New Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 firmware update is aimed at fixing screen flickering issues

Himanshu, 03 November, 2015

Microsoft has started rolling out a new firmware update to the recently-released Surface Book laptop and Surface Pro 4 tablet. The "System Firmware Update – 11/2/2015" brings several improvements and fixes, including the one for screen flickering issue.

As per the change log, the HD Graphics 520 driver (v20.19.15.4308) has been updated to fix the flickering issues, and the display audio driver (v8.20.0.659) has been updated to make it compatible with the updated graphics driver.

In addition, the Surface Embedded Controller Firmware for both devices has been updated to improve system stability, while the Surface Pen Settings driver now includes support for future functionality on Windows 10. Separately for the Surface Book, Surface System Aggregator Firmware has been updated to improve the keyboard and trackpad experience.

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Reader comments

Nick
04 Nov 2015
jnG

For some people (including my wife) the deal breaker is the screen size. Not the keyboard. I know they are close but for some people it matters.

AnonD-447398
04 Nov 2015
PGk

The Surface Book has performance that utterly demolishes its competition. Seriously, 16 gigs of RAM in a body similar to that of an ultraportable? It's a monster and I for one am glad that Microsoft is doing everything in its power to polish it to pe...

AnonD-375420
03 Nov 2015
LaD

surface book its just for those who type a lot and take advantage of that little better keyboard but for the rest...it's not a great product like is the surface pro 4, the new keyboard for the Surface pro 4 is just so close to the surface book that...