Intel has released its latest Arc BETA GPU driver which continues the tradition of bringing huge performance uplifts while adding new game support.
You Can Get Up To 34% Better Performance With The Latest Intel Arc GPU Drivers, Also Get Support For Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Intel has been optimizing and fixing its software ecosystem since the release of the Arc GPUs. The last update saw up to a massive 750% improvement in games and this time, we are getting up to 34% performance improvement in a range of DX12 and FX11 titles. The driver also brings a range of fixes to various games which can be seen in the release notes at the end of this post.
The major highlight of today's release is the addition of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora to the support list which gets an 8% average FPS improvement at 1080p when running on the latest Arc A-Series graphics cards. You can find the latest BETA 31.0.101.5074 driver release for download on this link.
Gaming Highlights:
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Game performance improvements versus Intel 31.0.101.4972 software driver for:
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (DX12)
- Up to 8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Battlefield V (DX11)
- Up to 23% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Crossout (DX11)
- Up to 5% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings
- Dishonored 2 (DX11)
- Up to 16% average FPS uplift at 4K with Ultra settings
- Dying Light 2 Stay Human (DX11)
- Up to 31% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings
- Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition (DX11)
- Up to 12% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Highest settings
- For Honor (DX11)
- Up to 14% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Extreme settings
- Phasmophobia (DX11)
- Up to 5% average FPS uplift at 1440p with High settings
- Train Sim World 3 (DX11)
- Up to 34% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Fixed Issues
- Total War: PHARAOH (DX11) may exhibit corruption after changing the resolution in the game on certain displays.
- Alan Wake (DX9) may experience an application crash when starting a new game.
- Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12) may exhibit colorful pixel corruption during gameplay.
- Counter-Strike 2 (DX11) may exhibit flickering pixels during gameplay with Multisampling Anti-Aliasing Mode set to 4X MSAA.
- Ghostrunner 2 (DX11) may experience sporadic application crashes during gameplay.
- Far Cry 3 (DX11) may experience application crashes during gameplay.
Known Issues
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- Fortnite (DX12) may exhibit line corruption during gameplay with certain Anti-Aliasing settings.
- Dead by Daylight (DX11) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
- Topaz Video AI may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement.
Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics Products:
- Driver installation may not be completed successfully on certain notebook systems with both Intel Iris Xe + Iris Xe MAX devices. A system reboot and re-installation of the graphics driver may be required for successful installation.
Intel Core Processor (12th-14th Generation) Products:
- Dragon Quest X Online (DX9) may experience sporadic application crashes during gameplay.
Intel Arc Control Known Issues
- Using Arc Control Studio capture with certain games may incorrectly generate multiple video files.
- The "Connector" type on the Display page may incorrectly show DP when using an HDMI display connection.
- May observe the "stream has already ended" pop-up after the power events with the Capture/Highlights/Broadcast toggle on.
- Arc Control may not retain overall application settings in Overlay mode after the system reboot. A workaround is to use the Desktop mode of Arc Control.
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