Intel HD 630 with Windows 7

[ymom2]

Intel and Microsoft have artificially ended support for Windows 7 with the Kaby Lake processors. I want to be able to use the iGPU graphics to run a second monitor while I am playing video games with my graphics card. This is impossible on windows 7 without a functioning driver.

I was wondering how difficult it would be for a modder to modify the windows 10 driver to work on Windows 7. Is this something easy enough to do that a community of modders could easily do it? I know that the linux people make their own drivers and Windows 7 should absolutely work with Intel HD 630 but perhaps it is more difficult to do in windows because of how windows is proprietary.

If people think that this is something easily done by modders can you point me in the direction of Intel graphics driver modder communities?

Thanks,
Ben

 

[Supernova1138]

Just run your second monitor on your graphics card. The performance loss from running a secondary display on the same GPU while gaming is absolutely minimal, maybe a 1FPS difference at most. About the only reason you'd need your onboard graphics is if you wanted to run more than 4 monitors, in which case you could use the extra outputs on your motherboard for those.

 

[ymom2]

@Supernova1138
Well, the problem is that when I click on the second monitor the game closes. Do you know of a way to stop this from happening?

 

[Supernova1138]

Try running your game in exclusive fullscreen mode if the game options offer it, that will prevent your cursor from leaving the game. A lot of games will automatically minimize if something outside of it is clicked on, regardless of what screen it's on and how the screen is connected.

 

[ymom2]

Alright, thanks for the tips. This really frustrates me because it would be really cool to do things like watch youtube videos without taxing the main graphics card. I still hope that modders can come up with some sort of solution to force the HD Graphics chip to work with Window 7.