Intel has released its latest version of the Arc GPU Graphics Driver, version 101.6651 Beta. The latest GPU graphics driver update brings Game On driver support for the latest Ubisoft Assassin's Creed Shadows game on Intel Arc B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs, as well as improves performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Intel Arc B-series Graphics GPUs. According to Intel's release notes, you can expect up to 15 percent improvement on 1080p resolution and up to 12 percent improvement on 1440p resolution, both with Extreme Settings.

The new GPU graphics driver also fixes an issue in Black Myth: Wukong game on may experience application crash while running benchmark with Full Ray Tracing turned on Intel Arc B-Series GPUs, where the game might experience application crash while running benchmark with full ray tracing turned on. There are several new known issues which you can check out in the full release notes below.

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• 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:
  • Assassin's Creed Shadows
• Game performance improvements on Intel Arc B-series Graphics GPUs versus Intel 32.0.101.6647 software driver for:
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12)
    • Up to 15% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Extreme settings
    • Up to 12% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Extreme settings

Fixed Issues

• Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
  • Black Myth: Wukong (DX12) may experience application crash while running benchmark with Full Ray Tracing turned on

Known Issues

• Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
  • 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
  • Topaz Labs Photo AI may exhibit corruptions with certain image enhancement operations
  • 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
  • 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

• 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 crash while exporting images
  • 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:
  • 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
  • Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (DX11) may experience intermittent crash during gameplay
  • Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (DX12) may exhibit corruptions on water areas in certain scenarios
  • GFXBench benchmark may experience application crash in certain scenarios

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
• Intel Graphics Software may not uninstall entirely when uninstalling using Add or Remove Programs
• 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

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