Intel Releases latest HD Graphics Driver - Enables Netflix and YouTube HDR

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/08/2017 09:58 AM | source: | 11 comment(s)

Intel today released its latest Graphics Driver for Windows v15.60 WHQL. It is compatible with most GPU embedded procs including 6th generation "Skylake," 7th generation "Kaby Lake," and 8th generation "Coffee Lake" processors.

The drivers also add support for 10-bpc (1.07 billion colors) displays over HDMI, and adds video decode hardware acceleration for several formats introduced after DirectX 12. The new build is WDDM 2.3 compliant for the Fall Update and adds support for YouTube and Netflix HDR on Windows 10. The driver also brings game optimizations for Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Call of Duty: WWII, Destiny 2 and Divinity: Original Sin.

Thanks go out to SH SOTN for this spot.

- Download (v15.60.0.4849)

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Ssateneth
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#5490363 Posted on: 11/08/2017 11:24 AM

now if only 10bpp was available for their consumer level graphics cards (AMD and nvidia)

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#5490389 Posted on: 11/08/2017 01:02 PM

HDR enabled for Kabylake and Coffeelake only.

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#5490404 Posted on: 11/08/2017 01:50 PM

So just for Intel Onboard graphics?

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#5490417 Posted on: 11/08/2017 03:07 PM

So just for Intel Onboard graphics?

Also for discrete Intel graphics.

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#5490424 Posted on: 11/08/2017 03:27 PM

I feel we are very long overdue for REAL 32-bit color, not the fake one that Windows claims to use. 24-bit (what most of us are actually using) was fine back when 720p was common, because dithering was pretty hard to notice. But now, a lot of media is starting to look real ugly when subtle gradients are spread across a long distance.

now if only 10bpp was available for their consumer level graphics cards (AMD and nvidia)

Depending on your definition of "consumer", some workstation GPUs support it.

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#5490431 Posted on: 11/08/2017 03:43 PM

I feel we are very long overdue for REAL 32-bit color, not the fake one that Windows claims to use.

32-bit is not something you'll really see being used, because it doesn't make much sense, either way. 24-bit is often handled as 32-bit with the addition of an alpha channel, or just for data alignment reasons (because 4 bytes/32-bit is a neat power of two, 3 bytes is not)
More accurately one should refer to the bits per component (bpc), which typically has been 8-bit for a long time, and for HDR is now moving to 10 and 12-bit (which makes 30 or 36 bits per pixel)

As long as PCs are stuck in the sRGB color space however, more then 8-bit isn't really needed. Would be nice, but not required. It'll still be a long time before PC applications become actually color managed and wide-gamut PC screens become widespread beyond professional use.

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Note that 10-bit is available on all recent desktop GeForce cards through DirectX, and probably on AMD as well.

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