

Intel says it will begin rolling out these changes to Drivers and Support Assistant tool later today. If you notice performance issues or platform-specific problems after replacing the drivers, Intel recommends reverting to OEM drivers.

While this eliminates the validation required by OEM, Intel warns that forcing their vanilla generic drivers might lead to problems on some devices. There, I responded to a lot of those that Intel had placed iGPU driver support for all 4th- and 5th-Generation CPUs into 'Legacy' status back in 2018. So what does this mean for you? Simple: You’ll be able to download the installer of GPU drivers from Intel and update your graphics drivers without worrying about customizations. Search the forums for 'Intel', '4th', '5th' and 'Generation.' You will see posts by me with regards to legacy support and end of support by the hardware manufacturer (Intel) itself. Navigate to folder where you extracted the Intel beta drivers.You must go into. OEM customizations are preserved during this upgrade process, in accordance with Microsoft’s DCH driver design principles,” Intel noted. Select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer. “Graphics Driver Smart Installer Enhancement allows end-users to upgrade systems with OEM DCH drivers to newer Intel generic DCH drivers.

You can also try to install the driver again by downloading the specific driver from Download Center. In other words, you no longer need to wait for OEM to release new drivers and you should be to install them from Intel’s website if there are no other restrictions. Open and run Intel DSA to scan for the latest driver.
