Intel Arc B570 Ships Early: Gamer Mods Drivers to Make it Work

In a surprising turn of events, the Intel Arc B570 GPU has shipped a month ahead of its official launch date due to a retailer error. A lucky gamer managed to get their hands on the card and successfully modified existing drivers to make it work. Early Release Due to Retailer Mix-Up A German retailer had initially announced preorders for Intel's new Battlemage GPU with a launch date of January 16th, only to later confirm the card was already in stock. Due to a mix-up, the cards were shipped to customers ahead of schedule. A user on the PC Games Hardware forum, “ Cross-Flow ,” received an ASRock Arc B570 Challenger but faced a challenge due to the lack of official drivers. He bypassed this issue by force-installing the existing B580 driver, ignoring checksum errors through Device Manager. He experimented with "every executable file in the directory" until a driver was installed that worked, albeit not perfectly. Modified Driver Results The system recognized the GPU as "Arc…