- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Dear community, dear Intel support,
2 Month ago, I decided to buy myself a tablet computer, simply because I wanted to use the new Microsoft Windows 8. I've found one with an Intel n2600 processor, a processor that was release about one year ago. Because it was shipped with Windows 7, I personally checked, and I got the information that all my system components would be compatible, from the official Microsoft website. When The computer then arrived, I installed the support assistant, which reconfirmed the Information I've already known: The Intel N2600 Processor with the GMA 3600 Chipset is fully compatible with Windows 8
The trouble came after the Installation: The problem wasn't even that the Driver wouldn't be working well, but the Graphicsdevice wasn't even recognizes! Long story short: There is NO WAY for me to get that device running, even though it't a very new device and I was told it was going to work.
No I know, it's a chipset that is built in a lot of computers, even in some very new ones. Because of that, I'm by far not the only one with this problem: There are a lot discussions going on right now, concerning the same problem. But maybe, it still isn't enough that Intel finally realizes that they need to follow the needs of their customer: The only thing we can do right now is to ask Intel to provide that Driver, over and over again that they will figure out that this really is a serious thing, and that it's concerning a lot more people than they actually might think.
By the way, here is a petition I've found: It's not me who created it, but I believe with things like that we can show how may we are, so please, take a moment and sign this petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/gma600/ Windows 8 support for Intel Atom Tablets
I hope you can all support me, and who knows, maybe Intel could do something about that?
Sincerely,
Imer
Link Copied
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
You know what else would be good? If they could fix the drivers they put out for 7. The ones they released for Netbook users like myself are just busted. Soooo many problems with video acceleration, glitches out the wazoo in 3d rendering, and unacceptably bad performance for a half-decent low-powered igp. If intel cant even correctly make a driver for the still-biggest operating system out there, I wouldnt be suprised if windows 8 gets the even-sh*ttier end of the stick. If i were to make a petition, id make it one for better driver support for the GMA3600 series in general, 8 and 7. Why did we get abandonned?
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Tyler Colli ns wrote:
You know what else would be good? If they could fix the drivers they put out for 7.
Indeed, even the Windows 7 drivers are very poor, though it looks like there won't be any more drivers at all for the GMA 3600/3650 :-
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Yeah, I must admit, when I was running Windows 7 on my tablet and wanted to test the performance I was pretty shocked about the result. I knew before that it isn't a high-performance graphics chip of course, but still, I believe with some better drivers, the performance could have been boosted quite a lot...
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Yet another person in the same boat. Two days ago, I purchased an Acer Aspire One Netbook with intel Atom N2600 for my "on the run" work. Just upgraded to windows 8 tonight only to find out that none of the apps will work with this low resolution. I'm assuming from all the online reading I've done there is yet to be a solution to this issue. If anyone knows otherwise, please feel free to share. I'm not the most computer savvy person but with no disrespect to the intel company, should the folks in this situation further go without a solution I do not see why I/we should consider doing business with intel in the future.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hello.
The story is simple. My old netbook aod255 went to laptop heaven and i bought a new AOD270. It came with linux and 4gb ram so i installed as always my heavy used windows xp (i have win7 but personally i think xp is faster) and full of good hope i tried to install graphic driver and.... everybody who read this knows what.... Ok so after i thought for few minutes about how it is possible to not create normal functioning drivers, especially that this laptop is not some "new" model - it has more than year - i know that its a loooong time in technology, I gave up and installed win7. Ok i found the drivers but my god...... I mostly use this laptop for work, but everybody wants to have some fun sometime, and my earlier acer model run Heroes of might and magic V in "playable" way.. not to mention Morrowind or other older games. But this.... this.... "thing" called gma3600 works worse than my old model N450 with gma3150 and 2gb ram.... its horror. Most games dont even run, and heroes now is some slideshownightmarething... I understand that netbooks are for work and if i want to play something i should buy something else for "fun", but my god.... im talking about worse performance of new aod270 than aod255 that is more that 3 years old. Im not expert in computer stuff but i can see theres no difference - even that this netbook is slower in graphic that my old.... my aod270 mostly is faster because i also bought ssd... I dont even mention windows 8 support - now i understand why my friend was cursing using win 8 on aod270 and he got this system when he bought netbook, why they didnt warn him?... I dont mention performance when im working because It IS faster a little all this word/internet explorer stuff. And now i red all those posts about gma3600 and Im angry. Because i always used Intel. Many years ago it was good, even better, I would always recommend intel to all. But not now. I cannot even understand why are we getting abandoned here with this crappy drivers. Now you say that there will be no new drivers.Its a joke. Its not problem with hardware as I understand so it only mean that you are greedy, let unfinished product on shop shelves, and now you show middle finger to all, probably cause you think you will get away with that? Nice work Intel... I could believe in this kind of situation if I would buy something from some small company but not from you. Believe me I will with joy read in future about your worsening financial condition and market losing. You will earned it by your own wrongdoings.
P.s. sorry for my english. Im not native speaker....
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Paweł wrote:
But this.... this.... "thing" called gma3600 works worse than my old model N450 with gma3150 and 2gb ram.... its horror. Most games dont even run, and heroes now is some slideshownightmarething... I understand that netbooks are for work and if i want to play something i should buy something else for "fun", but my god.... im talking about worse performance of new aod270 than aod255 that is more that 3 years old.
Yep even with 'functional' drivers in Windows 8, the PowerVR SGX 545 as used in the Cedar/Clover Trail is pretty horrible :- http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ativ-smart-pc-500t-windows-8-atom,3360-6.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ativ-smart-pc-500t-windows-8-atom,3360-6.html
Certainly nothing you'd want to game with unfortunately, at least not on Windows/DirectX (obviously same/similar GPU performs fine under Android/iOS... go figure as to why this is )
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Well once again, I really have to admit that I'm surprised day by day how many people are sharing this problem, and I'm wondering how many others are out there.
Even if I definitely couldn't find any solution, and I don't believe there are solutions around, at least not at this very moment - if anybody would know about any custom drivers or other things that might help fixing this problem, I think we would all be very thankful for any kind of hint how we could get this device working...
Sincerely,
Imer
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
imer96 wrote:
Even if I definitely couldn't find any solution, and I don't believe there are solutions around, at least not at this very moment - if anybody would know about any custom drivers or other things that might help fixing this problem, I think we would all be very thankful for any kind of hint how we could get this device working...
To be honest, going forward the only usable solution for Cedar Trail platforms will be to use Linux, even though PowerVR driver support on Linux still isn't great, it still performs decently enough on the desktop (albeit without 3D acceleration using the Ubuntu Cedarview PPA) and there'll always be community support. There are rumours of a proper upcoming open source ImgTech driver also.
You're not going to get any driver love from Intel on Windows I'm afraid, they've burnt their Cedar Trail users and are now moving on with other platforms they deem more important.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Intel better have a good solution to this soon. Simply stating that there will be no 64bit or Windows 8 support for a product they initially claimed to be compatible is not acceptable. If anyone knows of a law firm already handling a class action regarding this, please let me know.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
I totally agree with you, I think it's not acceptable at all what Intel does to its customers... But still, I hardly believe that there will be a lawsuit, even if I have to admit that I'm not really informed about that. And even if there is a lawsuit, Intel is a huge company with a lot of money, so they'll probably always be the stronger one. Well we can do nothing but hope, then even if there will be a suit, it will take forever until we'll get our part out of it...
But anyway, whatever will or might happen, if Intel doesn't look after their customers, it will come back to them pretty soon, and another company will take it's place, like as example AMD, and Intel will be a story of the past.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
I have
Acer Aspire One D270 Intel GMA 3600 notebook.
I give my money for this Intel GMA 3600 product-platform.
Where is driver?
Intel, do the right thing and deliver proper software for your processors!
I think it's not acceptable at all what Intel does to its customers?
Nice work Intel...
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Intel is going to lose its reputation because of this issue. I would never recommend any intel netbook or labtop to anyone. AMD is better.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hi:
guys, I'm guessing Intel will never release any driver for GMA 3600 on Atom N2600/N2800,
because Intel want us to upgrade to new Cedar/Clover Trail platfrom atom Windows 8,
clearly they don't want us to stick on old N2600/N2800 platform
You know Intel has this ugly close-source "tradition"
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
I bought an N2600 laptop a few months ago and I just bought Win 8 for it. If you even click a single tile on the start screen, it goes through a fit of video driver TDRs and will bluescreen within 5 seconds. I'm using the 8.14.8.1075 driver.
This is totally unacceptable and a bit insane ... they 'just released' clover trail uses the EXACT same graphics chip as the cedar trail 3600. Why doesn't Intel just release the SGX driver shared by both ?
I would be very discouraged to purchase (or even recommend to anyone to purchase) an Intel based tablet if they can't get a functional driver released that doesn't trash the machine almost immediately after you log in.
I couldn't care less if it was glitchy, slow, etc but the machine is almost unusable.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
You'll just have to uninstall Windows 8 I'm afraid, Intel have already said they don't plan to release a Cedar Trail graphics driver for it.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hallo,
hier noch ein Eintrag auf Deutsch zu dem leidigen Thema:
gibt es irgend eine Möglichkeit, dem Treiber für Windows 7 (mit dem ich bisher immer ganz zufrieden war) die Instabilität unter Windows 8 abzugewöhnen?
Irgendwie führt JEDER Versuch, eine Metro-Programm zu starten, zu einem Totalabsturz. Damit müsste man kategorisch vor dem Einsatz von Intel Atom im Zusammenhang mit Windows 8 warnen.
Mircrosoft wies mich beim Upgrade jedoch nicht auf Inkompatibilitäten hin, der mitgelieferte Treiber kann leider keinen WideScreen-Monitor ansteuern und beherrscht scheinbar auch keine Hardwarebeschleunigung. Von daher würde ich mich über einen Treiber von Intel für Windows 8 freuen...
Zusammengefasst:
Sind GMA 3600 Treiber ohne Metro-Handicap in Sicht?
Kann man (als Workaround) dem Microsoft-Treiber Breitbild (anstatt 4:3) beibringen?
Mit freundlichem Gruß und vielen Dank für all die Mühe
Murx
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Sehr geehrter Herr Murx,
Nun ja, wie ich aus deinem Beitrag herauslesen kann, hast du also einen Treiber für den Grafikchip installiert? Könntest du und den Link dazu geben? ..Dies wäre sehr nett. Denn ich (und wahrscheinlich die meisten anderen auch) benutzen keinen Treiber von Intel, sondern den Standard Microsoft Videotreiber. Mit diesem können die meisten Metro Apps einwandfrei ausgeführt werden, auch wenn dann natürlich die ganze visuelle Verarbeitung auf den Prozessor kommt, welcher für dies nicht geeignet ist. Auch die Media Beschleunigung funktioniert dadurch logischerweise nicht. Microsoft deutet leider nicht darauf hin, das der Treiber inkompatibel ist. Zu den Fragen: GMA-Treiber ohne 'Handicap' ...Naja, es gibt ja nicht mal welche mit dem Handicap, (Wo hast du den gefunden?) Aber Voraussichtlich hat Intel ganz klar gesagt, und es gibt auch keine Anzeichen von anderen Entwicklern dass ein Treiber erscheinen wird. Dies hier ist lediglich ein Verzweiflungsausruf, denn wie bereits von vielen vor mir bestätigt, wird es wohl kaum ein Support geben, maximal für Linux, welches für mich definitiv nicht in frage kommt. Wenn ich an deiner Stelle wäre, würde ich auf den Standard Treiber wechseln, aus dem einfachen Grund dass du all deine Probleme dann vergessen kannst.
Danke für deinen Beitrag, und bitte gebe uns doch einen Link an,
Imer
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hallo Imer,
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=3382&DwnldID=21690 http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=3382&DwnldID=21690 ist ein Link zu 8.14.8.1083 - dem meiner Meinung nach aktuellsten Treiber für Win 7 32 bit.
Um ihn unter Win 8 installieren zu können, braucht es da alte dot.net-Gelumpe (3.5 oder älter, glaub' ich), welches nicht automatisch mit Win 8 mit installiert wird.
Mit diesem Treiber - wie oben gesagt läuft er ausgezeichnet unter Win 7 32 bit - ist auch unter Win 8 fast alles möglich:
- Ausgabe auf Breitbild-Monitore im richtigen Seitenverhältnis (16:9)
- Hardwarebeschleunigte Videoausgabe (mehr Gummipunkte im windowseigenen Benchmark)
Leider kostet das die Metro-Funktionalität...
Werde jetzt also noch ein wenig bei Windows 7 verweilen - bis sich an der Treiberfront wieder etwas tut.
Als ich mir im letzte Jahr das Board geholt habe, gab es viele verschieden Versionen - bis zum erscheinen der hier verlinkten 1083 war glaub' ich Samsung oder Toshiba der aktuellste. Evtl. einigen die sich ja mit den Treiberentwicklern ;o)
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hi,
since I'm still interested in GMA 3600 and running windows:
So we have same situation as in last summer!
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=deu&ProductFamily=Grafik&ProductLine=Grafiktechnik+f%C3%BCr+Netbooks+und+Tablet-PCs&ProductProduct=Intel%C2%AE+Grafik-Media-Beschleuniger+der+3600er-Reihe http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=deu&ProductFamily=Grafik&ProductLine=Grafiktechnik+f%C3%BCr+Netbooks+und+Tablet-PCs&ProductProduct=Intel%C2%AE+Grafik-Media-Beschleuniger+der+3600er-Reihe is 8.14.8.1065 if you look for GMA 3600,
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21690&lang=deu&OSVersion=Windows%207%20(32%26nbsp%3Bbit)*&DownloadType=Treiber http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21690&lang=deu&OSVersion=Windows%207%20(32%26nbsp%3Bbit)*&DownloadType=Treiber is 8.14.8.1083 if you look for your GMA 3600 on your D2700mud,
http://www.motioncomputing.com/drivers/2013/q1_updates_CL91.htm http://www.motioncomputing.com/drivers/2013/q1_updates_CL91.htm is a 8.14.8.1089 driver for windows 7 from some distributor...
and still no Windows 8 around the corner!
Why?
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page