[Opensim-users] Microsoft Surface Pro and Windows 8.1 - Intel HD Graphics 4000 Issues

[Xena]

I had to update the Graphics 4000 driver too from Intel.

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From: "Ai Austin" <ai.ai.austin at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 11:45 AM
To: <opensim-users at lists.berlios.de>
Subject: [Opensim-users] Microsoft Surface Pro and Windows 8.1 - Intel HD 
Graphics 4000 Issues

> Some advice from my experience in last 24 hours... in case you use 
> Firestorm or otherSecond Life viewers on a Microsoft Surface Pro....  the 
> Intel HD 4000 Graphics drivers in the official windows updates of the 
> firmware have caused crashes of the viewers on startup and a manual 
> install of the latest drivers from Intel was necessary to fix the 
> problem,.
>
> The Windows 8.1 update on 17-Oct-2013 installs as standard Intel HD 
> Graphics 4000 drivers 10.18.10.3316 1-Oct-2013 which seems to fix previous 
> official Microsoft Surface driver issues for Second Life and OpenSim 
> viewers.  Pink screen issues on viewer close also fixed.
>
> But System Hardware Update 5-Oct-2013 which then shows in Windows Update 
> for the Surface Pro reinstalls Intel HD 4000 Graphics drivers 9.18.10.3257 
> 29-Jul-2013 and that seems to be bad... a previous 20+fps viewer runs very 
> slowly at 0.4fps for some reason.
>
> "Update" driver back to 3316 with drivers on the computer and frame rate 
> returns to 20+fps.
>
> Since the 3316 driver does not seem to be on the Intel driver update site 
> at the moment, do that via
>
> Device Manager -> Display Drivers -> Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
> Right click and select "Update Driver Software..."
> Select "Browse my computer for driver software"
> Select "Let me pick from a  list of drivers on my computer"
> Choose the 3116 that was installed by the main windows 8.1 update.
>
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