Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator driver

Production Version 14.37.4.5218

Release Notes

 

January 21, 2010

 

Microsoft Windows* XP

 

 

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver

The Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver contains support for the following Intel® Chipsets:

·    Intel(R) G31 Express Chipset

·    Intel(R) G33 Express Chipset

·    Intel(R) G35 Express Chipset

·    Intel(R) G41 Express Chipset

·    Intel(R) G43 Express Chipset

·    Intel(R) G45 Express Chipset

·    Intel(R) Q33 Express Chipset

·    Intel(R) Q35 Express Chipset

·    Intel(R) Q43 Express Chipset

·    Intel(R) Q45 Express Chipset

·    Mobile Intel(R) GL40 Express Chipset

·    Mobile Intel(R) GS40 Express Chipset

·    Mobile Intel(R) GM45 Express Chipset

·    Mobile Intel(R) GM965 Express Chipset

·    Mobile Intel(R) GS45 Express Chipset

New Features

Features Added in Baseline 14.37

Reference No.

Description

Affected Components

Affected Chipsets

 

Support Embedded DisplayPort* with AUX and DPCD mandatory.

VBIOS, softBIOS and Power Conservation

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family

 

Support 512 MB system memory configuration

GMM

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family

 

Read color depth from panel EDID.

VBIOS and softBIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family

 

Support Video BIOS bit to distinguish S-DRRS and DRRS panels

VBIOS. And softBIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family

 

Add DirectX* Query Timestamp and Timestamp_Freq.

D3D

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

Known Issues

Known Issues in Build 5218

Reference No.

Description

Affected Components

Affected Chipset(s)

2855737

The audio playback might not be heard while play a VCD movie via Windows* Media player 9 application, and then switch the Command Prompt window from full screen mode to window mode.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Issues Resolved

Issues Resolved in Build 5218

Reference No.

Description

Affected Components

Affected Chipsets

2808023

Driver user interface might report the incorrect EDID information.

CUI

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2855916

When playing a hardware accelerated media file, while in clone mode, the playback window on the integrated display might black out after monitor off/on toggle.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3001806

Screen corruption might appears during unbundle while DASH Windows* XP with latest Intel Graphics driver.

GDI

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3002494

SpinFire Reader* application may crash after selecting a view.

OpenGL*

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

3002981

When changing the color quality and using an HDMI monitor in color quality 32bits/1680*1050 mode, video distortion might occur.

Power Conservation

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3003755

In some cases, driver might  detect multiple external monitors intermittently

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

3003866

Playing Settlers Rise of an Empire* game may cause a Bluescreen error:  “igxpdx32.dll 0x8E”.

Power Conservation

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3004090

Short wait time before sending DDC/CI command package to get reply message from a DisplayPort* monitor.

Soft BIOS

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3004190

The game Warcraft* III Frozen Throne* might hang with integrated graphics.

Direct3D*

Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

3004193

BSOD might occur when pressing Fn+F12 after opening OEM toolbox application.

GDI

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3004323

When using Adobe Photoshop* CS4 with an image 6000x6000px and resolution 300DPI, sometimes painting with the brush might have artifacts present.

OpenGL*

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3039332

Sometimes when using a resolution of 1024x768, and using an external monitor setup to extended mode, and the screen saver starts after closing the laptop display; after opening the laptop display and login to the system, the external monitor might switch to clone mode automatically.

CUI

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3039563

Driver user interface might report an error while playing the Pinball in full screen mode and pressing F1.

CUI

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3039798

3174451

While in Windows* Display Property settings in the Adapter tab, the Adapter String field might display "4500M" instead of "4500MHD", after doing a driver update.

NT - miniport

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3039841

In some instances SDVO (Serial Digital Video Out) Power down might not work.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3174526

 

Switching to external display via hotkey “Fn+F4” in an OEM system might not work.

Video BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3174789

When using a customized INF file you might not be able to select refresh rate 40Hz in "Advanced Settings".

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3175548

Monitor EDID information might not get detected when using a Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) switch.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3176021

While using an HDMI external monitor, the monitor might keep displaying even while HPD is Low.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3176094

Dual display clone mode might not be persisting after a hot dock.

NT - miniport

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3176121

The following error might occur: “igfxsrvc Module has encountered a problem and needs to close.” While resuming from S3, and using an OEM power management utility.

CUI

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3176370

While using Adobe* Photoshop CS4* and dragging an undocked image, and tabbed documents is enable; the image might not redraw correctly.

OpenGL*

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3176780

Image on the monitor might shake when playing a WMV video in clone mode, and resolution of 1600x1200 or more.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3176821

Shadows of objects might show blinking when running AquaMark3* under very high quality settings in demo mode.

Direct3D*

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3177039

When using a DisplayPort* to VGA dongle and set to dual display extended or clone mode, more than 80% percent of the screen might get vertical lines.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3177040

When using a DisplayPort* to VGA dongle, and selecting VGA display only, the right side of the display might shake.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3289393

In some cases system can not pass " HDCP Compliance Test 1A-09".

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3289674

3290075

While connecting to an external monitor via DisplayPort*, system might get BSOD during boot sequence at the Windows* XP logo screen.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3290220

Illegal strings might show in the driver user interface icon.

CUI

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3290799

3291596

The screen might collapse when rotating the screen while playing GTK sample.

OpenGL*

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

3290873

While running Microsoft* verifier and selecting drivers that begin with “igx” and running 3DMark2006* a BSOD might occur.

Resource Manager

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3292018

A “RunDLL32” error might occur when using Windows* XP Chinese OS and 5160 video driver.

Loc Translation

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2807335

Running 3DMark03* for several hours may cause this error: “Could not lock vertex buffer – Driver internal error”.

DirectDraw*

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2855464

Resizing shared texture issue or black texture might be seen after texture modification.

OpenGL*

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2954534

Extended mode might not remain consistent after close lid and resuming from S3.

CUI

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2955267

Move Capability results in window being off-screen on the target display

CUI

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3001885

3001886

A BSOD error might occur when rebooting the system.

NT - miniport

Mobile Intel® GL40 Express

3002334

When using dual display (monitor with DisplayPort* + Notebook display) in clone mode; DisplayPort* might become disabled after the computer returns from sleep/suspend mode (S3).

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3002433

Adjusting color/exposure settings in Windows* Live Photo Gallery*, may cause the pictures to turn black.

Direct3D* State

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3002577

Running 3DMark05* for several hours may cause the following errors: “IDirect3D9: CreateDevice failed: Invalid call (D3DERR_INVALIDCALL)” and “IDirect3DDevice9: DrawIndexed Primitive failed: Driver internal error (D3DERR_DRIVERINTERNALERROR).

DirectDraw*

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3002799

When using 2 monitors with DVI+HDMI in Clone mode, changing the resolution to 1280*800 might not work properly.

NT - miniport

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3003006

In Display Settings - Help Tip for screen resolution might not be translated correctly.

Loc Translation

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3003007

In Color page - Help tip - translation might not be completely accurate

Loc Translation

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family
Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3003112

A BSOD might occur while running a stress program with a possible error: “bad pool caller.”

NT - miniport

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3003408

When playing a video using GraphEdit* with a Video Mixing Render 9 (VMR-9) filter, the video might turn green.

DVD

Intel® 3 Series Chipset Family
Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3003567

The monitor might turn black at rebooting test with ECO mode tool installed using VGA.

Soft BIOS

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

3003755

When hot dock and hot re-docked, system might not detect multiple external monitors intermittently.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

3003924

Sometimes a BSOD might happen while connecting an external display via DisplayPort* and pressing Fn+F7 to launch “Presentation Director” and clicking on “new button” and selecting a digital device.

NT - miniport

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2561472

2954926

After hot docking in dual external displays, DVI+VGA might not detect properly sometimes with Windows* XP.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2561584

In some cases while using extended mode, and the user logs out, closes the lid, then opens the lid and logs back in; the external display turns off but extended mode is still on. If applications were on the extended display before logging out the user can't access the applications.

CUI

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

2743069

If monitor is turned off while playing Quake* 4 game and after a long pause, the system might halt.

OpenGL*

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2787374

Video might overlap in one window when playing video file via third party media player at the same time when playing a video with Windows* Media Player and enabling “OverlayMixer.”

DirectDraw*

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2807426

TV format (between PAL_D and NTSC_M) might not be retained after toggling one cycle via Fn+F4.

CUI2.5

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2807439

2855502

Internal LCD screen color might become strange (purple, blue, green or gray), when entering Auto Hibernation from Auto sleep.

NT - miniport

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2807601

Hibernation Functional test (with WinPVT*) might fail with a possible 'igfxsrvc.exe' error seen with memory leak listed.

CUI2.5

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2807982

Extended desktop might not be persistent after rebooting.

CUI2.5

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

2855900

In cloned mode, CRT as primary, 1280x800 does not persistent

NT - miniport

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2912349

While using a DVI external display monitor, driver user interface might not recognize the monitor.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2912785

While installing all the drivers via plug and play method during auditing process, a corruption might happen during the VGA driver inf installation.

Video BIOS

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2913201

Actual Refresh rate in the On-Screen-Display might not be the same as Refresh rate which is selected in driver user interface.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2913228

DPST level set by OEM spec should be one below max which is currently 5. When this is set in VBT, the Intel default might override back to two below max.

Power Conservation

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family
Santa Rosa

2954768

Toggle between clone mode to external mode via Fn+F4 might not work.

CUI

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2954832

Desktop distortion might occur after one of the connected displays is rotated by 90 degrees.

GMM

Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family

2955008

Some Intel Video Power Management functions in the driver user interface might be grayed out.

Soft BIOS

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Chipset Family