Intel Releases Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.5971 Beta

Intel has rolled out their latest graphics driver update for Arc A-Series and Intel Core Ultra with integrated Arc GPUs. You can now dive into the much-awaited “Black Myth: Wukong” with day-one support and enjoy smoother gameplay in “Hunt: Showdown 1896” and the upcoming “World of Warcraft: The War Within” expansion. The update also tackles various stability concerns, including crashes and visual glitches in popular titles.

However, Intel’s latest driver isn’t without its caveats. Users may encounter hiccups in games like Doom Eternal and Uncharted, along with certain professional applications. Furthermore, the Arc Control software, although enhanced, still has a few lingering bugs. While not flawless, this driver release demonstrates Intel’s ongoing efforts to polish the Arc graphics experience, and while they’re still not the competition to AMD or Nvidia we had hoped for, at least they’re still pushing forwards.

Game Ready

• Black Myth: Wukong
• Hunt: Showdown 1896
• World of Warcraft: The War Within

Fixed Issues
Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• Delta Force: Hawk Ops Alpha Playtest (DX12) may experience application instability during gameplay.
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider (DX11) may exhibit corruption on foliage during gameplay.

Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

• Force of Warships (DX11) may experience texture corruption during gameplay

Known Issues
Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• Doom Eternal (VK) may exhibit intermittent flickering corruption in the game menu and during gameplay.
• Blender may experience application crash while rendering certain benchmark scenes.
• Topaz Video AI may experience errors when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements.

Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

• Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may experience an application crash on loading to gameplay.
• Enshrouded (VK) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
• Diablo IV (DX12) may experience an application crash with ray tracing settings enabled.
• Fortnite (DX12) game may crash while performing Alt + Tab operations
• SPECworkstation3.1 may exhibit system instability while running certain workloads.
• CATIA texts may not appear in quality toolbar with HQAO settings
• Procyon AI may experience an application crash while running benchmark with precision float32.

Intel Arc Control Fixed Issues

• Arc Control Studio capture recording file may become corrupted when the mouse cursor is enabled during HDR capture.
• Arc Control may experience corruption in studio camera preview while changing settings from style transfer effects.

Intel Arc Control Known Issues

• Schedule Updates for Drivers may not work intermittently.
• Arc Control Studio capture or stream may not stop intermittently when using the stop option. A workaround is to use Exit app option in Settings to stop the recording.