Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6795 Beta Released

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Intel today released the latest version of the Arc GPU Graphics Drivers. Version 101.6795 Beta comes with optimization for "Dune: Awakening," "Elden Ring Nightreign," and "F1 25." The drivers also improve performance of Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete GPUs in "Monster Hunter Wilds," with up to 9% seen at 1080p and 6% seen at 1440p. The drivers don't fix any game-specific, application-specific, or Graphics Software-specific bugs with this release, but identified a few new issues that it added to its "Known Issues" list, and will release fixes for in future releases. Grab the drivers from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6795 Beta



Gaming
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:

• Dune: Awakening
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• F1 25

Game performance improvements on Intel Arc B-series Graphics GPUs versus Intel 32.0.101.6793 software driver for:

• Monster Hunter Wilds (DX12)
  • Up to 9% average FPS uplift at 1080p
  • Up to 6% average FPS uplift at 1440p

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.
• MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. It is recommended to disable integrated GPU as a workaround.
• 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.

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:

• 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:

• Blender 4.4 may fail to complete rendering while using Cycles render engine.
• Adobe Premiere Pro may experience an intermittent application crash.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.

Intel Graphics Software Known Issues:

• Intel Graphics Software may experience a very intermittent application crash when navigating pages or dialogue boxes due to an underlying framework issue. A fix will be made available in IGS once WinAppSDK 1.7 is available for upgrade. The application can be re-launched without issue as a workaround.
• 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.
• 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 panel resolutions might result in unintended scaling.
• Intel Graphics Software may experience an application crash while navigating between application profiles in the Profiles page

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