Intel's Day-0 Driver Updates Now Limited to Xe-based iGPUs and Graphics Cards

[Fouquin]

No, that's Extended or Long Term support. EOL is... the end of support altogether.
And even by your definition, what Intel is doing here is not "EOL" since apart from security updates they will receive critical updates, as in "the iGPU is not working in Win12, here's a driver to fix it". This is written in the OP.

You put a lot of faith in Intel justifying future software incompatibility as "critical" when they have still not fixed issues in current software compatibility before making this announcement.

 

[ncrs]

You put a lot of faith in Intel justifying future software incompatibility as "critical" when they have still not fixed issues in current software compatibility before making this announcement.

I am expecting "hardware is not working in a new OS version" to be classified as "critical" and fixed. I am also expecting that issues like "FIFA 2025 not displaying a texture on Skylake iGPUs" will not be fixed.

 

[Dr. Dro]

498 days since the release of the last Comet Lake CPU with UHD Graphics. Intel beat AMD in the category of: "Shortest time from release to EOL of an in-production SKU." AMD's previous best was around 550 days.

This may sound funny, but AMD still produces A8 series processors. I've even seen one that has a newer manufacturing week/year than my 5950X, and the driver support for these has already expired(!). I guess the intended market probably does not care as much as we do

 

[GoldenX]

Oh this will be hell for emulation...
Welp, time to update Intel's "unsupported hardware" list again in the minimum requirements.

 

[TheUn4seen]

Seems that way. You can work around this issue by downloading the Dell drivers, for example older <Gen12 or newer >=Gen12. If you open the .exe in 7-zip you'll get the Appx folder which contains the control panel shipped with all dependencies, which do not require working Windows Store to install.

Thank you, but it still tries to install *.appxbundle and *.appx files which require a working, or at least existing, Microsoft Store. So, f* Intel.

 

[eidairaman1]

My guess, there're in the same boat as amd with their gpu arcs. TGL and ICL brought a new gpu arch, and with the "recent" launch of Arc. It'd behove intel to fully concentrate on the latest arch iteration.
Same as amd, gcn isn't anymore their priority, Rdna is

Until the first RDNA APU is launched gcn will continue to be supported, FYi they released a GCN driver recently

 

[ModEl4]

Until the first RDNA APU is launched gcn will continue to be supported, FYi they released a GCN driver recently

That's not enough.
5700G/5600G launched in 5th of August 2021 at DIY channel, they should support it with adrenaline drivers for 5 years imo (Q3 2026) although this is utopian of course!
In a pessimistic scenario, probably Nvidia will discontinue Maxwell 1&2 game-ready status in one year from now and at the same time AMD will shift focus also leaving behind GCN4.0/GCN5.0 architectures.(just only 2 years after the 5700G/5600G DIY launch)

 

[Frick]

i would if they were but capable of any serious gaming at all ...

Rimworld, Aurora, Dwarf Fortress, Civilization 6 and Disco Elysium are all fairly serious games and can be played on almost aything...

 

[Mussels]

This doesn't seem odd, older IGP's wont benefit from the newer updates anyway


With the REBAR performance issues, could you even run one of their new GPU's on an older platform to have concerns about mixing old + new drivers in the first place? (This happens with AMD and nvidia, I cant mix a GT 710 and my 3090, they need different drivers)