All the Arc GPUs have officially received support for Intel's latest Multi-Frame Generation with the new driver update.
Intel Rolls Out Graphics Driver 8509, Supporting XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation on Intel Arc Alchemist and Battlemage dGPUs and iGPUs
Intel's latest XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation, which was initially launched for Panther Lake processors/iGPUs, has now been rolled out for previous-gen GPUs as well. As promised recently, Intel has today launched its latest Arc Graphics driver for Windows version 32.0.101.8509, which brings support for XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation for both Alchemist and Battlemage families.
As listed in the release notes, the XeSS 3 MFG will now enjoy an extended platform support and will work on both Arc Alchemist and Arc Battlemage discrete and integrated graphics. This means users, even with Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake, and Lunar Lake processors, will be able to turn on the XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation on their integrated graphics. The discrete GPU lineups, including the Arc Alchemist and Arc Battlemage families, will now be able to bring higher FPS in games through the MFG tech, which introduces three fake frames between every two rendered frames.
XeSS 3: Multi-Frame Generation Extended Platform Support
This release extends support beyond the Intel® Arc™ GPUs in Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 listed products to include:
- Intel Arc B-Series discrete GPUs (Codename Battlemage)
- Intel Arc A-Series discrete GPUs (Codename Alchemist)
- Intel Arc GPUs in Intel Core Ultra 2 series processors (Codename Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake H)
- Intel Arc GPUs in Intel Core™ Ultra processors (Codename Meteor Lake)
Fixed Issues:
Intel Core Ultra Series 3 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
- Ghost of Tsushima (DX12) may exhibit color corruption on terrains during gameplay.
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (DX11) may experience an application crash during game launch.
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
- Ghost of Tsushima (DX12) may exhibit color corruption on terrains during gameplay.
- GPU 3D utilization in Task Manager may show inconsistent metrics.
Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
- Ghost of Tsushima (DX12) may exhibit color corruption on terrains during gameplay.
- GPU 3D utilization in Task Manager may exhibit inconsistent metrics.
Known Issues:
Intel Core Ultra Series 3 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
- John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
- Naraka Bladepoint (DX12) may experience an application crash with Ray Tracing settings enabled.
- The Finals (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash.
- No Man’s Sky (VK) may exhibit corruptions on certain terrains during gameplay.
- Star Citizen (VK) may experience an application crash on game launch.
- PUBG: Battlegrounds (DX12) may exhibit intermittent flickers in the game menu.
- Mafia: The Old Country (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
- Topaz Video AI may experience visual artifacts when using certain AI models.
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
- John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando* (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay. Recommendation is to use Intel Arc Graphics Driver 32.0.101.8331 or older.
- Naraka Bladepoint (DX12) may experience an application crash with Ray Tracing settings enabled.
- Call of Duty Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruptions on certain water surfaces during gameplay.
- Dune: Awakening (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruptions during gameplay.
- Star Citizen (VK) may experience an application crash on game launch.
- PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio may experience an intermittent application crash while running the benchmark. Recommendation is to change the timeout slider to 1500 seconds or higher, to wait for each test to complete, in PugetBench* benchmark settings.
Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:
- PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio may experience an intermittent application crash while running the benchmark. Recommendation is to change the timeout slider to 1500 seconds or higher, to wait for each test to complete, in PugetBench* benchmark settings.
Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
- Battlefield 6 (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruptions on certain maps during gameplay.
Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
- John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay. Recommendation is to use Intel Arc Graphics Driver 32.0.101.8331 or older.
- Call of Duty Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruptions on certain water surfaces during gameplay.
- Battlefield 6 (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruptions on certain maps during gameplay on some notebooks with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs.
- No Man’s Sky (VK) may exhibit corruptions on certain terrains during gameplay.
- Topaz Video AI* may experience visual artifacts when using certain AI models.
Intel Graphics Software Fixed Issues:
- Combined Display may intermittently not function as expected while combining displays or resetting settings.
Intel Graphics Software Known Issues:
- 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.
- Intel Graphics Software may sometimes experience an application crash while navigating between pages using keyboard.
Previously, Intel MFG could only work on Panther Lake CPUs, which ship with Xe3-based integrated graphics, but some users made MFG work even on previous-gen GPUs such as Battlemage and Alchemist using workarounds. These workarounds usually involved copy-pasting DLL files from one folder to another in one of the previous Intel Graphics drivers.
The XeSS 3 worked flawlessly with such workarounds, almost tripling frame rates even with entry-level GPUs like Arc A380 in games like Cyberpunk 2077. With 4X mode, the MFG does bring noticeable input lag, but with 2X-3X modes, input lag is also minimal and modern intensive titles are more enjoyable.
News Source: Intel
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