Starfield, Bethesda’s new space-faring RPG, continues to suffer from a range of potential problems when played on Intel Arc GPUs, including sporadic instability in some areas of the game, low texture details on certain objects, and corruption when using the Dynamic Resolution Scaling feature. All of these problems, and more, have been confirmed in the release notes that Intel has shared for its latest Graphics Driver (31.0.101.4824) for Arc A-Series Graphics and Intel Iris Xe Graphics, which was released yesterday with support for The Crew Motorfest and Mortal Kombat 1, now available in early access. Bethesda mentioned in a blog post yesterday that it is working closely with Intel, as well as NVIDIA and AMD, to improve driver support and performance for Starfield.
Intel Graphics Driver 31.0.101.4824 Patch Notes
GAMING HIGHLIGHTS:
Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics for:
- The Crew Motorfest
- Mortal Kombat 1
FIXED ISSUES:
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- Fortnite (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruptions during gameplay.
- Device fan may ramp up frequently on certain Intel Arc Graphics products.
Intel Core Processor Products:
- Tactics Ogre Reborn (DX11) may exhibit flickering corruption during dialogue sequences
KNOWN ISSUES:
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- Starfield (DX12) may experience sporadic instability in some areas of the game.
- Starfield (DX12) may exhibit corruption when using Dynamic Resolution Scaling. A workaround is to change the Render Resolution Scale slider value.
- Starfield (DX12) may exhibit low texture details on certain objects in the game.
- Starfield (DX12) may exhibit texture flickering on light sources during gameplay.
- UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption on characters.
- Halo Infinite (DX12) campaign may experience an application crash on some system configurations.
- Dead by Daylight (DX11) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
- Topaz Video AI may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement.
- Adobe After Effects may experience an application crash during render operations.
- Some Intel Arc A-Series Graphics notebooks may incorrectly report a higher value than expected for default clock frequency value.
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.