Intel has announced version 31.0.101.4090 of its graphics drivers, this time also fixing some issues on Core series processors’ integrated GPU.
This 1.2GB chunk of data adds support for newly-released Forspoken, fixes some freezes and crashes in A Plague Tale: Requiem, and repairs corruptions in Need for Speed: Unbound for Arc-based GPUs. For Iris iGPUs, the driver irons out some intermittent crashes in Total War: Warhammer III, and colour corruption in Need for Speed Unbound plus Battlefield: 2042.
Unfortunately, a wide range of problems are still popping up on Arc graphics cards due to their younger age, from which we note – a system hang while waking up from sleep mode, Arc Control Studio Camera losing its set position after system restart, and the unavailability of hardware acceleration on Adobe Premiere Pro. The latter is very much annoying since many took the risk of switching to Team Blue to be for AV1 encoding alongside the usual H.264 at low prices.
The full list of changes is as follows:
Gaming Support
- Forspoken
Fixed Issues
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (DX12) may experience application freeze and crash during gameplay.
- Need for Speed: Unbound (DX12) may exhibit box corruptions during gameplay.
Intel Core Processor Products:
- Need for Speed Unbound (DX12) May exhibit screen-space color corruption during gameplay.
- Total War: Warhammer III (DX11) May exhibit an intermittent application crash when launching the game.
- Battlefield: 2042 (DX12) May experience color corruption on certain maps.
Known Issues
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (DX12) may experience application crash during character selection.
- Halo Infinite (DX12) may exhibit color corruptions during gameplay.
- Sea of Thieves (DX11) may experience color corruption on water edges.
- Conqueror’s Blade (DX11) may experience corruption in benchmark mode.
- Call of Duty: Vanguard (DX12) may experience missing or corrupted shadows during the Submarine mission.
- System may hang while waking up from sleep. May need to power cycle the system for recovery.
- GPU hardware acceleration may not be available for media playback and encode with some versions of Adobe Premiere Pro.
- Blender may exhibit corruption while using Nishita Sky texture node.
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 Core Processor Products:
- Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption during gameplay.
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption during gameplay.
- Dysterra (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption during gameplay.
- Total War: Warhammer III (DX11) may experience an application crash when loading battle scenarios.
- Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 (DX12) may exhibit corruptions on certain buildings and floors during gameplay.
- Conqueror’s Blade (DX12) may experience application crash during game launch.
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (DX12) may experience application freeze and crash during gameplay.
Arc Control Known Issues
- Windows UAC Admin is required to install and launch Arc Control.
- Some applications may exhibit a transparent or blank window when CMAA is set to “Force ON” globally.
- A 1440p resolution selection in Arc Control Studio Capture may be unavailable when the display native resolution is 4K.
- Arc Control Studio Camera overlay position may not retain desired position and size after a system restart.
- The Arc Control Studio Camera tab may take longer than expected responsiveness upon the first navigation.
- Arc Control may report incorrect memory bandwidth value.
