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 Original hosters are down or discontinued by now, though [http://www.guru3d.com/files-categories/videocard-drivers.html mirrors] [https://web.archive.org/web/20170212055625/http://donotargue.com/2014/03/20/dna-drivers-database/ are] [http://www.ngohq.com/?page=Files available]
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-''Thankfully'' Intel graphics is still so slow and buggy that compilations are a must. <br />Putting aside the famous '''[https://www.facebook.com/notes/intellimodder-32-gaming-drivers-for-intel/phdgd-driver-downloads-21217/1367085706644906/ intellimodder]''' ([https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2019/11/intel-modded-phdgd-driver.html old] [https://www.reddit.com/r/lowspecgamer/comments/7c84f4/phdgd_drivers/ mirrors], caution it screws with power plans), you have:
+''Thankfully'' Intel graphics is still so slow and buggy that compilations are a must. <br />Putting aside the famous '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160612013505/http://www.intellimodder32.com/download/ intellimodder]''' ([https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2019/11/intel-modded-phdgd-driver.html old] [https://old.reddit.com/r/lowspecgamer/comments/7c84f4/phdgd_drivers/ mirrors], caution it screws with power plans), you have:
 * <SM4.0 GMA: [https://www.facebook.com/groups/71161501714/permalink/10156865926406715/ Trixarian's Chell]
-* D3D10 GMA: [http://worldintelmoddriver.blogspot.com/ IncrediblE] (which is a modernized [https://teknogods.com/?p=966&author=10 Royal BNA]) or [https://www.tenforums.com/graphic-cards/152678-custom-driver-intel-gma-4500-m-mhd-extreme-plus-2-nighmayor.html Extreme Plus 2]
+* D3D10 GMA: [http://worldintelmoddriver.blogspot.com/ IncrediblE] (which is a modernized [https://teknogods.com/?p=966&author=10 Royal BNA]) or [https://www.tenforums.com/graphic-cards/130380-custom-driver-intel-gma-4500-mhd-extreme-plus-nighmayor.html Extreme Plus]
 * Embedded GMA: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130328164802/http://9xxssf.info/topic/1017-intel-embedded-graphics-driver-1040-release/ 9xx Soldiers Sans Frontier]
 * PowerVR GMA: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160510230128/www.intellimodder32.com/modded-drivers/gma-3600-windows-10-compatibility-fix/ W10 fix]
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 * <7th-gen (aka 3rd-gen HD graphics) on W10: <strike>[https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl/issues/119#issuecomment-262090230 fixed OGL] - [https://web.archive.org/web/20160319024837/http://leshcatlabs.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1120 updated sw OCL]</strike> [https://github.com/pal1000/save-legacy-intel-graphics here]
-For anything from Ivy Bridge and above instead (dx11 igps), really, don't bother. Some slight [https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3hjonw/psa_you_can_overclock_intel_hd_graphics_for/ overclocking] or setting Windows to high performance energy profile is the most optimization you can reasonably get.
+For anything from Ivy Bridge and above instead (dx11 igps), really, don't bother. Some slight [https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3hjonw/psa_you_can_overclock_intel_hd_graphics_for/ overclocking] or setting Windows to high performance energy profile is the most optimization you can reasonably get.
 <small>EDIT: in fact, I think I just now figured out the functioning basis of all the hacks that have ever been. Intel older igps were so shitty, that despite them having in-hardware support for some features (such as [https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/white-paper/vertex-processing-selection-capability-paper.pdf SM3.0] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110607033741/http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/common-misconceptions-of-intel-processor-graphics/ T&L]), you could actually get them offloaded to the cpu and ''increase'' your performance. Because whatever the obvious overhead this operation has, it was still faster than tasking the potato gpu with yet another operation (or maybe vertex processing is just straightaway quicker on a 200€ cpu of the time, compared to a 2€ graphics adapter).
-Anyway, for these reasons the driver has a registry whitelist codenamed "Enable3DContexts" (I don't even want to think instead to that can of software worms Gen3 was). In my testing with a X4500 and the latest [https://web.archive.org/web/20160608190242/http://downloadmirror.intel.com/22166/a08/Win7Vista_64_151719.zip 2869] stock drivers, I found out that after [http://trixarian.net/reg_modders.zip setting] Mass Effect exe to ''1'', frametimes improved by more than 10% (benchmarks and a bunch of newer applications seemed to have the mysterious value of ''2'' OOTB, mileage may vary on what's the best one).
+Anyway, for these reasons the driver has a registry whitelist codenamed "Enable3DContexts" (I don't even want to think instead to that can of software worms Gen3 was). In my testing with a X4500 and the latest [https://web.archive.org/web/20160608190242/http://downloadmirror.intel.com/22166/a08/Win7Vista_64_151719.zip 2869] stock drivers, I found out that after [http://trixarian.net/reg_modders.zip setting] Mass Effect exe to ''1'', frametimes improved by more than 10% (benchmarks and a bunch of newer applications seemed to have the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130411234401/http://9xxssf.info/topic/33-igrm/ mysterious] value of ''2'' OOTB, mileage may vary on what's the best one).
 Once accounted for that, there was no other difference in ME1 and HL2 across all the 4 modded drivers. [http://brenton.nom.za/forum/showthread.php?tid=18&pid=133 DODSQE] maybe is the only other thing with a possible 3D speed impact, but I couldn't confirm.