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.
Discussion (3 replies)
Join Discussion →When you start with a low bar, it's easy to see big gains.
That said, glad they are still pushing forward.
When will Intel drop it's first 4k gpu? Will they even need new hardware, a few more 750% improvements could do the job.
Still, I dont see any current cards including the new, what Arc A770 with 16gb is the high end now? For the price fairly impressive IMO.
Random thought, will Intel ever jump into the SLI type GPU thing? Is a B line coming as the next series of models with the new improved GPU cores?
Oh, and, when is the GPU market going to all ARM like it has been claimed the CPU's are?