[cjensen]

Worth noting: Skylake and Kaby Lake have been horror shows for Intel Integrated GPUs driver crashes. To add to this, some paths (like DXVA) are actually slower than Haswell.

I wonder how much of this is a fix for GPU reliability rather than GPU performance.

[craftyguy]

> Skylake and Kaby Lake have been horror shows for Intel Integrated GPUs driver crashes

My experience with Intel iGPUs on skylake and kaby lake is quite different. They work very well on Linux.

[cjensen]

I guess I should have clarified: Win7

[minikites]

Skylake and Kaby Lake aren't supported by Windows 7: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/micro...

[cjensen]

Skylake is supported, as mentioned in the article you linked to.

Kaby Lake's GPU is not a change from Skylake, so I expect the same problems, just in Win10 instead of 7.

[minikites]

>only security fixes for Skylake systems running Windows 7 and 8.1

I don't think a security fix is going to address your GPU issues. You should update to a supported operating system.

[cjensen]

It's only been two months since the last Intel driver was released in Windows Update on Win7. The GPU is supported just fine thanks.

Also, we build systems which run our application suite controlled by a custom control panel, and we have yet to manage to fully tame Win10's intrusiveness into the operator's workflow. Even if we do fully tame it, maybe the next version will change the number of things needing tamed. I'd use Windows Server instead, but it isn't supported by ASUS on desktop motherboards. We're in a dead end and seriously thinking about Linux at this point.