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Intel HD 4000 Users

keogh

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Howdy,

I've got Bootcamp running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on my Mac Mini, the spec of my Mac mini is:

- 2.3GHz i7
- 16GB RAM
- 512GB Crucial M4 SSD
- Intel HD 4000
- Running it through a 27" iMac display @ 2560x1440

The problem I am noticing with the HD 4000 (well I'm pretty sure its that) is its quite laggy in Windows 7 desktop? I don't play games on my PC so I have no interest in that, its just merely the Windows 7 desktop experience.

Everything feels just sluggish, the best example is to open up a window (Chrome, Firefox, Windows explorer etc) and just resize it quite fast and I just see lag and ghosting around the window as it resizes.

Also minimising and maximising some windows just lag a bit, does anyone else experience this with the Intel HD 4000? Does it feel snappy to you?

I'm guessing its a driver issue more than anything, cos it can't be that bad just in Windows desktop surely? I'm not expecting the world, just a responsive desktop is all I ask.

If anyone could shed some light on their experience that would be great

ta
 
I am using the HD 4000 on my i5 3570k as my card has been sent back. Can't say I have noticed the same as you but I will have a look in a bit a do the specific things you have mentioned and let you know.
 
Nice one cheers, just resize windows, minimise/maximise windows and see if it just lags.

It does it when resizing windows fast mainly, if its happening you will notice the lag.

It's like when you resize, the contents lag expanding to the border so you get an ugly ghosting/stretch effect.

I even set my resolution down to 1024x768 to see if it was the 2560x1440 res causing it, but it still did it.

Let me know your results.
 
Just messed around with loads of windows full of photo thumbnails and I haven't noticed any difference to when my card was in. I have set the available memory for the HD 4000 to 256mb in the bios. It was defaulting at 64mb. Not sure if that will make any difference?

No idea if the CPU the HD 4000 is attached to makes a difference or if it is OC'd. I am at 4.4 from 3.4?

First time I have used the HD 4000 as always had a card.
 
I have that exact problem when I do not have drivers installed for my 7970. I have my windows res set top 1400p so I get a picture with exactl those symptons. Has the driver installed correctly? Are you using the correct drivers? Try and bring up CCC just to check.
 
oldestgregg said:
I have that exact problem when I do not have drivers installed for my 7970. I have my windows res set top 1400p so I get a picture with exactl those symptons. Has the driver installed correctly? Are you using the correct drivers? Try and bring up CCC just to check.
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catalyst control center wont be any use when using intel, but i agree that checking the intel website for drivers is something you should probably do

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...4000/2500&ProdId=3498&LineId=1100&FamilyId=39
 
No lag on my Acer S3-391 Ultrabook, it has a Core i5 3317 which incorporates the HD4000 solution
 
Have you tried lowering resolution?

I'm on a PC rather than a mac and had no problems but max resolution used was 1920x1080. I suspect most of the above posters didn't notice/ignored the resolution mentioned in your first post.

I can't comment on HD4000 performance at 2560x1440 as I've never tried it. Wouldn't be suprised if it was s*** :-D
 
The Retina Macbook Pros use HD4000 and power there screens fine. Other Macs run 1440p fine, even HD3000 ran 2 x 1440p monitors fine for me. I'd take a look at drivers.
 
ah, just noticed the resolution you're trying to run. my Ultrabook is a cheap one and decidedly not that high a res!
 
Yeah I've knocked the res down to 1024x768 to test and it still does it. It doesn't seem to have any other issues, just when resizing windows min/maxing windows it lags a bit. But the rest of windows feels fine

I can't see it being a bootcamp issue, I mean its running Windows naively on the hardware, bootcamp is essentially just a bunch of windows drivers I suppose. Also, I have zero problems in OS X, everything flies beautifully in there.

My 27" iMac with the ATi Radeon 5750 was faultless in Bootcamp, although that, even though old, was a dedicated card so prob quite different.

I'm kinda hoping its a driver issues, cos I have no option of lobbing a stand alone graphics card in a Mac mini.
 
Worth pointing out that I started out with windows update updating my driver to the latest and it was lagging. Then I reverted back to the drivers supplied in the Apple Bootcamp assistant, still lagged. Now I'm running the latest drivers direct from intel.com and still laggy.
 
the hardware is obviously fine because OSX works and of course there is nothing wrong with windows drivers on normal PCs. i suggest asking in the dedicated mac forum here or even other mac forums about bootcamp and your hardware. maybe there are some optimised drivers for it?? (haven't a clue myself - i know nowt about macs)
 
marc2003 said:
the hardware is obviously fine because OSX works and of course there is nothing wrong with windows drivers on normal PCs. i suggest asking in the dedicated mac forum here or even other mac forums about bootcamp and your hardware. maybe there are some optimised drivers for it?? (haven't a clue myself - i know nowt about macs)
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Yeah I've posted in several places, seems to either not be noticed by anyone or its only me :)
 
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