Windows 7 x64 support for Intel GMA 3650 (or GMA 3600)

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EVRICA!

search google for "GFX_Vista_Win7_64_8.15.8.1050_Beta5". tested on Acer Aspire One D270-26Dkk with Intel atom N2600, 4Gb DDR3 A-data 1333Mhz, under windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

Good luck!

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you can force the driver to install editing the .inf file, in this particular case: igdlh64.inf

1. from device manager (Run -> DevMgmt.msc) right click and copy the Hardware ID of the display adapter
2. insert it (in my case PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0BE1; you can keep the substring if you want/have it - this is enough to corectly identify the vga onboard) in the [Intel.Mfg.NTamd64] section of the .inf file replacing one, any or even all the existing hardware_IDs, so you will be able to try all the drivers for all the supported boards.
3. replace the mames that will appear after identification with your own in order to be able to test them one by one in the section ; ; Localizable Strings ;
4. manually install the drivers one by one, then restart, and try the next one (this is why you need to give them different names at the end of the .inf file)

if the driver is working with your board, you will see in DevMgmt.msc the message "This device is working properly" otherwise, you will get a 43 code - device was shut down by windows.

good luck trying any driver!

NB: under a 64bit OS, you need x64 drivers for a hardware. you may try to use a virtual machine with win32 installed, but.. what`s the point?

Sorry to give you the bad news, folks!

The so-called "Intel" GMA3600 actually was NOT designed by Intel, but is instead a PowerVR SGV545 licensed from British-based Imagination Technologies (www.ingtec.com/).

While Intel Corporation makes its own graphics programming documentation freely available (https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation), Imagination Technologies considers its own programming documentation "Confidential Information" (a.k.a. military "Top Secret"). Imagination Technologies refuses to provide 64-bit drivers for its PowerVR graphics cores and is jealous of keeping its own documentation strictly under lock and key and of employing the long arm of the law to insist that its documentation remain Top Secret.

Plain and simple, folks. This is why Intel CANNOT produce drivers for the GMA3600 for ANY 64-bit operating system platform, whether it be Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, open-source Linux, you name it. Period.

It's not really an Intel GPU but an integrated/rebadged PowerVR SGX545, so Intel doesn't seem to have much control over it. They do not make 64-bit drivers for this GPU, and haven't made any plans to do so public.

I'm in the same boat. I'm using a Shuttle XS36V with that CPU, now as a low-power server. The same GPU (albeit slower clocked) was available in an older Atom, and there are still the same issues today with that 32-bit driver. I don't expect much here.

Intel recently released a "test" driver for x64 Windows.

Title: Intel® HD Graphics Test Driver for Windows 7 & Windows 8 64 (zip)

Date:09/24/2012

Version:15.28.6.64.2857

Operating Systems:Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows 8, 64-bit

Devices:

• 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics 3000/2000
• 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics 4000/2500

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21840

I know this post is old, but as Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 released after this post, I decide to test it on it and share my finding:

Win7 x64: Confirmed 2GB ram working, 4GB still testing

Win8.1 x64, win10 x64: all 2GB and 4GB ram lead to BSOD using GFX_Vista_Win7_64_8.15.8.1050

So, sad to say please just save your time to stick on Windows 7

FYR, tested on zotac zbox id15

Necro'ing this thread because of new info for better driver now available:

As the GMA 3600 etc is in fact a POWERVR SGX545 I did a site search of Imagination Technologies to see if they didn't perhaps have a better driver for the n2600. https://www.google.co.za/search?ei=-XjQW6TYN4mJgQbWlJGgAw&q=site%3Awww.imgtec.com+POWERVR+SGX545+windows+driver+download&oq=site%3Awww.imgtec.com+POWERVR+SGX545+windows+driver+download&gs_l=psy-ab.3...4379546.4392400.0.4393542.17.17.0.0.0.0.444.4784.3-13j1.14.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..3.0.0....0.Pjz8X781k0E

They didn't BUT: "...the big news for this release is the major upgrade of our PowerVR performance profiler, PVRTune Complete. We’re exposing more data than has been previously possible on mobile/embedded hardware, giving a major boost to your optimisation sessions..." https://www.imgtec.com/blog/powervr-tools-and-sdk-2018-release-1-now-available/

ie: The "military "Top Secret" data required to write a decent, optimized* driver now seems to be available!?

• Optimised:

  • DirectX10.1 API support
  • Enhanced support for DirectX10 Geometry Shaders
  • DirectX10 Data assembler support (Vertex, primitive and instance ID generation)
  • Render target resource array support
  • Full arbitrary non power of two texture support
  • Full filtering support for F16 texture types
  • Support for all DirectX10 mandated texture formats
  • Sampling from unresolved MSAA surfaces
  • Support for Gamma on output pixels
  • Order dependent coverage based AA (anti-aliased lines)
  • Enhanced line rasterisation

https://www.imgtec.com/news/press-release/imagination-technologies-announces-powervr-sgx545-graphics-ip-core-with-full-directx-10-1-opengl-3-2-and-opencl-1-0-capabilities/

I hope the info makes is way to a willing and able driver dev.