Intel has announced that the Intel Graphics Driver 31.0.101.4887 for Intel Arc A-Series Graphics and Intel Iris Xe Graphics is now available for download. The new driver, which weighs in at 702.8 MB, not only introduces support for Arc A580 Graphics and Game On Driver support for Total War: PHARAOH, Lords of the Fallen, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’s upcoming beta, but it also ushers in a number of game performance improvements, including what is said to be up to a 149% uplift in Starfield at select resolutions and settings versus the previous driver. Starfield, however, still suffers from at least two major issues on Arc graphics, including potential instances of texture corruption, according to the release notes.
Intel Graphics Driver 31.0.101.4887 Release Notes
HIGHLIGHTS
- Support for Intel Arc A580 Graphics.
GAMING HIGHLIGHTS:
Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics for:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Beta
- Total War: PHARAOH
- Lords of the Fallen
Game performance improvements versus Intel 31.0.101.4885 software driver for:
- Starfield (DX12)
- Up to 117% uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Up to 149% uplift at 1440p with High settings
- Forza Motorsport (DX12)
- Up to 8% uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Game performance improvements versus Intel 31.0.101.4826 software driver for:
- F1 23 (DX12)
- Up to 12% uplift at 1440p with Ultra High settings
- Up to 136% uplift at 2160p with Ultra High settings
FIXED ISSUES:
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- Minecraft (DX12) may exhibit color corruptions in night scenes when ray tracing setting is on.
KNOWN ISSUES:
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- Total War: PHARAOH (DX11) may exhibit corruption after changing resolution in game on certain displays.
- 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 texture corruptions on certain objects and light sources during gameplay.
- 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.
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 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.
- Arc Control may not retain overall application settings in Overlay mode after system reboot. A workaround is to use Desktop mode of Arc Control.
Intel Arc Control Performance Tuning (BETA):
- Intel Arc Control Performance Tuning is currently in Beta. As such, performance and features may behave unexpectedly. Intel will continue to refine the Performance Tuning software in future releases.