Intel Releases Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4644 WHQL

[btarunr]

Intel today released the latest version of the Arc GPU Graphics Drivers. Version 101.4644 WHQL comes with Game On (day-zero) optimization for "Madden NFL 24," and "Wayfinder." Among the issues fixed with this release include an application crash noticed with "Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection" when launching the game; a system hang noticed when waking up your desktop from sleep, needing you to cycle power; and an application crash observed with Blender 3.6 during render operations, when hardware ray tracing is enabled. Grab the drivers from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.4644 WHQL



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

• Madden NFL 24
• Wayfinder

Fixed Issues
Intel Arc Graphics Products:

• UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may experience an application crash while launching game.
• System may hang while waking up from sleep. May need to power cycle the system for recovery.
• Blender 3.6 may experience an application crash during render operations when Hardware Ray Tracing is enabled.

Known Issues
Intel Arc Graphics Products:

• Shadow of The Tomb Raider (DX11) may experience an application crash after loading to game menu.
• UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption on characters.
• Topaz Video AI may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement.
• Adobe After Effects may experience an application crash during render operations.

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 Fixed Issues

• Virtual Camera may intermittently fail to engage on the Camera page.
• Release Notes in Intel Arc Control driver page may show unformatted HTML data.
• "Sort by" dropdown in the Games Page may be missing after using "Reset application to default."
• Toggling the Virtual Camera enablement may show as disabled during onscreen capture in the Capture page.
• On-screen Capture and Highlights capture may turn off while using multiple displays when moving Intel Arc Control window across displays.
• Clean Installation option may not be available in Arc Driver page while updating to WHQL driver.
• Preview toggle may incorrectly enable when the camera is used by the Windows camera application.
• With Intel Arc Control installed, systems may experience slightly higher than expected power consumption during system sleep or hibernate.
• Background Blur effects with Virtual Camera may not change when setting blur strength from 50% to 100%.
• On-screen camera may not come up when capturing games in full screen mode
• Last captured image may persist in On-screen camera preview after disconnecting camera.

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.

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[Solaris17]

Odd this driver contains PCON firmware for DG2 chips. Maybe they might be trying to fix.

• The "Connector" type in the Display page may incorrectly show DP when using an HDMI display connection.

 

[Cheeseball]

• With Intel Arc Control installed, systems may experience slightly higher than expected power consumption during system sleep or hibernate.

This is not the high idle power consumption (40+W) issue when a display is set at a high (100+ Hz) refresh rate (obviously), but this does resolve the issue where sleep/hibernate (I have not tested hibernate myself) shows the whole system still using more than 20+W. It now goes straight down to less than 1W up to 5W (WoL or other IPMI stuff).

 

[Scrizz]

I'm glad these fixes keep coming. I ended up purchasing an A380 for a family member's PC. It's working well.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Issue experienced by me:

Random access-violation crash with Unigine Superposition at launch. (Hopes that the other Vermeer isn't faulty) (the 5600X)

 

[HueSplat]

Odd this driver contains PCON firmware for DG2 chips. Maybe they might be trying to fix.

Yeah, on my Intel A770 LE the IFWI (VBIOS) version went from 20.1053.0 up to 20.1064.0
the installer does give you a warning about it.
Firmware update log attached because why not, i found it interesting, nobody else probably cares.

I am HOPING it may resolve an issue with GOP initialisation or detection, although I no longer have the same motherboard/cpu (5800X3D+ASUS VIII Impact) that i had this issue on, I was advised by Intel it should be resolved in a future firmware update and this is the only firmware update i have ever seen, pure speculation.
Reference if needed, known issue.

 

[Solaris17]

Intel it should be resolved in a future firmware update and this is the only firmware update i have ever seen, pure speculation.

They do it every driver update. I compiled the flash tool and assembled the firmware matrix if you ever want to play around or know more about the system in the stickies located in the Intel subforum.

Intel ARC GPUs

www.techpowerup.com

 

[HueSplat]

They do it every driver update. I compiled the flash tool and assembled the firmware matrix if you ever want to play around or know more about the system in the stickies located in the Intel subforum.

Intel ARC GPUs

www.techpowerup.com

Sweet as!

Sorry, i didnt realise this existed, i have only been monitoring the reported vbios versions which i dont recall changing since i purchased my A770 (late Feb or early March ish).
It has been a while since i looked into whats happening regarding ARC third party tools/software etc
Thanks for the work and contribution!

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

I lost minimum FPS and average FPS in Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme. I however got higher maximum FPS by a bit. But, I don't need "e-peen FPS"! I need consistency! But, it may be the August CU for Windows 11 causing this.