Intel's fancy new mandatory Win 10 UWD drivers, everything else is legacy

[escrow4]

Version 25.20.100.6444, built only for Windows 10 64 bit:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28148

Nothing really new apart from being built with a difference compiler and some auto-tuning bits. But its modern!

EDIT: These now shift the control centre to an app from the Windows Store and are mandatory for Windows 10 1809.

 

[DeathReborn]

Also known as WMD so lets hope they don't nuke your data a la Microsoft...

Shame that it's Skylake or newer, would have been nice to test on Haswell.

 

[VirtualLarry]

EDIT: These now shift the control centre to an app from the Windows Store and are mandatory for Windows 10 1809.

That's really just... great. Especially for those corporate PCs, that access to the Windows Store has been disabled via GPO, so as to prevent downloading games on company time.

 

[TheELF]

That's really just... great. Especially for those corporate PCs, that access to the Windows Store has been disabled via GPO, so as to prevent downloading games on company time.

I just downloaded and installed them,no need to open the store at all,the control panel shows up in your start menu and with windows search.

 

[VirtualLarry]

EDIT: These now shift the control centre to an app from the Windows Store and are mandatory for Windows 10 1809.

I just downloaded and installed them,no need to open the store at all,the control panel shows up in your start menu and with windows search.

Someone's mis-informed.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I just received a notice to update to the modern driver support assistant.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/intel-driver-support-assistant.html

 

[vailr]

Should be noted that this is only for Skylake and newer chipsets, such as: Z170/Z270/Z370/Z390, etc.

 

[BFG10K]

App store driver control panel? The metrosexual lock-down of PCs continues.

 

[escrow4]

Driver is fine but the modern app thingy doesn't work. Refuses to open and there are also frequent BEX64 errors for the Intel module. Seems like the 1809 update is required. Still Xvideos works just fine so meh.

 

[IntelUser2000]

Seems like the 1809 update is required.

Yes, the unified driver scheme is a part of Windows 10 October 2018 update. That is indeed 1809.

I'm on 1809 now. App works fine. No difference from the previous regular application.

App store driver control panel? The metrosexual lock-down of PCs continues.

More like Intel viewing GPUs like they did HD Audio. Lacking in features but stable.

 

[BFG10K]

More like Intel viewing GPUs like they did HD Audio. Lacking in features but stable.

The app store isn't stable, it's garbage. Just another part of Windows 10 trying to turn PC into phones locked down and controlled by Microsoft.

One recent example: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018...-to-getting-a-uwp-game-to-work-on-windows-10/

 

[ThatBuzzkiller]

It's a big bet since their starting from an entirely new graphics stack so applications relying on a behaviour from from legacy drivers might crop up possible issues ...

 

[escrow4]

Fixed the control centre app crash by forcing the 1809 updated although I'm still getting SGX service errors. Eh.