Intel Graphics today released the Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers, version 31.0.101.3959 beta. These bring game optimization for "World of Warcraft: Dragonflight," "Warhammer 40,000: Darktide," "The Callisto Protocol," "Marvel's Midnight Suns," and "Fortnite Chapter 4." The drivers also improve DirectX 9 game experience for a number of games (Arc GPUs lack native support for D3D9 and rely on API translation). These games include the likes of "Starcraft 2," "Payday 2," and CS:GO. Among the issues fixed with this release include ghosting and corruption noticed in "Victoria 3" in DirectX 11 mode; texture corruption with "Hearts of Iron IV," flickering noticed with "Stellaris" and "Sonic Frontiers." Grab the drivers from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 31.0.101.3959 betaIntel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics for:

• World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
• Warhammer 40K: Darktide
• Marvel's Midnight Suns
• The Callisto Protocol
• Fortnite (Chapter 4/UE5.1)

This software package contains performance optimizations for:

• League of Legends
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Payday 2
• Stellaris
• Starcraft 2
• Guild Wars 2
• NiZhan
• Moonlight Blade

This software package contains performance optimizations for:

• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (DX12)
• Far Cry New Dawn (DX11)
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider (DX11)
• DOTA 2 (DX11)
• Dying Light 2 (DX12)

Support for Agility SDK 1.608.0 developer features:

• Enhanced Barriers for finer-grained control of barriers
• Support of Vulkan to D3D12 Dynamic Pipeline State

Fixed

• Victoria 3 (DX11) may exhibit ghosting corruption when applying MSAA x16 settings.
• Hearts of Iron IV (DX11) may exhibit texture corruption when applying MSAA x16 settings.
• Stellaris (DX9) may exhibit texture and flickering corruption during Star previews.
• Sonic Frontiers (DX11) may experience flickering corruption on Intel Arc A380 Graphics Products when Frame Rate Limit setting is set to 60. A workaround is to set Frame Rate Limit to 30.

Known Issues

• Diablo II: Resurrected (DX12) may cause system instability or application crash.
• Conqueror's Blade (DX12) may experience corruption in benchmark mode.
• Call of Duty: Vanguard (DX12) may experience missing or corrupted shadows during the Submarine mission.
• Payday 2 (DX9) may exhibit flickering corruption on specific water surfaces.
• System may hang while waking up from sleep. May need to power cycle the system for recovery. GPU hardware acceleration may not be available for media playback and encode with some versions of Adobe Premiere Pro. Blender may exhibit corruption while using Nishita Sky texture node.

Arc Control Fixed Issues

• Arc Control may not scale automatically and may cause some UI toggles to become unresponsive when changing from a 1080p resolution to a 4K resolution. A workaround is to revert resolution or reboot.
• Some applications may exhibit pixel corruption when Sharpening Filter is enabled globally.
• Arc Control Studio Capture may exhibit a "Selected audio device not found" error after resuming the system from sleep.

Arc Control Known Issues

• Windows UAC Admin is required to install and launch Arc Control.
• Some applications may exhibit a transparent or blank window when CMAA is set to "Force ON" globally.
• A 1440p resolution selection in Arc Control Studio Capture may be unavailable when the display native resolution is 4K.
• Arc Control Studio Camera overlay position may not retain desired position and size after a system restart.
• The Arc Control Studio Camera tab may take longer than expected responsiveness upon the first navigation.
• Arc Control may report incorrect memory bandwidth value.
• 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.