Intel has announced that the Intel Graphics Driver 31.0.101.4952 for Intel Arc A-Series Graphics and Intel Iris Xe Graphics is now available for download. The new driver, which weighs in at 707.2 MB, adds support for four new titles: The Talos Principle 2, Robocop: Rogue City, Star Ocean II R, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, and Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. Intel’s release notes also suggest a number of performance improvements over the previous drivers, including what is said to be a 750% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Enhanced settings for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, 343 Industries’ 180 GB collection of classic Halo games that received its last major update on July 12. Yakuza 0 also sees up to a 154% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings.
Intel Arc Game On Driver 31.0.101.4952 Gaming Highlights
Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics for:
- The Talos Principle 2
- Robocop: Rogue City
- Star Ocean II R
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
- Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Game performance improvements versus Intel 31.0.101.4900 software driver for:
- The Talos Principle 2 (DX12)
- Up to 19% average FPS uplift at 1440p with High settings
- Returnal (DX12)
- Up to 53% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Epic Ray Tracing settings
Game performance improvements versus Intel 31.0.101.4887 software driver for:
- Guild Wars 2 (DX11)
- Up to 53% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection (DX11)
- Up to 750% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Enhanced settings
- Sid Meier’s Civilization V (DX11)
- Up to 6% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings
- Total War: Warhammer (DX11)
- Up to 10% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Lost Ark (DX11)
- Up to 15% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Very High settings
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 (DX11)
- Up to 16% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Extreme settings
- Sniper Elite 3 (DX11)
- Up to 37% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- World War Z (DX11)
- Up to 113% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- EuroTruck Simulator 2 (DX11)
- Up to 27% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Yakuza 0 (DX11)
- Up to 154% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (DX11)
- Up to 20% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Alien: Isolation (DX11)
- Up to 9% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Far Cry Primal (DX11)
- Up to 14% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Far Cry 5 (DX11)
- Up to 14% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- Far Cry New Dawn (DX11)
- Up to 11% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Known Issues
Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- Ghostrunner 2 (DX11) may experience sporadic application crash during gameplay.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
