Intel GMA 3600 Windows 7 Driver in Windows 10Īfter loading Windows 10 on my Samsung netbook as I expected it defaulted to the Microsoft Basic driver which meant it had to run with a resolution of 800×600 and of course with no brightness control. It’s been over a year now and thanks to those queries I’ve decided to revisit that decision. Knowing very well the problems I had faced with Windows 8.1 I decided not to take up the offer. Flash forward to 2015 and Microsoft is all up on our desktop’s paining us to upgrade to their new OS – Windows 10. The new UI was enough of a reason to downgrade then. With Linux it was expected but when it showed issues with Windows 8/8.1 I wasted no time getting back to Windows 7. Contrary to expectations, that is as you would have with other similar graphic chips, this one became quite problematic in running anything else other than Windows 7. The chip was designed for the Windows 7 system, and particularly the 32-bit variant, though the atom chip it’s paired with is 64-bit capable. On that post I didn’t touch on Windows because I was fully aware the problem was much complicated on that end. Some months ago I wrote a post on how to fix the low resolution of the chip on Linux systems, and to be specific, on Arch-based distros.
So of late I’ve been getting some hits with the Intel GMA 3600 and I know exactly why.
