Thursday, January 16th 2025

Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6458 WHQL Released

Intel today released the latest version of the Arc GPU Graphics Drivers. Version 101.6458 WHQL comes with support for the new Arc B570 graphics card the company launched today. The drivers also add support for the Xe-LPG iGPU of Core Ultra 200H series "Arrow Lake-H" mobile processors. For Core Ultra 200-series iGPUs, the drivers add an up to 6.8% performance uplift in "Call of Duty: Black Ops 6." The drivers address an issue with "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" where the game exhibits inconsistent performance and memory usage. "Shadow of the Tomb Raider" saw an intermittent application crash and display corruption in the game menu with XeSS enabled, which has been fixed. Grab the drivers from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6458 WHQL
Highlights:
  • Launch driver for Intel Arc B570 Graphics (codename Battlemage).
  • Launch driver for Intel Core Ultra Series 2 Mobile Processors (codename Arrow Lake-H).
Gaming Highlights:
Game performance improvements on Intel Core Ultra series 2 versus Intel 31.0.101.6449 software driver:
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12)
  • Up to 6.8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Basic settings
Fixed Issues:
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
  • Indiana Jones and The Great Circle (VK) may exhibit inconsistent performance and GPU memory usage during gameplay.
  • Shadow of The Tomb Raider (DX12) may experience intermittent application crash and corruption in the game menu with XeSS enabled.
Known Issues:
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
  • F1 24 (DX12) with XeSS FG may exhibit certain corruptions and application crashes:
  • Application may crash when dynamically changing XeSS FG settings during gameplay. Recommendation: Toggle XeSS FG settings in the game menu before starting a race.
  • "Alt + Enter" shortcut may change the display mode to fullscreen exclusive, which is not supported in XeSS 2 and may cause the game to crash.
  • MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. Workaround: Disable integrated GPU.
  • Topaz Labs Photo AI may exhibit corruptions with certain image enhancement operations.
  • Magix Vegas Pro may exhibit corruptions when using the style transfer feature.
  • Dassault Systèmes CATIA may experience an application crash when using HQAO option.
  • Adobe Lightroom Classic may experience lower than expected performance. Workaround: Set recommended preferences in the application:
  • Under Edit, Preferences, Performance options, choose Graphics Processor as "Custom."
  • Select "Use GPU for Display," "Use GPU for Image Processing," and "Use GPU for Export" options.
Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker than expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.
  • Topaz Gigapixel AI may experience intermittent crashes while exporting images.
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.
  • Davinci Resolve Studio v19.0 may experience errors while rendering OpenVino test scenarios.
  • Topaz Video AI may experience corruption when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements.
Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
  • Adobe Premiere Pro may exhibit corruption in the output video after performing 8K AV1 Encode.
  • PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.
  • Davinci Resolve Studio v19.0 may experience issues while rendering certain OpenVino test scenarios.
  • Davinci Resolve Studio v19.0 may experience errors intermittently while rendering certain AI/ML scenarios.
  • Topaz Video AI may experience corruption when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements.
  • Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered (DX12) may experience crash during gameplay with frame generation enabled.
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 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 don't always supersede global controls.
  • Display scaling at non-native panel resolutions might result in unintended scaling.
  • Intel Graphics Software may incorrectly report the number of Xe Cores for certain Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products.
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