Intel Graphics Releases Arc 30.0.101.3268 Beta Drivers with Dozens of Fixes

ThrashZone · Aug 22, 2022

mechtech said:
Let’s hear it for the beta testers!!!! The unsung heroes in the pc world.

Hi,
Intel sure didn't use the gpu's themselves on much of anything besides blender :laugh:

Dirt Chip · Aug 22, 2022

dozenfury said:
On the plus side, good on them for being quick to address these bugs. As others have mentioned, the growing pains are somewhat to be expected. That should be part of the buying decision for early Arc adopters.

On the negative end, some of these sound like really obvious bugs that should have been caught in testing. Texture corruption in BF2042? Crashing when setting video options and during gameplay. Windows Update downgrading the driver? I have to question how much testing was done, or if it was just release it to the public and they'll be our beta testers to tell us what doesn't work. They'll need to be a little more proactive.

ARC first gen is nothing but a big beta-testing program of a very wealthy company.
You can bash and criticize it up to the moon and back for being not as good as the, 20+ year of experience, compatition OR you can relax and enjoy from the side on the whole process.

Set your expectations to 'low' settings in FHD and let it flow.

jesdals · Aug 22, 2022

I actually like that Intel took the advice from Steve and co thats nice to see - do think that they only managed half of the errors so far though

efikkan · Aug 22, 2022

crimsontape said:
Honest questions and thoughts... Compared to AMD and NVIDIA, whose success depends on product implementation and optimization support with software developers and of all kinds, what's Intel cost barrier?

The graphics APIs have specs and software is developed in accordance with this spec should work on any driver which complies with the spec. It's a myth that (PC) games are optimized for specific hardware or that the drivers are optimized for specific games. (Drivers may include some settings profiles and shader overrides, but these are lowering of details rather than actual optimizations.)
Most of you are apparently not aware that there are a lot of commercial custom software which uses these graphics APIs too, even some military simulation and visualization tools, and most of which are developed without any kind of support from Nvidia/AMD/Intel. They still work, because the drivers (should) behave according to a spec.

AnotherReader said:
They had years to polish the drivers via the IGP route, and in any case, missing frequent BSODs is just puzzling. Still, it's great to see them fix so many bugs in one release. If they keep up this cadence, then they might be a good option for the 3060 Ti and below range later this year.

Their drivers were quite stable before they started adding in fancy additional gaming related features and gimmicks. Intel have plenty of resources, but I guess they probably rushed some features and introduced lots of problems in the process, which isn't unusal in the software industry. Better team coordination can help with this kind of problem.

sepheronx · Aug 22, 2022

I hope Intel pulls through and continues GPU R&D and full production because competition is needed....badly.

Harakhti · Aug 22, 2022

Heh, sure didn't benefit Intel much when Krzanich sacked the team that was doing the IGP upbringing up until Haswell...glad things are getting better.

Easo · Aug 23, 2022

The more I read comments about the Intel GPU's, the more I get the feeling people do not want the 3rd manufacturer, they just want either instant best product on the market without Intel having prior experience OR they hate Intel so much they do not care about healh of the GPU market...
That's some kind of advanced masochism.

Dr. Dro · Aug 23, 2022

Easo said:
The more I read comments about the Intel GPU's, the more I get the feeling people do not want the 3rd manufacturer, they just want either instant best product on the market without Intel having prior experience OR they hate Intel so much they do not care about healh of the GPU market...
That's some kind of advanced masochism.

A lot of people take this brand loyalty thing to heart and if anything comes that may lower the value of their investment, they'll get very defensive, or aggressive about it

Fasola · Aug 23, 2022

Easo said:
The more I read comments about the Intel GPU's, the more I get the feeling people do not want the 3rd manufacturer, they just want either instant best product on the market without Intel having prior experience OR they hate Intel so much they do not care about healh of the GPU market...
That's some kind of advanced masochism.

You reckon cheerleading (or "hate" for that matter) from random internet users will improve the hardware and software shortcomings of Intel's product?
"Well done champ! Here's your participation trophy." - there you go, it's fixed now

Easo · Aug 24, 2022

Fasola said:
You reckon cheerleading (or "hate" for that matter) from random internet users will improve the hardware and software shortcomings of Intel's product?
"Well done champ! Here's your participation trophy." - there you go, it's fixed now

No. But the blind craziness here is worrying. "Better to have nothing instead of having Intel manage (possibly, over the time) to become 3rd manufacturer so that I can feel good about myself."

Fasola · Aug 26, 2022

Easo said:
No. But the blind craziness here is worrying. "Better to have nothing instead of having Intel manage (possibly, over the time) to become 3rd manufacturer so that I can feel good about myself."

Worrying in what way? You believe negative comments have an actual bearing on what a corporation the size of Intel will do? If that were true, NV and AMD would have folded a long time ago from all the Ngreedia, AMDumb/Rebrandeon comments I've seen over the years.

ThrashZone · Aug 26, 2022

Easo said:
The more I read comments about the Intel GPU's, the more I get the feeling people do not want the 3rd manufacturer, they just want either instant best product on the market without Intel having prior experience OR they hate Intel so much they do not care about healh of the GPU market...
That's some kind of advanced masochism.

Hi,
Well it looks like it took a youtube review for intel to fix anything
So it doesn't look like intel even tests it new products very much so any negative comment is earned imho

Intel should do better guess all those China first buyers/ users didn't notice any issues :laugh:

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