SATA II is not supported on the Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset. Data transfer rate of 300MB/s is supported on desktop chipset only. If you are interested in additional information check here (on page 35).
Quoting - Hi all, as you can read from, a new Intel driver for Vista enable OpenGL 2.0 support. I don't have Vista (I have XP professional) so I cannot test it (OpenGL 2.0 shading language). Can someone test this new driver with this Application? Thank you. Delle Anyone know which Intel IGP's now officially support OpenGL 2.0 under these new drivers? I believe only the GMA X3500 and the GMA X4500 family haveconsistentlybeen marketed as having hardware OpenGL 2.0 support.
Intel 945 Driver
While the GMA X3100 was originally advertised as only having OpenGL 1.5, which is what is still written in the GM965 datasheet , recent presentations have said that OpenGL 2.0 support is coming for the GMA X3100 too. The release notes for OpenGL 2.0 drivers aren't very descriptive since they explicitly say the G31, G33, Q33, and Q35 don't support OpenGL 2.0, which makes sense, but if that is meant to imply that every other IGP in the driver supports OpenGL 2.0, that would indicate that the 946GZ, which the driver supports, would be capable of OpenGL 2.0 which seems unlikely. I would guess that the GMA X3500, and X4500 series are now OpenGL 2.0 capable and possibly the GMA X3100 too. What about the GMA X3000?
An official list of supported IGPs would be nice. I agree: OpenGL capabilities are not consistently presented throughout intel's documentation. In addition there's a slide no. 5 which announces OpenGL 2.0 for G35 (X3500), GM965 (X3100): Which is also mentioned. It does say G33 (GMA 3100) will be at OpenGL 1.4, which is consistent with recent driver release notes.
But again doesn't say anything about G965 (X3000). Anyway: At least for the GM965 (X3100) I'm sure it does support OpenGL 2.0 except the Shading Language telling from the latest v15.11.4 driver: From the list of 6 OpenGL demos contained in GPU Caps Viewer only these work:. Point Sprite Particles. Vertex Displacement Mapping. Cel-Shading The 'Fur Rendering' Stability Test doesn't start as well.
Intel doesn't suppor t the GLSL (GL shading language) in Hardware (yet). Now if you don't do GLSL in hardware, then supporting OpenGL =2.0 doesn't become a major problem even for very old chipsets. The additions to OpenGL itself are minor and can be derived from adjusting your hardware accel to a new version of the OpenGL reference implementation.
This results in the current Linux driver at for Gen4/5 being actually ahead of the Windows driver in terms of compatibility. Since the Linux driver supports OpenGL 2.1: OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM GEM 20080716 x86/MMX/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.3-devel OpenGL shading language version string: 1.10 However OpenGL performance of the Windows driver is ahead of the Linux Mesa derived one. I don't have a Windows Linux comparison.
Intel 945gm Chipset Driver
But I've a Linux Ubuntu 8.10 vs. Mac OS 10.5.x one for the intel mobile 945 chipset. Nexuiz and Urban Terror are Quake engine derived games and facilitate the OpenGL stack.
Intel 945 Express Chipset Driver
This driver package will install drivers for Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset Family for the Windows 7 64-bit operating system. This driver is also compatible with the following products: Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset Family Intel Q35 Express Chipset Intel Q33 Express Chipset Intel G35 Express Chipset Intel G33 Express Chipset Intel G31 Express Chipset Intel 82Q965 Graphics and Memory Controller Hub GMCH Intel 82Q963 Graphics and Memory Controller Hub GMCH Intel 82G965 Graphics and Memory Controller Hub GMCH Intel 82946GZ Graphics Controller Intel 82945G Express Chipset.