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I'm still mad at intel for abandoning driver support for the i7-8705G

Although in that case it's unclear whether they or AMD are more at fault. Probably intel though.

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Huh I didn't know that shipped.

What do you mean "abandoning" driver support? Does it not function?

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It shipped (I used to own a [redacted device containing the chip]) with okay drivers and every subsequent update made game performance slower. The only way to play (some) games at anywhere near the settings that you should be able to given the card's specs, is to rollback drivers. Which is not easy, given that they were (iirc) usually bundled thru intel's driver site with drivers for the intel GPU (HD graphics 630 or whatever) that is ALSO present on the chip.

And after you've successfully done that, now newer releases won't play because your drivers are too old.

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Did you try updating at the BIOS level?

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Pretty sure I did? This was long enough ago that I don't remember super clearly. There were reddit threads about this issue but I can't find them anymore and I can't tell whether it's google refusing to show them to me or because they were lost to one of the reddit api strikes.

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Intel removed a bunch of their own downloads for reasons

People in datahoarder archived them tho


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17330111803968997.webp

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https://media.tenor.com/5STHP1kcduUAAAAx/blade-runner.webp

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Could be the mitigations for Meltdown

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Means a windows update could come along and make your system shit slow and Intel would tell you to suck every peepee in your hemisphere.

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