Latest Intel Iris and HD graphics driver offers 26 bug fixes

Intel has updated its graphics driver for users of its integrated graphics chipsets built-into 3^rd and 4^th generation Core processors. The combined drivers, for Windows 7 and 8, are said to bring a whole host of fixes in applications and games.

The new Intel graphics driver is flagged as version 15.31.17.3257 (for 32-bit Windows) and version 15.31.17.64.3257 (64-bit). These updates to Intel’s graphics driver quash 26 bugs in applications and games. Ivy Bridge system owners have three issues fixed, the rest of the bugs and glitches fixed are specific to Haswell systems.

You can see a full list of the fixes within Intel’s associated release notes for the new driver (PDF). Some of the fixes are for pretty serious glitches such as system crash issues as well as many cases of graphic display corruption. If you played games such as Resident Evil 5, Metro 2033, Battlefield 3 and BioShock these new drivers will sooth away a lot of problems.

In addition to these fixes Intel has detailed a list of new releases that “are known to run well on 4^th Generation Intel Core Processors”. This list includes Dota 2, Grid 2, Lost Planet 3, Metro: Last Light, NASCAR: The Game 2013 and Total War: Rome II. This list is only of “notable games” and is not exhaustive, says Chipzilla.

With the new driver release Intel advises customers to upgrade the following applications “to avoid unexpected issues”: 3DMark11, Unigine Heaven, Batman Arkham City, Mafia 2, Homefront, Battlefield 3 and Company of Heroes.

Finally, Intel doesn’t claim to have fixed all its driver problems and informs us that there is still a considerable list of known issues including crashes in ‘Sandra 2012’ and ‘Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed’, Minor artifacts in Street Fighter IV, 3D Studio Max 2013 and other situations. Also a media playback problem, where “corruption on some DVDs after about 6 minutes” is exhibited, hasn’t been fixed.

If you have a system with Intel’s Iris or HD graphics as the sole or switchable graphics subsystem you can download the new 32-bit driver and the new 64 bit driver today.