Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4676 Beta Released

[GFreeman]

Intel Graphics has released yet another beta version of the Intel Arc GPU Graphics drivers, version 101.4676 Beta. The new version brings a couple of fixes for Starfield game, with more fixes coming in the future updates. In general, it improves stability of the game as well as fixes some rendering issues.

The latest Intel Arc GPU Graphics driver is still a beta release and hopefully, Intel will eventually launch the full Game On drivers, as there are still plenty of known issues with the game. On the other hand, as reported by Videocardz.com, Bethesda has noted that the Arc A770 GPU does not actually meet minimum requirements for the game, as these still include the Radeon RX 5700 and GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4676 Beta



Here are the full release notes:

FIXED ISSUES:
Intel Arc Graphics Products:

• Starfield (DX12) improved stability in different areas of the game.
• Starfield (DX12) may incorrectly render glass surfaces and objects.
• Starfield (DX12) may exhibit missing eyebrows on characters.

KNOWN ISSUES:
Intel Arc Graphics Products:

• Starfield (DX12) may experience sporadic instability in some areas of the game.
• Starfield (DX12) may exhibit corruption when using Dynamic Resolution Scaling. A workaround is to change the Render Resolution Scale slider value.
• Starfield (DX12) may exhibit low texture details on certain objects in the game.
• Starfield (DX12) may exhibit texture flickering on light sources during gameplay.
• Fortnite (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruptions during gameplay.
• UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption on characters.
• Halo Infinite (DX12) campaign may experience an application crash on some system configurations.
• Dead by Daylight (DX11) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
• Topaz Video AI may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement.
• Adobe After Effects may experience an application crash during render operations.
• Device fan may ramp up frequently on certain Intel Arc Graphics products.

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 ARC CONTROL KNOWN ISSUES:

• Using Arc Control Studio capture with certain games may incorrectly generate multiple video files.
• The "Connector" type in the Display page may incorrectly show DP when using an HDMI display connection.
• May observe "stream has already ended" pop-up after the power events with Capture/Highlights/Broadcast toggle on.
• Performance Graphs may scale incorrectly after waking up from sleep.
• Intel Arc Control Performance Tuning (BETA):
• Intel Arc Control 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.

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[ElectrO]

Just curious why do Intel and Nvidia have the worst GPU Driver numbers?
AMD's at least make sense.

 

[Jism]

Intel is still years away of ever competing with camp green or red.

 

[lemonadesoda]

Depends what you want to do with the card. Could also say that Green is way ahead of Red depending on what you are using the card for. (Specialist CAD or video editting or RT). As far as I understand, Intel is ahead of Red if you are using the card for video editting/encoding.

Means; Red is behind except in all usage scenarios except raster gaming.

 

[Aretak]

Depends what you want to do with the card. Could also say that Green is way ahead of Red depending on what you are using the card for. (Specialist CAD or video editting or RT). As far as I understand, Intel is ahead of Red if you are using the card for video editting/encoding.

Means; Red is behind except in all usage scenarios except raster gaming.

The only way you could say Intel is ahead of AMD in any way is if you add the huge qualifier of "at a budget price tag". The A750/A770 aren't competitive in any respect or any workload if you actually need high performance. If you're on an extremely tight budget then they may be interesting options for very specific workloads, but otherwise you're far better off just buying an AMD card that'll run rings around it across the board. There are then further qualifiers even within the areas where Intel sometimes shows relative strength, as Arc's RT performance, for example, is pretty hit and miss. It runs Cyberpunk 2077 pretty well, but it performs very poorly in other RT-enabled titles like Star Wars: Jedi Survivor and Fortnite. Premiere Pro also just plain stopped working on Arc at some point. I'm not sure if it's been fixed by now. It's also just generally beaten across the board by an RTX 3060 when it comes to content creation tasks, which have also tumbled in price recently.

Some of this can be attributed to driver issues, but then that's the point, isn't it? Unless you're 100% sure that your specific workload is stable and performant on Arc, buying one is a complete gamble. The drivers are still a mess. Performance is still all over the place. Games are still broken. Features are still missing. So no, I wouldn't say it's ahead of AMD in "all usage scenarios except raster gaming". I'd say it's behind in all usage scenarios except select workloads when comparing solely at a given price point.

 

[TheEndIsNear]

I don't know what they are talking about. My Arc is way faster than those cards. Of course I have a 3060, 6900xt, and a 4090 too. I want a 3rd choice. And anyone that says oh nvidia drivers are better and amds suck their argument is invalid with me with amount of different video cards over the past 20 years brand agnostic I can safely say that they both have their issues. Intel is new at it.

 

[Stephen.]

This driver is causing CPU usage spike to 10% regardless of PC idle or active.
Be cautious.

I rolled back.