Intel Fails to Deliver on Promised Day-0 Elden Ring Graphics Driver

[Raevenlord]

It seems that someone at Intel forgot to press "post" on the company's promised day-0 driver update for one of this year's most anticipated games - Elden Ring. The company previously announced a partnership with Elden Ring developer FromSoftware in the development of an updated driver that wold give Intel-based Elden Ring players streamlined performance and a (hopefully) bug-free experience when it comes to graphics rendering. But Elden Ring's launch day of February 24th has come and gone - and Intel is mum on where exactly its updated driver lies. For now, the latest available Intel graphics driver stands at version 101.1121 - released in November last year.

It may be the case that the driver development hit an unexpected snag, or perhaps Intel has simply opted to delay the driver's launch until there are actually some discrete-level graphics cards available for purchase - the company's initial Arc Alchemist lineup is expected to be announced and launched later this month. That would make sense - especially considering how a driver update this close to release might include some interesting data on the upcoming graphics cards that could be pursued by data miners. Even so, it doesn't seem like a good PR move for Intel to have loudly promised an updated driver and then fail to release it - especially as Intel's uphill battle in the discrete GPU market is just beginning. Perhaps the driver developers are having too much fun with the critically and consumer-acclaimed latest installment from FromSoftware?



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[ShurikN]

This is pretty much what's in store for all those poor souls waiting for their 3rd player.
Intel, the saviors of dgpu market...

 

[Imouto]

Jeremy Clarkson: "Oh no... Anyway"

 

[mechtech]

“one of this year's most anticipated games - Elden Ring.”

first I heard of the game. Guess I’ve been living under a rock lol

 

[Makaveli]

This is pretty much what's in store for all those poor souls waiting for their 3rd player.
Intel, the saviors of dgpu market...

lol pretty much this.

Everyone expecting intel to be their last hope (Obi wan kenobi)

Sorry the sith won!

 

[Firedrops]

slow news day? Intel failing to deliver on time has been the rule, not the exception, since ~2017.

 

[Pumper]

Intel might have messed up, but looking at what people are saying, having correct drivers does not save the game from running like shit anyway.

 

[Cutechri]

“one of this year's most anticipated games - Elden Ring.”

first I heard of the game. Guess I’ve been living under a rock lol

Well, same I guess. I know nothing about this game. Only game franchise I still care about is Silent Hill, too bad Konami doesn't.

 

[Vayra86]

Wasn't Elden Ring that Dark Souls for Dummies?

I guess the gameplay was too hard for Intel, they only managed to optimize the tutorial.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Aside from typical Intel non-delivery, aren't their latest drivers from Feb 8th, 2022, v101.1340? See: the upper right on TPU's site. Why does the article say the most recent ones are from Nov 11? Are these drivers somehow different?

 

[Chane]

Eh... I'm still waiting for them to release a driver that properly supports Halo Infinite on Iris Xe.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

IDK if Raj has anything to do with driver development, but I do recall AMD having some of the same issues when he was there.

 

[mr.sister]

I don't think Intel has any interest in updating drivers for their iGPUs to add support for games that:

1. Probably nobody is going to run on their iGPUs
2. Probably will hardly run on their iGPUs

 

[Lew Zealand]

I don't think Intel has any interest in updating drivers for their iGPUs to add support for games that:

1. Probably nobody is going to run on their iGPUs
2. Probably will hardly run on their iGPUs

This is more about Intel's driver commitment to their endlessly imminent dGPU release.

And I've been gaming on Intel iGPUs (and others of course) for many years and there will be people playing this game on them. Not a whole lot of people, but a whole lot more this year than previous ones owing to the wonderful current $1K+ GPU market.

 

[Tomorrow]

This is pretty much what's in store for all those poor souls waiting for their 3rd player.
Intel, the saviors of dgpu market...

Intel saw the insane profits raked in by Nvidia and AMD. And they want a part of this pie. That's all it is. And with them using TSMC and no their own fabs means these will be as supply constrained as others. People who think Intel will come and save us are deluding themselves. What would be hilarious would be if the bottom falls out on the crypto market and the used market is flooded with millions of cheap cards. Then no one will want to buy Intel's new and unproved cards with higher price.

Besides remember who's in charge over at Intel. Raja the HypeMaster. He's great at hyping up upcoming silicon. Not so much on the delivery.

 

[ShurikN]

I don't think Intel has any interest in updating drivers for their iGPUs to add support for games that:

1. Probably nobody is going to run on their iGPUs
2. Probably will hardly run on their iGPUs

So why did they promise day0 drivers then, and were excited to announce their partnership with Bandai Namco...

 

[mr.sister]

This is more about Intel's driver commitment

I understand that but I also believe that even Intel knows their iGPU have no business in the gaming world, even if people use them for some games and thus they offer little to no support for gaming.

Now, with Arc being a whole different beast than their Intel HD graphics, and having a very clear objective of running advanced graphics Im still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

“one of this year's most anticipated games - Elden Ring.”

first I heard of the game. Guess I’ve been living under a rock lol

I first heard about it a couple weeks ago.

 

[Imouto]

I don't think Intel has any interest in updating drivers for their iGPUs to add support for games that:

1. Probably nobody is going to run on their iGPUs
2. Probably will hardly run on their iGPUs

There's the OneXPlayer and other Intel powered handhelds. There are also those with laptops.

But this must be specially hard for those with handhelds because... holy shit my gaming device can't even game.

 

[xu^]

I first heard about it a couple weeks ago.

heard of it a few weeks ago , watched some gameplay on YT and thought, yep yet another boring open world borefest, no thanks

 

[Octopuss]

Wait, Intel has already released its hyped graphic card?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Wait, Intel has already released its hyped graphic card?

Err, looks on scan,. ,. No.

But Xe is in laptops,

Way Togo though, upping they're game on the timing, and even delivery front.

 

[mechtech]

I first heard about it a couple weeks ago.

Been livin under a rock called Terraria. Best $10 game hands down. $5 on sale!!

 

[AusWolf]

No worries. They also failed to deliver a graphics card to play it with, so...

 

[LiveOrDie]

The game runs like ass so it would need Intels Arc Alchemist to even run so its a given it meant for these GPUs not onboard lol.