Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6559 WHQL Released

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Intel today released the latest version of its Arc GPU Graphics Drivers. Version 101.6559 WHQL adds Game On driver-optimization for "Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii," with the optimization covering the Arc B-series, A-series, and Core Ultra processors with Arc iGPUs. The drivers also add optimization for "Avowed," covering the B-series and A-series discrete GPUs. Performance for Arc B-series GPUs has been improved for "Senua's Saga: Hellblade II," with up to 5.9% increase in framerates to be had at 1080p with High settings.

Among the issues fixed with this release are flickering seen with Arc A-series discrete GPUs, Core Ultra Series 1 and Series 2 processor iGPUs in Adobe After Effects, specifically in its Preview window. "Horizon Zero Dawn remastered" experiencing a crash with frame generation enabled on Core Ultra Series 2 processors with Arc graphics, has been fixed. Grab the drivers from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.6559 WHQL



Gaming Highlights
Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs for:

• Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs for:

• Avowed

Game performance improvements on Intel Arc B-series Graphics GPUs versus Intel 32.0.101.6262 software driver for:

• Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (DX12)
  • Up to 5.9% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings

Fixed Issues
Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.

Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

• Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.

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

• Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered (DX12) may experience crash during gameplay with frame generation enabled.
• Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.

Known Issues
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Terraria (DX9) may exhibit flickering corruptions with full-screen mode.
• MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. It is recommended to disable the integrated GPU as a workaround.
• Topaz Labs Photo AI may exhibit corruptions with certain image enhancement operations.
• Magix Vegas Pro may exhibit corruptions when using the style transfer feature.
• Dassault Systèmes CATIA may experience an application crash when using the HQAO option.
• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.
• Adobe Lightroom Classic may experience lower-than-expected performance. Workaround:
• Under Edit, Preferences, Performance options, choose Graphics Processor as "Custom."
• Select "Use GPU for Display," "Use GPU for Image Processing," and "Use GPU for Export" options.

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker-than-expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.
• Topaz Gigapixel AI may experience intermittent crashes while exporting images.
• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.

Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with the benchmark preset set to Extended.
• Davinci Resolve Studio v19.0 may experience errors while rendering OpenVino test scenarios.
• Topaz Video AI may experience corruption when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements.
• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.

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

• Adobe Premiere Pro may exhibit corruption in the output video after performing 8K AV1 Encode.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with the benchmark preset set to Extended.
• Davinci Resolve Studio v19.0 may experience errors intermittently while rendering certain AI/ML scenarios.
• Topaz Video AI may experience corruption when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements.
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (DX11) may experience intermittent crashes during gameplay.
• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video on certain Intel Core Ultra Series 2 Mobile Processors.
• Avowed (DX12) may experience application instability when disabling Ray Tracing and performing a game restart.

Intel Graphics Software Known Issues

• Intel Graphics Software may experience a very intermittent application crash when navigating pages or dialogue boxes due to an underlying framework issue. A fix will be made available once WinAppSDK 1.7 is available for upgrade. The application can be re-launched without issue as a workaround.
• When using the settings, preferences, reset all settings option in Windows 10, the application may experience an intermittent crash. Settings can be reset from individual pages without issue.
• Intel Graphics Software may sometimes experience a single application crash on the first re-arrange of metrics within the select metrics window. Subsequent usage will not be affected.
• FPS Limiter may not limit FPS with VSync ON and Low Latency Mode enabled.
• Profile controls don't always supersede global controls.
• Display scaling at non-native panel resolutions might result in unintended scaling.
• Intel Graphics Software may not uninstall entirely when uninstalling using Add or Remove Programs.

Intel Graphics Software Performance Tuning (BETA)

• Intel Graphics Software 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.
• In multi-GPU scenarios with two performance-tuning capable devices, the performance tuning page may attempt to apply changes to one or more devices at once rather than individually based on the GPU selector.

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