Intel Releases Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6079 Beta

[btarunr]

Intel today released the latest version of the Arc GPU Graphics drivers. Version 101.6079 Beta comes with optimization for EA FC25, Throne and Liberty, and Delta Force. The installer download size of these drivers are "temporarily increased" in size (from around 400 MB to over 800 MB), as these are the first drivers to include support for the Arc Xe2 "Battlemage" integrated graphics of Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processors, indicating that Intel will soon retire driver payload for older iGPUs such as 11th Gen "Tiger Lake." There are no fixed issues with this release, but the company identified a few new issues as listed below.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6079 Beta



Game Ready

• Delta Force
• Throne and Liberty
• FC25

Packaging

• Intel Graphics Driver package size has temporarily increased due to the inclusion of graphics drivers for the Built-in Intel Arc GPUs with select Intel Core Ultra Series 2 Processors.

Known Issues
Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• Diablo IV (DX12) may intermittently crash while toggling Ray Tracing settings during gameplay.
• Doom Eternal (VK) may exhibit intermittent flickering corruption in the game menu and during gameplay.
• Blender may experience application crash while rendering certain benchmark scenes.
• Topaz Video AI may experience errors when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements.

Intel Core Ultra (Series 1 and 2) with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

• Diablo IV (DX12) may experience an application crash with ray tracing settings enabled.
• Horizon Forbidden West (DX12) may experience color corruption during gameplay.
• Enshrouded (VK) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
• Fortnite (DX12) game may stutter or crash while performing Alt + Tab operations.
• SPECworkstation3.1 may exhibit system instability while running certain workloads.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.
• Blender may experience application crash while rendering certain benchmark scenes.
• DirectML-based AI applications may experience slower first token latency.
• 3DMark WildMark Extreme may experience performance drop by 5%.
• Chaos Enscape Benchmark 4.1 may experience visual corruption.
• When enabling or disabling Endurance Gaming, the previous frame rate preset may not retain the desired frame rate. If observed, please select the intended setting to reapply the frame rate mode.

Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs only:

• Throne and Liberty (DX12) may experience an application crash after launching the game.
• Star Wars Outlaws (DX12) may experience an application crash while loading to gameplay.
• Final fantasy XVI (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption during gameplay.

Intel Arc Control Known Issues:

• Schedule Updates for Drivers may not work intermittently.
• Arc Control Studio capture or stream may not stop intermittently when using the stop option. A workaround is to use Exit app option in Settings to stop the recording.

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[Dr. Dro]

Seems unlikely Intel will remove 11th Gen support from the driver package, unless they also mean to remove 12th-14th Gen support. They use the same Xe/UHD 770 graphics architecture.

What might happen is that Intel will do what AMD did and fork the development, keeping the current 11-14th gen graphics on a long-term branch and developing Alchemist/Battlemage separately, Polaris and Vega are "updated" with revisions of an old driver from last year.

 

[GoldenX]

Seems unlikely Intel will remove 11th Gen support from the driver package, unless they also mean to remove 12th-14th Gen support. They use the same Xe/UHD 770 graphics architecture.

What might happen is that Intel will do what AMD did and fork the development, keeping the current 11-14th gen graphics on a long-term branch and developing Alchemist/Battlemage separately, Polaris and Vega are "updated" with revisions of an old driver from last year.

Yup, again leaving months old hardware without support, just like it happened to gen11 and 9 GPUs. Classic Intel.

 

[Solaris17]

Seems unlikely Intel will remove 11th Gen support from the driver package, unless they also mean to remove 12th-14th Gen support. They use the same Xe/UHD 770 graphics architecture.

What might happen is that Intel will do what AMD did and fork the development, keeping the current 11-14th gen graphics on a long-term branch and developing Alchemist/Battlemage separately, Polaris and Vega are "updated" with revisions of an old driver from last year.

They might, just not with the new stuff, That merger already happened between mobile Gen 10 and lower. Intel 11th gen shares the Xe name only, it is not the same arch. With that said, I wouldnt doubt they dump 12-14. Meteor lake is the true genesis of alchemist on mobile. I would know I literally had to deal with two different versions to grab firmware, thankfully older arches are there own driver branch, with anything more relevant on the normal ARC drivers. Intel has a habit of utilizing multiple code branches; this release is probably them just putting an if/else statement in the installer logic. They will merge them eventually into one contiguous driver (less size), like they've done in the past. It just might eventually trickle down to MTL+ being in the arc drivers.

If you have atleast currently, any iGPU of an older gen you can simply go get the original driver line.

Which they still upkeep.