Configuration on an I3 laptop

[abdo123]

Why downloading an Intel driver from www.guru3d.com instead of from www.intel.com?

According to my exp, driver update does not increase performance. I've been using Intel, Nvidia, ATI, VIA, and SiS video cards. None of them increases performance after a driver update.

really !

i have noticed sometimes slowdowns and speedups with different ATI drivers

even once running Catylast got me a slowdown

[limbo87]

Well I feel an idiot for the GPU-Z dump, didn't notice it failed to record any information at all. Suppose I should expect that with integrated graphics.
I'll try those drivers since my current ones were the latest only from my Laptop brand (Packard Bell) rather than the standard Intel drivers

As for the hack for 3 cores, I got cores and threads mixed up but if it's not doing any harm I'll stick with it.
Will also try 8-bit but with two logical cores already maxed during gameplay I don't expect much difference.

Thank you for all the help