Intel today released the latest version of the Arc GPU Graphics Drivers. Version 101.6795 Beta comes with optimization for “Dune: Awakening,” “Elden Ring Nightreign,” and “F1 25.” The drivers also improve performance of Arc B-series “Battlemage” discrete GPUs in “Monster Hunter Wilds,” with up to 9% seen at 1080p and 6% seen at 1440p. The drivers don’t fix any game-specific, application-specific, or Graphics Software-specific bugs with this release, but identified a few new issues that it added to its “Known Issues” list, and will release fixes for in future releases. Grab the drivers from the link below.
DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6795 Beta
Gaming
Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs for:
- Dune: Awakening
- Elden Ring Nightreign
- F1 25
Game performance improvements on Intel Arc B-series Graphics GPUs versus Intel 32.0.101.6793 software driver for:
- Monster Hunter Wilds (DX12)
- Up to 9% average FPS uplift at 1080p
- Up to 6% average FPS uplift at 1440p
Known Issues
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruption in certain scenes during gameplay.
- Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with ray tracing settings turned on.
- Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (DX12) may exhibit corruptions on water areas in certain scenarios.
- MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. It is recommended to disable integrated GPU as a workaround.
- SPECapc for Maya 2024 may experience intermittent application freeze during benchmark.
- PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.
Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:
- Overwatch 2 (DX12) may experience an application crash while launching game with High or Ultra graphics quality settings.
- Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with ray tracing settings turned on.
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (DX12) may experience an application crash with ray tracing and XeSS enabled.
- PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.
Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
- PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.
Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
- Blender 4.4 may fail to complete rendering while using Cycles render engine.
- Adobe Premiere Pro may experience an intermittent application crash.
- PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.
Intel Graphics Software Known Issues:
- Intel Graphics Software may experience a very intermittent application crash when navigating pages or dialogue boxes due to an underlying framework issue. A fix will be made available in IGS once WinAppSDK 1.7 is available for upgrade. The application can be re-launched without issue as a workaround.
- When using the settings, preferences, reset all settings option in Windows 10 the application may experience an intermittent crash. Settings can be reset from individual pages without issue.
- Intel Graphics Software may sometimes experience a single application crash on the first re-arrange of metrics within the select metrics window. Subsequent usage will not be affected by this crash again.
- FPS Limiter may not limit FPS with VSync ON and Low Latency Mode enabled.
- Profile controls may not always supersede global controls.
- Display scaling at non-native panel resolutions might result in unintended scaling.
- Intel Graphics Software may experience an application crash while navigating between application profiles in the Profiles page
