Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/85029-intel-bypasses-oem-locking-latest-gpu-drivers.html



Finally

Emphasis mine

 

Thank you intel,
for putting more pressure on AMD and Nvidia to release up to date drivers for their mobile GPUs.

 

Thank you intel,
for putting more pressure on AMD and Nvidia to release up to date drivers for their mobile GPUs. /forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

AMD did this a year ago I believe. Haven't touched a nVidia mobile device in a while but I don't believe they're restricted.

 

They've now all announced plans to provide "unlocked" drivers, but more competition here is good. AMD in particular was very slow in rolling out unlocked drivers for their APUs.
My hope is that Intel pushing regular updates for "10th gen" graphics will push AMD to better support Renoir mobile from day one.

 

Eh what? Does this apply only to laptops? Because I don't see when the desktop was ever locked to not be able to install a driver from Intel for their GPUs or other products. Even on Laptop it always worked fine in my case for Intel products.
I guess, don't buy locked junk is the lesson here.

And where is this damn lock supposed to be anyway? Just wipe any machine clean and get rid of the OEM preinstall junk first that way. Are they going to great lengths to lock it via UEFI somehow?
You can always install drivers, it's only a matter of how determined you are to do so. There have been various locks even on NV drivers in the past but it's often just a simple setup/driver configuration file that gets checked if the hardware is listed as officially supported.

The drivers for laptops and PC mobos on manufacturer pages are often outdated and not even worth bothering. All they love to do so is reupload an old version they "verified".

 

I have never used intel integrated GPU for anything other than simple daily tasks (laptops) or just running the computer itself (any GPU would do, It only needs to boot some commandline tools).

Usually I just install intel drivers once and forget about them.
I never demanded any real performance from those integrated GPU's.

 

Even on the desktop some manufacturers restrict graphics drivers. Mostly on business machines.
Of course, there are/were ways around these locks.



Intel actually plans to be performance competitive with their next gen integrated graphics, which means having updated graphics actually matters now.

Why was there ever a thing? OEM drivers and driver managers are almost universally terrible.

Probably because HP/Dell/Lenovo don't want 1,000,000 customers complaining about blue screens after they update one of the most complicated driver packages a modern OS has to deal with. Not saying it's the right choice, but that's probably what they were thinking. Better it works(poorly) than it have the potential to not work at all, or remove a feature the OEMs huge bloat package somehow relies on.

Nowadays pretty much everything auto-updates, so holding back an update is more risky than ever. If windows forces a feature update and you are still running a driver that's a year+ old things could end up broken.

 

Why was there ever a thing? OEM drivers and driver managers are almost universally terrible.

 

You answered your own question. You notice you used the word "Almost"?
In that quailier lies the range that can make al the difference in the world in some apps.

Intel IGpu's are garbage but they can manage some tasks (barely) if the driver is tweaked.

Also on my laptop the HDMI sound passthrough does not work on the drivers from Asus but do on the Intel drivers.
Chip manufacturers release fixes that the OEMs do not always update into their releases.
I had a real tough time getting the Intel release to install and now I know why.

 

wait, hasn't NV been doing almost the opposite recently? tricking people into downloading MS store drivers n stuff

 

finally using those security holes for some good!

 

No wonder I could update my Razer without a hitch.
I had to do gymnastics every time I ran an update.

 

The first time I hit the restriction I did not know what was going on. I buy laptops every 10 years so my previous one had nothing of the sort.

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First time I ran into this was 2011, work around was to uninstall the OEM driver. Use device manager to set the iGPU to use Windows Basic Display driver then install the latest from Intel's site. Now I no longer have to worry about using this workaround with supported iGPUs.