Intel Releases Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6876 Beta

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Intel today released the latest version of its Arc GPU Graphics Drivers. Version 101.6876 Beta comes with optimization for "FBC: Firebreak," "Rematch," "Stellar Blade," and "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege X." In addition, the driver fixes an issue specific to Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete GPUs, where intermittent visual artifacts appear in certain usage scenarios. The company also identified several new issues with this release, which are listed below. Grab the drivers from the following link.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6876 Beta



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

• FBC: Firebreak
• Rematch
• Stellar Blade
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege X

Fixed Issues
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Intermittent visual artifacts may appear in certain usage scenarios.

Known Issues
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruption in certain scenes during gameplay.
• Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with ray tracing settings turned on.
• Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (DX12) may exhibit corruptions on water areas in certain scenarios.
• SPECapc for Maya 2024 may experience intermittent application freeze during benchmark.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.
• HWiNFO may incorrectly report number of Xe Cores for certain Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products.

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• Overwatch 2 (DX12) may experience an application crash while launching game with High or Ultra graphics quality settings.
• Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with ray tracing settings turned on.
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (DX12) may experience an application crash with ray tracing and XeSS enabled.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.

Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

• Adobe Premiere Pro may fail to import video. Mitigation is to use Intel NPU Driver version 32.0.100.3717 or lower.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.

Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

• Certain handheld devices may experience audio glitches and lower than expected performance while audio is playing.
• Valorant (DX11) may fail to enumerate supported resolutions in game settings.
• Adobe Premiere Pro may experience an intermittent application crash.
• Adobe Premiere Pro may fail to import video. Mitigation is to use Intel NPU Driver version 32.0.100.3717 or lower.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.

Intel Graphics Software Known Issues

• May experience a very intermittent application crash when navigating pages or dialogue boxes.
• Settings > Preferences > Reset all settings may cause an intermittent crash in Windows 10.
• May crash once when rearranging metrics in the Select Metrics window. Subsequent usage is unaffected.
• FPS Limiter may not limit FPS with VSync ON and Low Latency Mode enabled.
• Profile controls may not always supersede global controls.
• Display scaling at non-native resolutions might result in unintended scaling.

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[soder]

Does anyone have any idea, how Firmware update for Arc cards work? Any hidden release notes for what the firmware fixes? HDMI Protocol converter (PCon) firmware update does really need an active HDMI monitor connectivity, otherwise it wont update? What does that HDMI Pcon firmware fixes? VRR compatibility?