Friday, September 8th 2023
Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4676 Beta Released
Intel Graphics has released yet another beta version of the Intel Arc GPU Graphics drivers, version 101.4676 Beta. The new version brings a couple of fixes for Starfield game, with more fixes coming in the future updates. In general, it improves stability of the game as well as fixes some rendering issues.
The latest Intel Arc GPU Graphics driver is still a beta release and hopefully, Intel will eventually launch the full Game On drivers, as there are still plenty of known issues with the game. On the other hand, as reported by Videocardz.com, Bethesda has noted that the Arc A770 GPU does not actually meet minimum requirements for the game, as these still include the Radeon RX 5700 and GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.
DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4676 Beta
Here are the full release notes:
FIXED ISSUES:
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
Sources:
Intel, Videocardz
The latest Intel Arc GPU Graphics driver is still a beta release and hopefully, Intel will eventually launch the full Game On drivers, as there are still plenty of known issues with the game. On the other hand, as reported by Videocardz.com, Bethesda has noted that the Arc A770 GPU does not actually meet minimum requirements for the game, as these still include the Radeon RX 5700 and GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.
DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4676 Beta
FIXED ISSUES:
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- Starfield (DX12) improved stability in different areas of the game.
- Starfield (DX12) may incorrectly render glass surfaces and objects.
- Starfield (DX12) may exhibit missing eyebrows on characters.
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- Starfield (DX12) may experience sporadic instability in some areas of the game.
- Starfield (DX12) may exhibit corruption when using Dynamic Resolution Scaling. A workaround is to change the Render Resolution Scale slider value.
- Starfield (DX12) may exhibit low texture details on certain objects in the game.
- Starfield (DX12) may exhibit texture flickering on light sources during gameplay.
- Fortnite (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruptions during gameplay.
- UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption on characters.
- Halo Infinite (DX12) campaign may experience an application crash on some system configurations.
- Dead by Daylight (DX11) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
- Topaz Video AI may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement.
- Adobe After Effects may experience an application crash during render operations.
- Device fan may ramp up frequently on certain Intel Arc Graphics products.
- Driver installation may not complete 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.
- Using Arc Control Studio capture with certain games may incorrectly generate multiple video files.
- The "Connector" type in the Display page may incorrectly show DP when using an HDMI display connection.
- May observe "stream has already ended" pop-up after the power events with Capture/Highlights/Broadcast toggle on.
- Performance Graphs may scale incorrectly after waking up from sleep.
- Intel Arc Control Performance Tuning (BETA):
- Intel Arc Control Performance Tuning is currently in Beta. As such, performance and features may behave unexpectedly. Intel will continue to refine the Performance Tuning software in future releases.
6 Comments on Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4676 Beta Released
AMD's at least make sense.
Means; Red is behind except in all usage scenarios except raster gaming.
Some of this can be attributed to driver issues, but then that's the point, isn't it? Unless you're 100% sure that your specific workload is stable and performant on Arc, buying one is a complete gamble. The drivers are still a mess. Performance is still all over the place. Games are still broken. Features are still missing. So no, I wouldn't say it's ahead of AMD in "all usage scenarios except raster gaming". I'd say it's behind in all usage scenarios except select workloads when comparing solely at a given price point.
Be cautious.
I rolled back.