Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver
Intel® 865G Chipset, Intel® 910GL and 915G/GV Express Chipset family, Intel® 915GM/GMS and 910GML Express Chipset family, and
Intel® 945G Express Chipset

Production Version 14.12.0.4299
Graphics Driver Release Notes


 

April  21, 2005 

Microsoft* Windows* 2000

Microsoft* Windows* XP
 

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Revision History

 Date

Driver Revision

             Description

Build Number

April 7, 2005

Production Version 14.12.0.4299

Production Version fully validated

4299

April 5, 2005

Production Candidate 14.12.0.4299

Production Candidate fully validated

4299

March 24, 2005

Beta 14.12.0.4288

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

4288

March 17, 2005

Beta 14.12.0.4282

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

4282

March 10, 2005

Beta 14.12.0.4274

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

4274

March 3, 2005

Beta 14.12.0.4270

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

4270

February 24, 2005

Beta 14.12.0.4263

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

4263

February 18, 2005

Beta 14.12.0.4258

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

4258

February 3, 2005

Beta 14.12.0.4246

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

4246

January 27, 2004

Beta 14.12.0.4239

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

4239

January 20, 2004

Beta 14.12.0.4014

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

4014

January 13, 2004

Beta 14.12.0.4004

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

4004

January 06, 2004

Alpha 14.12.0.3997

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

3997

December 22, 2004

Alpha 14.12.0.3991

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

3991

December 16, 2004

Alpha 14.12.0.3986

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

3986

December 9, 2004

Alpha 14.12.0.3974

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

3974

December 1, 2004

Alpha 14.12.0.3969

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

3969

November 24, 2004

Alpha 14.12.0.3961

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

3961

November 19, 2004

Alpha 14.12.0.3958

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

3958

November 11, 2004

Pre-Alpha 14.12.0.3949

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

3949

November 05, 2004

Pre-Alpha 14.12.0.3946

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

3946

October  29, 2004

Pre-Alpha 14.12.0.3941

Weekly engineering drop; not fully validated

3941

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver

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

  • Intel® 865G Chipset
  • Intel® 910GL Express Chipset
  • Intel® 915G Express Chipset
  • Intel® 915GV Express Chipset
  • Intel® 945G Express Chipset
     

New Features 

Features Added in Baseline 14.12.0

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

235228

Rotation Orientation persistence

CUI

259185

CUI Enhancements for Intel® 945G Express Chipset

CUI

899958

VBIOS size reduction to 48 KB

VBIOS

906273

Language support update for GFX CUI and CUI Installer (supporting East Fork and all of GFX 14.12 baseline and beyond)

Loc Translation

 

Known Issues

Known Issues in Build Number 4299

Reference No.

Description

Affected Component(s)

Affected OS(s)

Affected Project's)

73321
 

Visual anomaly / PM - The flicker screen is displayed on TV after the system resumes from S3 suspend mode.
 

N/A

Windows*2000,

Windows* XP,

Windows* XP-64

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

73536

Functional Failure / Miniport - The display does not switch to EFP automatically after resuming from Standby mode when disconnecting CRT during standby mode.

N/A

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset, Intel® 915G Express Chipset

73606

Corruption\ DVD – 3rd party DVD player, Media Center* - The corruption is displayed while playing the Planetary Traveler DVD movie with Media Center application.

DVD

Windows* Media Center

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

72210

The TV screen is colorful at PAL-N mode with the Conexant CX25905 ADD2 card.

N/A

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset

69021

Visual Anomaly / CUI2 – CUI2 Refresh Rates do not match Operating System Property Page Refresh Rates.

CUI2

Windows*2000,

Windows* XP,

Windows* XP-64

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

70080

Functional Failure / OGL - Serious Sam The Second Encounter* - The game resolution changes from 1280x1024 to 640x480 and still on full screen mode after pressing Alt + Enter keys.

OGL

Windows*2000,

Windows* XP,

Windows* XP-64

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

70856

SDVO LVDS does not have Aspect Scaling enabled.

Soft BIOS

Windows*2000,

Windows* XP,

Windows* XP-64

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

71630

Functional Failure / CUI2 - Mosquito - The Restore Default values of Video Overlay do not change to supposed value after reinstalling the graphics driver with the modified INF file.

CUI

Windows* XP,

Windows* XP-64

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

71873

Functional Failure / CUI2 - The incorrect resolutions have been detected on the IGT page with CRT+EFP DDC mode.

NT - miniport

Windows* XP,

Windows* XP-64

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

74169

Functional Failure / CUI2 - The display device radio icon is not located on Monitor after hot unplugging the EFP on DDC mode.

CUI2

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

74170

Corruption / CUI2 - The corruption is displayed on IGT page after hot unplugging the EFP on DDC mode.

CUI2

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

74074

Functional Failure / CUI2 -The CRT Advanced Setting button disappears when connecting the Samsung SyncMaster 750s MCCS monitor to system.

N/A

Windows* XP-64

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

 

Issues Resolved 

 Issues Resolved in 4299

1617622

 Functional Failure / Multiple_DTD_Panel_SD – CUI2 – CUI Information Page is missing modes for LFP that support 50Hz

 CUI2

 Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset,  Intel® 865G Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1615263

 INT_14._12: Display does not switchs from TV to DFP when you are in 720p standard on TV

 CUI2

 Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 865G Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1614947

 Banner of desktop moves when resuming from S3.

 CUI2

 Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 865G Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1600353

 Performance / CUI2 - It is too slow and takes over 20 seconds to display the IGT page with MCCS Monitor.

 CUI2

 Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Chipset, Intel® 865G Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1617801

 Functional Failure / CUI2 - The display cannot be switched to EFP from the DTCM.

 CUI2

 Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1614830

 Functional Failure / PM - The blank screen is displayed on TV after resuming from S1 standby.

 AIM

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1618303

 Functional failure  - 945G/915G - CX25902/CH7021 – PowerDVD* 5 & 6 unable to play macrovision protected DVD using component connection on HDTV

 AIM

 Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1619765

 Intel 14.12_4288: Limestone UMA Video driver displays video corruption in MCE when in windowed mode.

 D3D

 Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

 Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 865G Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1620828

 Functional Failure / DVD - Going into standby with Media Center* App running in full screen mode will cause BSOD

 D3D

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 865G Chipset, Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1610664, 1617047

Fix for customization bugs and Migrating the code changes of Vikas to 14.12 branch (1610664)

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 865G Chipset, Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1602960

Unable to Change and Apply user define Hot key for Rotation using Keyborad Only ( Without Mouse)

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1611243

Updating the resource file in NEW_SRC Directory and latest changes from main to 14.12

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1610664

CUI2: Schemes does not inform the user when overwriting the existing scheme

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1584550

Functional Failure / Soft BIOS - Hot-Plug/unplug - clone mode - system does not reenter DDC/EDT/DDT mode when 2nd monitor is reconnected.

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1612566, 1603776

Macrovision - 915G - Conexant CX25902 ADD2 card: Does Not detect TV.

AIM

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1603736

[On-line Game:'Special Force]anomalies on game menu show up in online game

D3D

Windows* XP, MCE

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1578892

CUI Advanced Settings under Display Settings are not functional

softBIOS

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1610633

Functional Failure / CUI2 -The Monitor resolution is changed to 800x600x16bit@56Hz after setting display mode to EXTD mode with LFP as primary and CRT as secondary from 1024x768x32bit@60Hz.

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1606413

LFP+CRT Twin mode cannot be set using CUI2 on Alviso.

CUI2

 

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1611242

CUI2: Scheme does not return to previous configuration on closing the application

CUI2

 

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1611248

CUI2: Scheme gets applied twice on pressing Apply and then OK.

CUI2

 

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1563737

Driver error with AlwaysOn XD-bit setting

CUI2

 

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1575182

Hang / OGL - Homeworld 2 - The blue screen is displayed and the system hangs while changing the Homeworld 2 game resolution.[REG]

OGL

Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1584561

Visual anomaly / OGL - Hitman - some scenes are washed out with OGL enabled

OGL

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1603409

Calistoga: System Blue Screens while resuming from standby. (Check Sighting#71989 for more details

miniPort

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1596947

when overlay is running on single display you can see the clone settings are visible

GDI

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1571077, 1596941

It cannot set from D1(HDTV_480i59) to another mode on Device Settings property.

CUI2

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1603879

We get BSOD when change from NTSC- PAL-G standard in SDTV

AIM

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1602036

[Virtual Desktop]Overlay does not follow scrolling of a desktop.

DD

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1601041

Overlay that starts outside viewport in panning mode does not show up until you move the mouse.

DD

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1583007

945G-Screen does not refreshed correctly when enable Shadow Mapping on IShadowMap.

OGL

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1598378

Movie file is not played correctly on @EIZOKAN v.1.9.

DD

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1581098

[WinXP-TE] Shape of eraser of Windows Journal corrupt when using 90 degree or 270 degree with some settings.

Rotation

TabletPC, Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, , Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1382048, 1382005

Full sized DOS prompt may corrupted in DDC mode.

softBIOS

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1599092

Functional Failure / CUI2 - The Driver Version is displayed Not Available in the IGT page. [64-bit][REG]

CUI2

XP64

Intel® 915G Express Chipset

1598973

 

It will become BSOD when movie is played on "Virtual Desktop".

DD

Windows* XP

Chipset, Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1590205

 

Monitor signal out of range when loading GMCH driver

miniPort, softBIOS

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Chipset, Intel® 865G Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1597477

 

Functional Failure / CUI2 - Mosquito - The Restore Default values of Video Overlay do not change to supposed value after reinstalling the graphics driver with the modified INF file.[RTA]

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 865G Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1557011

Fix for MCE HDTV not running smoothly

D3D, GMM, GDI, GDI

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1579404, 1579404

Fix for Display switching issues in CUI2 - CT

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1574637

The desktop screen does not scroll on SVGA and XGA.

AIM, softBIOS

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000, Tablet PC

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1581428

DD doesn't handle locks on non-lockable surfaces

DD

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1562366

Visual Anomaly / CUI2 – Radio Buttons in CUI2 move or shift upwards when you click on them.

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1584278

Visual Anomaly / CUI2 - Gamma slider displays incorrect range

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1580393

Supported Modes is "Not Available" in CUI page.

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1580635

Functional Failure / CUI2 - CUI will hang after clicking "What's This?"

CUI2

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1584835

INF file change for changing the Resource ID of igfxdia.exe from 560 to 2945

INF

Windows* XP, Windows* 2000

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1565907

Corruption / D3D – Max Payne – Pressing ALT + TAB will create massive of display corruption in the game

D3D

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1584849

Execute plane A, B, C, or overlay flips, go into PM event, return, and then system hangs

miniPort/KCH

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1573625

On CUI Phase 2, the message in display device tab is erased when the window is moved to bottom.

CUI2

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1579422

Unable to Apply new color Setting with CRT and DFP in Twin Mode

CUI2

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1581137

Display on EFP flickers during mouse right click

UAIM

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset

1575277

DMX 3.0 has black screen or video driver unloads when click on play.

DD

Windows* XP

Intel® 865G Chipset

1574369

EFP is not detected in PCI primary multimonitor settings. Screen goes to analog display.

softBIOS

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset

1561509

Screen is interrupted/corrupted/Noise appear at Windows Logo screen while PowerON/restart WindowsXP.

AIM

Windows* XP

Intel® 865G Chipset

1580905

LID disable extended view (CRT&DVI) and enable dual view (CRT&LCD) or CRT only once it is release.

miniPort

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset

1579167

Unable to Enable/Disable rotation in Extended desktop  mode with CRT and DFP connected

CUI2

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1579422

In Aspect Scaling customization, when the Full Screen, MAS, and Centering are removed,  xxxFullScreen Buttonxxx checkbox is shown.

 

CUI2

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1569890

Corrupted video screen on 1280x720 when fullscreen WinDVD PB

DD

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset

1566741

Fix for slow scroll and DPST backlight save and restore

miniPort

Windows* 2000, Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset

1567953

No GHAL support for destination color keying

DD

Windows* 2000, Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1433665

System can not wake up from standby (ACPI:S3) when monitor power is working together with PC. Both DDC1/DDC2B supported monitor is needed to replicate this issue.

miniPort

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1572993

 

 

Problem on DXVA host IDCT decode function

DxVA

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1579096

Multiple CUI2 issues resolved: assigning hot keys in CUI is not intuitive, color page applies wrong colors, Rotation hot keys has an enable/disable issue

CUI2

Windows* 2000, Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1577778

With CUI open, select any CRT panel fit option from DTCM, the same does not get refreshed in CUI page

CUI2

Windows* 2000, Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1578581

IGT tab in Display Properties shows "Intel(R) Extreme Graphics 2" instead of "Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator"

CUI2

Windows* 2000, Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1577795

 

CUI page does not gets refreshed during ACPI hotkey switching

CUI2

Windows* 2000, Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1567368

Functional Failure: cube tears into lines

DD, softBIOS

Windows* 2000, Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1559757

Assume CRT device for Secondary Extended device

GDI

Windows* 2000, Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset

1573078

[Excel2003] When "Smart Loupe" is installed, the character of the font of 20 points or more disappears.

GDI

Windows* XP

Intel® 915G Express Chipset, Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1567953

Visual anomaly / D3D - X29, OGL_TUNNEL, Text3D, Cull, EffectEdit - The white screens are displayed on x29 and OGL_TUNNEL windows after pressing the Alt + Enter keys to switch the Text3D window twice.[RTA]

OGL

Windows* 2000

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1567368

Functional Failure/Flip2d_AsyncFlp cube tears into lines

GDI

Windows* 2000, Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1567939

W-DCT5.3 - General - INF Check - Test fails on Intel® 945G Express Chipset

INF File

Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset

1566172

Visual Anomaly / DD – Media Player – Media Player is blank on the Secondary Display when playing a Mpeg file in Dual Display Clone

INF File

Windows* 2000, Windows* XP

Intel® 945G Express Chipset