Out of Luck with Intel HD and windows 10 ???

[Xtergo]

My trusty old core i3 330M laptop has served me faithfully for 4 years now, even though people underestimate the first gen processors there is not a big difference between raw processing power only the internal graphics. The Intel HD I have used with it was enough to play Minecraft and that was all i expected from Integrated graphics.

It ran on windows 7 very well and when I upgraded it to windows 10 boom, Intel has stopped making drivers for it, however I came across a guide that tells how to install windows 7 version of the driver on 10.

I can now no longer find any kind of Windows 7 drivers for The first gen intel processor or maybe intel's download page is too confusing for me. (Zip needed)

Is there any thing that can be done ? or am I screwed, I think its a big waste of money to upgrade to a newer laptop just for the integrated graphics that mostly does email and powerpoint.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Windows update should provide iGPU drivers for that. I've upgraded many systems with older graphics, some of which are older Intel motherboard integrated graphics, that it automatically found and installed drivers for when I couldn't find any model specific Win10 drivers through the manufacturer.

What is your laptop model number?

 

[Xtergo]

Yes to some extent, but the driver that has been given is only capable of desktop stuff like surfing the web and power point, when it comes to games it just simply fails reporting issues related to the graphics driver (All of them say: Open GL not found) I went into device manager checked everything is upto date but i think the drivers are "incomplete". They don't do much.
Intel has also confirmed that they wont bother giving an update to 1st and some early 2nd gen graphics.

Should i get a copy of windows 7 installed and get the driver from it to windows 10 ? I just cant find them on their website.

 

[Darkbreeze]

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22521/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-Driver-Windows-7-64-Windows-Vista-64-exe-

 

[Xtergo]

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22521/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-Driver-Windows-7-64-Windows-Vista-64-exe-

Thankyou for helping me so much but isnt that something else ? I mean its the Graphics media accelerator while the i3 uses intel HD

 

[Darkbreeze]

This software driver package will install the Intel® HD Graphics driver for the Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics

Windows 7, 64bit

 

[Xtergo]

Thx man ill try it out

 

[Darkbreeze]

Hope it works. I would however, run the DDU in between driver version installations. Be sure to select the Intel option at the top of the page after selecting the "safe mode reboot".

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2767677/clean-graphics-driver-install-windows.html