Intel has released a new Arc GPU driver, version 101.6253, which brings fixes for the latest "B-series" GPUs, as well as improvements for several games and software.
Driver v101.6253 "Game On"
This "beta" driver update focuses on addressing issues with the new Battlemage "B-series" GPUs, which have seen high demand recently. Additionally, it includes bug fixes for games like *The Crew: Motorfest*, *Elden Ring*, and improvements for commercial software like Topaz Labs.
Fixed Issues
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
- The Crew Motorfest (VK): Fixed flickering corruptions in certain scenes.
- Saleco (VK): Fixed application crash during game launch.
- Elden Ring (DX12): Fixed stuttering during gameplay in certain scenes.
- Homeworld 3 (DX12): Fixed application crash during game launch.
- F1 24 (DX12): Fixed stuttering during gameplay with ray tracing quality set to high.
- Addressed corruption issues during night scenes in games.
Known Issues
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
- F1 24 (DX12) with XeSS FG may exhibit certain corruptions and applications crashes.
- Recommendation is to toggle XeSS FG settings in the game menu before starting a race.
- The "Alt + Enter" shortcut may cause crashes because XeSS 2 doesn't support exclusive fullscreen mode.
- Skull and Bones (DX12): May experience an application crash while launching gameplay.
- MLPerf: May exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations (disable iGPU as workaround).
- Topaz Labs Photo AI: May exhibit corruptions with certain image enhancement operations.
- Magix Vegas Pro: May exhibit corruptions when using style transfer feature.
- Dassault Systèmes CATIA: May experience application crash when using HQAO option.
- Certain capture cards may exhibit visual artifacts in some scenarios.
- Adobe Lightroom Classic: May experience lower than expected performance.
- Workaround: Go to Edit, Preferences, Performance and choose "Custom" in Graphics Processor. Then set "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 crash while exporting images.
Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
- 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.
- 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.
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare III (DX12): May experience flickering during gameplay.
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 benchmark preset set to Extended.
- Davinci Resolve Studio v19.0: May experience issues while rendering certain OpenVino test scenarios.
- 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: Black Ops 6 (DX12): May exhibit black shadow corruption in certain scenes during gameplay.
- Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered (DX12): May experience crash during gameplay with frame generation enabled.
Intel Graphics Software Known Issues:
- Intel Graphics Software may experience an application crash when navigating pages or dialog boxes due to framework issues.
- The application can be re-launched without issue as a workaround. A fix will be made available in IGS once WinAppSDK 1.7 is available.
- 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 detects plug and play events from Windows and reconfigures the user interface which is higher than expected. IGS optimizations will be made available soon.
- 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 by this crash again.
- 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 Performance Tuning (BETA):
- Performance Tuning is currently in Beta and as such 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.
