Intel Graphics Releases Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4369 WHQL

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Intel Graphics releases Arc GPU Graphics Drivers version 101.4369 WHQL. These drivers significantly improve performance for "The Outlast Trials," with gains of up to 65% and 52% to be had at 1080p and 1440p, respectively, compared to the previous 101.4355 drivers. The drivers also offer 4% to 11% uplifts for "Starship Troopers: Extermination" Early Access. The drivers introduce an all new version of Arc Control, which adds fan speed settings, VRR control, a new Search bar that finds features and settings; improved background replacement for virtual camera, and the ability to select more than one device for telemetry. It also fixes UAC requirements to launch Arc Control, improved Resizable BAR status reporting, and live performance monitoring.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4369 WHQL



Game Highlights
Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics for:

• The Outlast Trials
• The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
• Starship Troopers: Extermination Early Access

Game performance improvements versus Intel 31.0.101.4335 software driver for:

• The Outlast Trials (DX12)
  • Up to 65% uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
  • Up to 52% uplift at 1440p with High settings
• The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (DX12)
  • Up to 4% uplift at 1080p with Epic settings
  • Up to 11% uplift at 1440p with High settings
• Minecraft Bedrock (DXR)
  • Up to 30% uplift at 1080p with Ray Tracing enabled at 8 RT chunks
  • Up to 34% uplift at 1440p with Ray Tracing enabled at 8 RT chunks
  • Up to 28% uplift at 1440p with Ray Tracing enabled at 24 RT chunks

Fixed Issues:
Intel Core Processor Products:

• Battlefield: 2042 (DX12) may exhibit color corruption at the game menu
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (DX12) may experience color corruption in Quick Play Lobby

Known Issues:
Intel Arc Graphics Products:

• The Last of Us (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
• System may hang while waking up from sleep. May need to power cycle the system for recovery.
• GPU hardware acceleration may not be available for media playback and encode with some versions of Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Topaz Video AI may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement.
• Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics Products:
• Driver installation may not complete successfully on certain notebook systems with both Intel Iris Xe + Iris Xe MAX devices. A system reboot and re-installation of the graphics driver may be required for successful installation.

Intel Core Processor Products:

• Total War: Warhammer III (DX11) may experience an application crash when loading battle scenarios.
• Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 (DX12) may exhibit corruption on certain light sources such as fire.
• Conqueror's Blade (DX12) may experience an application crash during game launch.
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (DX12) may experience application instability during gameplay.

Intel Arc Control Highlights:

• Display Page
  • o A new display page is now available in Intel Arc Control that allows users to view connected display information as well as shortcuts to the OS for changing resolution and refresh rate of displays.
  • o Variable Refresh Rate status and control is now available within the new Display page.
  • Resizable BAR Status
  • o Resizable BAR status reporting within Intel Arc Control now contains a drop-down menu to view per graphics device Resizable BAR status.
  • Driver Update Beta Opt-In
  • o Recently introduced improvements for the driver update feature within Intel Arc Control allows users to opt-in to the beta releases of drivers made available on intel.com. Users can now also view the type of release which is installed as well as release notes for that release within Arc Control.
• Search Bar
  • A new feature available within Intel Arc Control that allows you to easily and quickly search for and navigate to features within the user interface.
  • Performance Telemetry Support
  • Telemetry within the performance page of Intel Arc Control now has a drop-down selector that allows telemetry for supported graphics products connected to your system to be viewed.
• Fan Speed Controls
  • Added new fan speed controls within the performance page under performance tuning configuration of Intel Arc Control.
• Automatic allows the driver to control your fan speed behavior.
• Fxed fan target enables a static fan speed.
• Fan curve enables a dynamic fan speed to adjust fan speed with temperature targets.
• Virtual Camera Filters
  • Lighting adjustments enable auto and manual adjustment of lighting conditions.
  • Background replacement has been improved with the ability to adjust color balance.

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[KrazyT]

Intel still care for the Arc line !

As for the Intel Core Processor Products, can it really plays games such as Warzone 2.0 ??

 

[Solaris17]

@AusWolf UAC fix you were on XE right? should apply to you or I have terrible memory.

 

[lemonadesoda]

I would really like to understand how these "improvements" work. Are they specific and unique codepaths targeted to these games that make some kind of optimisations and shortcuts in these specific games only? If we renamed the .exe would these speedups therefore no be used, and the (poor) performance would revert? Or are they genuine improvements to DX11/12 drivers that affect ALL games, just these listed games improve more because of their greater use of certain functions/features of DX11/12?"

 

[Od1sseas]

I would really like to understand how these "improvements" work. Are they specific and unique codepaths targeted to these games that make some kind of optimisations and shortcuts in these specific games only? If we renamed the .exe would these speedups therefore no be used, and the (poor) performance would revert? Or are they genuine improvements to DX11/12 drivers that affect ALL games, just these listed games improve more because of their greater use of certain functions/features of DX11/12?"

The optimizations are game specific so yes, if you renamed the .exe the game-specific optimizations wouldn't work.

 

[AusWolf]

@AusWolf UAC fix you were on XE right? should apply to you or I have terrible memory.

I've given up so much that I didn't even read the full post, just scrolled over it. Thanks for pointing it out!

I'll try it over the weekend, and report back.

 

[HisDivineOrder]

Here's to hoping Intel gets AMD back to competing for GPU sales. It worked for CPU's. The only thing that'll get Nvidia competing is sustained and significant loss of sales over a period of more than a year. Something their investors can't possibly miss.