Thursday, January 30th 2025
Intel Releases Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6557 Beta
Intel has released its latest version of the Arc GPU Graphics Drivers, version 101.6557 Beta. The latest update brings Game On Driver support for a couple of new games as well as improves performance in F1 24 and Sid Meier's Civilization VII games. The new driver update also fixes a single issue where the Intel Graphics Software may incorrectly report number of Xe Cores on certain Intel Arc B-series graphics cards.
According to Intel's release notes, the new driver update adds Game On driver support on Intel Arc B-series and A-series GPUs, and Intel Core Ultra CPUs with integrated Intel Arc GPUs, for Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, and Sid Meier's Civilization VII games. It also improves performance on Intel Arc B-series GPUs in F1 24 game (DX12) at High Settings by up to 15.1 percent at 1080p and by up to 12.1 percent at 1440p resolution. The performance uplift also comes to Intel Core Ultra Series 2 CPUs with integrated Intel Arc GPUs in F1 24 (DX12), by up to 12.3 percent at 1080p with Medium Settings, and in Sid Meier's Civilization VII (DX12) by up to 7.7 percent at 1080p with Medium Settings.
DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6557 Beta
Here are the full release notes.
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:
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
According to Intel's release notes, the new driver update adds Game On driver support on Intel Arc B-series and A-series GPUs, and Intel Core Ultra CPUs with integrated Intel Arc GPUs, for Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, and Sid Meier's Civilization VII games. It also improves performance on Intel Arc B-series GPUs in F1 24 game (DX12) at High Settings by up to 15.1 percent at 1080p and by up to 12.1 percent at 1440p resolution. The performance uplift also comes to Intel Core Ultra Series 2 CPUs with integrated Intel Arc GPUs in F1 24 (DX12), by up to 12.3 percent at 1080p with Medium Settings, and in Sid Meier's Civilization VII (DX12) by up to 7.7 percent at 1080p with Medium Settings.
DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6557 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:
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Sid Meier's Civilization VII
- F1 24 (DX12)
- Up to 15.1% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings
- Up to 12.1% average FPS uplift at 1440p with High settings
- F1 24 (DX12)
- Up to 12.3% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Sid Meier's Civilization VII (DX12)
- Up to 7.7% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
- F1 24 (DX12) with XeSS FG may exhibit applications crashes
- Application may crash when dynamically changing XeSS FG settings during gameplay. Recommendation is to 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. It is recommended to disable integrated GPU as a workaround.
- Topaz Labs Photo AI may exhibit corruptions with certain image enhancement operations.
- Magix Vegas Pro may exhibit corruptions when using style transfer feature.
- Dassault Systèmes CATIA may experience an application crash when using HQAO option.
- Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.
- Adobe Lightroom Classic may experience lower than expected performance. Workaround is to 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.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker than expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.
- Topaz Gigapixel AI may experience intermittent crash while exporting images.
- Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.
- Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.
- 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.
- ▪ Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.
- Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.
- 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 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.
- Call of duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (DX11) may experience crash during gameplay.
- Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.
- Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video on certain Intel Core Ultra Series 2 Mobile Processors.
- We continuously strive to improve the quality of our products to better serve our users and appreciate feedback on any issues you discover and suggestions for future driver releases. If you have an issue to submit, please follow the guidance found here Default level information for reporting Graphics issues.
- Intel Graphics Software may incorrectly report number of Xe Cores for certain Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products.
- 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 relaunched 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 not uninstall entirely when uninstalling using Add or Remove Programs. Intel Graphics Software Performance Tuning (BETA):
- Intel Graphics Software 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.
- In multi-GPU scenarios with two performance tuning capable devices, the performance tuning page may attempt to apply changes to one or more devices at once rather than individually based on the GPU selector.
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