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More Performance Improvements For Intel Arc In Latest Drivers

Intel is still working hard to provide updates to its GPUs and once again the latest driver update has provided a plethora of performance improvements for a wide selection of games and provided game-on driver support for two.

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Starting with Game-On Driver support, Last Epoch is a top down dungeon crawling RPG that released on the 21st of February, this game is now supported by Intel’s drivers. Sea of Thieves recently received an update for DX12 support and these latest drivers ensure that Arc GPUs are ready to take on the seas.

Going onto game performance, most of these improvements come at 1080p and Medium settings across several DX11 games. Some of the biggest improvements include Assassin’s Creed Syndicate which sees up to a 65% performance uplift, It Takes Two with a 24% average uplift, and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI with an average 27% uplift.

All of these performance improvements lead me to hope that Intel’s second generation Battlemage GPUs will launch considerably smoother than Alchemist and we’ll begin to see some great competition mostly with AMD and in the budget to mid range market.

Full Highlights

Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics and Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs for:

Last Epoch
Sea of Thieves DirectX 12 Update

Game performance improvements on Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs versus Intel 31.0.101.5252 software driver for:

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (DX11)
- Up to 65% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (DX11)
- Up to 17% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Normal settings
Divinity Original Sin 2 (DX11)
- Up to 25% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Far Cry 5 (DX11)
- Up to 8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Normal settings
Halo: The Master Chief Collection (DX11)
- Up to 19% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Original settings
It Takes Two (DX11)
- Up to 24% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Just Cause 3 (DX11)
- Up to 18% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Just Cause 4 (DX11)
- Up to 155% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Palworld (DX11)
- Up to 14% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Rise of the Tomb Raider (DX11)
- Up to 9% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Rust (DX11)
- Up to 9% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
SCUM (DX11)
- Up to 6% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (DX11)
- Up to 27% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Snowrunner (DX11)
- Up to 49% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Warframe (DX11)
- Up to 7% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
XCOM 2 (DX11)
- Up to 8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings

Known Issues:
Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

Topaz Video AI may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement

Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

Diablo 4 (DX12) may exhibit corruption on the terrain during gameplay
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may experience application crash after loading into gameplay
Autodesk Maya may experience an application crash while running SPECAPC benchmark
Blender may experience an application crash while rendering some scenes on certain system memory configurations
Topaz Video AI may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement
Serif Affinity Photo 2 may experience an application crash while running benchmark
Procyon AI may experience an application crash while running benchmark with precision Float32

Intel Core Processor (12th-14th Generation) Products:

Dragon Quest X Online (DX9) may experience sporadic application crash during gameplay

Intel Arc Control Known Issues

The Connector type in Display page may incorrectly show DP when using an HDMI display connection
Arc Control Studio capture recording file may become corrupted when the mouse cursor is enabled during HDR capture