4474 dated June 2016. While you two have different Intel processors (i5 for friend, i7 for you), both have Intel HD Graphics 530. It's likely that you don't just get a video driver but instead a chipset driver package that bundles in the video driver. You see the version assigned to the entire chipset driver package, not the versions of everything bundled within that package. Also, you never identified which chipset you and your friend have (B150, B250, H110, H170, H270, Q170, Q270, Z170, Z270) nor which mobo you and your friend have (brand and model) which can differ in ancilliary logic to the chipset. You could go the mobo maker's web site and check what is latest for what the brand and model of mobo that you have. Is something "broke" that you think a new version of the video driver will fix? New code = new bugs + changed behavior. Newer doesn't mean better, just different. Example: I had to revert to an old driver for my AMD video card because the latest version removed access to a quick and easy way to reset the colors (back to those configured by the driver). When a video game crashed, and because it had different gamma and other video settings, that's what I got stuck with until I went into the config software and reset colors. The new driver doesn't have that option. Went back to the prior version. Example: I updated to the latest video version but a video game had artifacts (pixelation, hesitation, odd texturing). Not only was the newest video version not good for that game, several of the new versions weren't good. I had to keep walking back through video drivers until I found the latest one that still worked well with the old video game. (This was back in Windows 7, not Windows 10.) Because newer video drivers add support for newer games usually means they dumped or altered code for compatibility fixes for old games (which were new back then and had video driver fixes for those). Very rarely does a new video version significantly increase performance (by what measure you haven't identified) but rather addresses bugs, add/delete or modify features, or add compatibility with new games (often at the expense of old games). Sometimes the only change is in the ancilliary software (what you use to configure the video settings - which was my case in my above first example). I went to https://downloadcenter.intel.com/ and entered "HD 530" (the integrated video controller in your i7-6700). That took me to: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/pro...D-Graphics-530 Notice that the version of the video driver does match on the package driver version (and which the OEM vendor might've adapted); however, noticed the datestamps (very recent). So I simply picked the latest version listed there. Clicked on it and you can see the What's New section in the description. All that says is some vague mention of game optimization. Yeah, like I said, often driver updates are to add compability with new games (at the expense of old games). There is link to a release history document that you can read. I went back a version and there was a significant change: support for Vulkan; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API). That doesn't mean that the video card or that driver afforded any great or even significant performance boost, only that it added support for the Vulkan API that some games want to use. |
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Is my Intel graphics driver up to date?
VanguardLH wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote: During a forum discussion elsewhere about video performance a puzzle has arisen. A friend has a brand new i5-6600K, Win 10, with Intel's own HD 530 Graphics, at driver version 21.20.16.4590. My i7-6700K, Win 10 (bought April 2016), also with 530 graphics, has version 20.19.15.4474 dated June 2016. While you two have different Intel processors (i5 for friend, i7 for you), both have Intel HD Graphics 530. It's likely that you don't just get a video driver but instead a chipset driver package that bundles in the video driver. You see the version assigned to the entire chipset driver package, not the versions of everything bundled within that package. Also, you never identified which chipset you and your friend have (B150, B250, H110, H170, H270, Q170, Q270, Z170, Z270) nor which mobo you and your friend have (brand and model) which can differ in ancilliary logic to the chipset. You could go the mobo maker's web site and check what is latest for what the brand and model of mobo that you have. Is something "broke" that you think a new version of the video driver will fix? Yes, although past tense applies now. The updated driver has unfortunately *not fixed it. For me or another friend on the same forum with an almost identical PC as mine and the same video problem. (With the way our NLE, Magix Movie Edit Pro Premium, handles the HDR effect, if you're curious.) Even though the i5 user does not have the problem. So we're still looking, although I'd have thought the chipset driver low on the list of possible causes? New code = new bugs + changed behavior. Newer doesn't mean better, just different. Example: I had to revert to an old driver for my AMD video card because the latest version removed access to a quick and easy way to reset the colors (back to those configured by the driver). When a video game crashed, and because it had different gamma and other video settings, that's what I got stuck with until I went into the config software and reset colors. The new driver doesn't have that option. Went back to the prior version. Example: I updated to the latest video version but a video game had artifacts (pixelation, hesitation, odd texturing). Not only was the newest video version not good for that game, several of the new versions weren't good. I had to keep walking back through video drivers until I found the latest one that still worked well with the old video game. (This was back in Windows 7, not Windows 10.) Because newer video drivers add support for newer games usually means they dumped or altered code for compatibility fixes for old games (which were new back then and had video driver fixes for those). Very rarely does a new video version significantly increase performance (by what measure you haven't identified) but rather addresses bugs, add/delete or modify features, or add compatibility with new games (often at the expense of old games). Sometimes the only change is in the ancilliary software (what you use to configure the video settings - which was my case in my above first example). I went to https://downloadcenter.intel.com/ and entered "HD 530" (the integrated video controller in your i7-6700). That took me to: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/pro...D-Graphics-530 Notice that the version of the video driver does match on the package driver version (and which the OEM vendor might've adapted); however, noticed the datestamps (very recent). So I simply picked the latest version listed there. Clicked on it and you can see the What's New section in the description. All that says is some vague mention of game optimization. Yeah, like I said, often driver updates are to add compability with new games (at the expense of old games). There is link to a release history document that you can read. I went back a version and there was a significant change: support for Vulkan; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API). That doesn't mean that the video card or that driver afforded any great or even significant performance boost, only that it added support for the Vulkan API that some games want to use. Did you read my post yesterday reporting that I had installed the latest driver? Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Terry Pinnell wrote:
Yes, although past tense applies now. The updated driver has unfortunately *not fixed it. For me or another friend on the same forum with an almost identical PC as mine and the same video problem. (With the way our NLE, Magix Movie Edit Pro Premium, handles the HDR effect, if you're curious.) Even though the i5 user does not have the problem. So we're still looking, although I'd have thought the chipset driver low on the list of possible causes? There is an article here, which casually mentions that HDR is supported on Kaby Lake. http://www.digitaltrends.com/computi...by-lake-s-hdr/ "The latest rumor surrounding Intels upcoming processors based on the Kaby Lake-S architecture is that the integrated graphics will support High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging" What you could investigate, is whether Magix has a preference to turn off HDR rendering on the screen. So that any emulated effect could be eliminated. Paul |
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Terry Pinnell wrote:
Yes, although past tense applies now. The updated driver has unfortunately *not fixed it. For me or another friend on the same forum with an almost identical PC as mine and the same video problem. (With the way our NLE, Magix Movie Edit Pro Premium, handles the HDR effect, if you're curious.) Even though the i5 user does not have the problem. So we're still looking, although I'd have thought the chipset driver low on the list of possible causes? ... Did you read my post yesterday reporting that I had installed the latest driver? Twas in another subthread, missed it, sorry. Although both you and your friend are using Windows 10, are you both using the 64-bit version of Windows 10? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1777473,00.asp "... a native 64-bit video-editing program" http://www.magix.com/us/movie-edit-pro/premium/ "You require a 64-bit version of one the following operating systems: Windows 10, 8, 7" You'd expect a 64-bit only program's installer to NOT allow its install on a 32-bit version of Windows. As to your original topic, you now probably have the latest available driver. No, it may not be listed by Intel using the same version as for the package of driver files. For example, the video package version shown my AMD Catalyst and Device Manager is 15.20.1062.1004. However, looking at the versions of the actual driver files show varying versions (aka file versions, not package versions) only some of which match on the package version. So it depends on which version you are looking at: the package version (fileset) or the file version(s). https://www.extremetech.com/computin...should-you-buy "The Core i7 features quad-cores with Hyper-Threading enabled and Intels HD Graphics 530 solution. The Core i5 family offers quad-cores without Hyper-Threading, and either HD Graphics 530 or 510 GPUs." So the difference is whether or not there is hyperthreading and which video controller is included on the chip. I had assumed you (i7) and your buddy (i5) had the same video driver. Maybe not if he has an i5 with the HD 510 video controller. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2422874,00.asp If hyperthreading is the differentiating factor then maybe you disabling it for your i7 might show if the Magix program then works okay. Maybe Magix doesn't know how to handle virtual cores. Users have complained that enabling hyperthreading results in BSODs or unstable systems (probably due to a defective CPU) or even decreased performance for multi-threaded processes (e.g., [M]SQL) when compared with hyperthreading off. There can be racing problems or deadlocks in code with hyperthreading (not a defect of the processor but in the code, like not handling race conditions between threads). Thread stalling is another problem with hyperthreading. I've seen some forum posts where users complained that Magix did not use all cores in the multi-core processor and also did not use hyperthreading. To me, hyperthreading is like GPU acceleration in web browsers: sometimes helps but if not then disable it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading. Some users report that stutter disappears after disabling hyperthreading: https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comment...utter_problem/ Maybe disabling the i7's extra features so it has only those in the i5 will get Magix to operate properly. https://software.intel.com/en-us/art...n-application/ "Hyper-Threading Technology cannot have performance expectations equivalent to that of multi-processing where all the processor resources are replicated." So reports from users that performance was worse with hyperthreading enabled is even supported in Intel's description. Simulated hardware isn't as fast as real hardware. If it's a driver issue, you might have to test prior versions of the driver for your CPU (i7) to see if one works. As I mentioned, the latest driver is not necessarily the best one. For some programs (games), I had to find the latest prior driver that still worked with them. The latest video driver wasn't the best one and sometimes the worst one. Just to be sure, are you you (i7) and your friend (i5) using the HD graphics controller within the CPU? Or might your friend have a video card? The embedded Intel video graphics is particularly strong in the graphics arena. Performance of CPU-embedded graphics is very low. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gp...u=Intel+HD+530 https://www.futuremark.com/hardware/...ics+530/review For graphics editing, I would think you would want something better than what is essentially a backup GPU: you revert back to it when your video card dies and until you get a replacement. |
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VanguardLH wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote: Yes, although past tense applies now. The updated driver has unfortunately *not fixed it. For me or another friend on the same forum with an almost identical PC as mine and the same video problem. (With the way our NLE, Magix Movie Edit Pro Premium, handles the HDR effect, if you're curious.) Even though the i5 user does not have the problem. So we're still looking, although I'd have thought the chipset driver low on the list of possible causes? ... Did you read my post yesterday reporting that I had installed the latest driver? Twas in another subthread, missed it, sorry. Although both you and your friend are using Windows 10, are you both using the 64-bit version of Windows 10? Yep. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1777473,00.asp "... a native 64-bit video-editing program" http://www.magix.com/us/movie-edit-pro/premium/ "You require a 64-bit version of one the following operating systems: Windows 10, 8, 7" You'd expect a 64-bit only program's installer to NOT allow its install on a 32-bit version of Windows. As to your original topic, you now probably have the latest available driver. No, it may not be listed by Intel using the same version as for the package of driver files. For example, the video package version shown my AMD Catalyst and Device Manager is 15.20.1062.1004. However, looking at the versions of the actual driver files show varying versions (aka file versions, not package versions) only some of which match on the package version. So it depends on which version you are looking at: the package version (fileset) or the file version(s). https://www.extremetech.com/computin...should-you-buy "The Core i7 features quad-cores with Hyper-Threading enabled and Intels HD Graphics 530 solution. The Core i5 family offers quad-cores without Hyper-Threading, and either HD Graphics 530 or 510 GPUs." So the difference is whether or not there is hyperthreading and which video controller is included on the chip. I had assumed you (i7) and your buddy (i5) had the same video driver. Maybe not if he has an i5 with the HD 510 video controller. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2422874,00.asp If hyperthreading is the differentiating factor then maybe you disabling it for your i7 might show if the Magix program then works okay. Maybe Magix doesn't know how to handle virtual cores. Users have complained that enabling hyperthreading results in BSODs or unstable systems (probably due to a defective CPU) or even decreased performance for multi-threaded processes (e.g., [M]SQL) when compared with hyperthreading off. There can be racing problems or deadlocks in code with hyperthreading (not a defect of the processor but in the code, like not handling race conditions between threads). Thread stalling is another problem with hyperthreading. I've seen some forum posts where users complained that Magix did not use all cores in the multi-core processor and also did not use hyperthreading. To me, hyperthreading is like GPU acceleration in web browsers: sometimes helps but if not then disable it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading. Some users report that stutter disappears after disabling hyperthreading: https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comment...utter_problem/ Maybe disabling the i7's extra features so it has only those in the i5 will get Magix to operate properly. https://software.intel.com/en-us/art...n-application/ "Hyper-Threading Technology cannot have performance expectations equivalent to that of multi-processing where all the processor resources are replicated." So reports from users that performance was worse with hyperthreading enabled is even supported in Intel's description. Simulated hardware isn't as fast as real hardware. If it's a driver issue, you might have to test prior versions of the driver for your CPU (i7) to see if one works. As I mentioned, the latest driver is not necessarily the best one. For some programs (games), I had to find the latest prior driver that still worked with them. The latest video driver wasn't the best one and sometimes the worst one. Just to be sure, are you you (i7) and your friend (i5) using the HD graphics controller within the CPU? Or might your friend have a video card? The embedded Intel video graphics is particularly strong in the graphics arena. Performance of CPU-embedded graphics is very low. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gp...u=Intel+HD+530 https://www.futuremark.com/hardware/...ics+530/review For graphics editing, I would think you would want something better than what is essentially a backup GPU: you revert back to it when your video card dies and until you get a replacement. Thanks, appreciate the suggestions. I'll discuss with others in the context of this HDR problem in the MEP forum. Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Terry Pinnell wrote:
Thanks, appreciate the suggestions. I'll discuss with others in the context of this HDR problem in the MEP forum. Terry, East Grinstead, UK https://www.magix.info/uk/forum/hdr-...ages--1103421/ That's not the same thing as video game HDR. And your four second delay in the program, isn't likely to be a video driver issue. If the video driver was stalling and doing a VPU recover, you would expect the screen to "twitch" to some extent (loss of sync, screen going black for up to a second, usually the symptoms are significant). While Magix is running, I would use Process Monitor from Sysinternals.com (a Microsoft company), and run a trace while you "exercise" the bug. Then stop the trace and scroll back, and see if you can spot a contributing factor. Process Monitor does not log every possible aspect, but if Magix was consulting the registry for example, you might find your four second stretch of registry accesses logged in there. For some programs, you can see unbelievable things going on. Paul |
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