The Intel Graphics Driver 31.0.101.5333 (WHQL Certified) for Intel Arc A-Series Graphics, Intel Iris Xe Graphics, and Intel Core Ultra Processors with Intel Arc Graphics is now available to download, per an update on Intel’s Drivers & Software site. Users will find support for Last Epoch and Sea of Thieves’ DirectX 12 Update, as well as significant performance improvements for select DirectX 11 games under 1080p settings versus the older 31.0.101.5252 driver.
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Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics and Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs for:
- Last Epoch
- Sea of Thieves DirectX 12 Update
Game performance improvements on Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs versus Intel 31.0.101.5252 software driver for:
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (DX11)
- Up to 65% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (DX11)
- Up to 17% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Normal settings
- Divinity Original Sin 2 (DX11)
- Up to 25% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Far Cry 5 (DX11)
- Up to 8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Normal settings
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection (DX11)
- Up to 19% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Original settings
- It Takes Two (DX11)
- Up to 24% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Just Cause 3 (DX11)
- Up to 18% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Just Cause 4 (DX11)
- Up to 155% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Palworld (DX11)
- Up to 14% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Rise of the Tomb Raider (DX11)
- Up to 9% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Rust (DX11)
- Up to 9% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- SCUM (DX11)
- Up to 6% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (DX11)
- Up to 27% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Snowrunner (DX11)
- Up to 49% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- Warframe (DX11)
- Up to 7% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
- XCOM 2 (DX11)
- Up to 8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
Platform (OS Support)
- 11th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake, Tiger Lake-H)
- 12th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Alder Lake-S, Alder Lake-H, Alder Lake-P, Alder Lake-U, Alder Lake-HX, Alder Lake-N)
- 13th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Raptor Lake-S, Raptor Lake-HX, Raptor Lake-H, Raptor Lake-P, Raptor Lake-U)
- 14th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Raptor Lake Refresh)
- Intel Core Ultra processor family (Codename Meteor Lake)
- Intel Iris Xe Dedicated Graphics family (Codename DG1)
- Intel Arc Graphics family (Codename Alchemist)
Discussion (7 replies)
Join Discussion →Those gains are amazing... or not so great depending on the starting point. ;)
It’s amazing when you just optimize for a handful of games at a time - then every driver is like +99999% better*
* for selected titles
Good to see they are keeping up with these, shows they are still commited.
Why this happens?
Yes I know it happens all the time, and there are reasons... but to me it tells you how garbage the standards are.
How garbage implementations are everywhere. Something is simply broken, sure we are just used to it being fixed literally routinely, but doesn't mean this Frankenstein monster of patches is the way things should be.
Drivers shouldn't have these impacts like these for specific games and such in my view, its an absurdity.
How to fix it I don't know. Perhaps we should ask the programming AI to comeup with better standars or something.
The problem is not the drivers, it's the games that are badly optimised and require fixes on a driver level, GPU manufacturers should stop this trend but they refuse as it's a way for them to get better results and better sales of their hardware as a result.
It's worth noting that the increases detailed in the release notes are specific to the Meteor Lake laptop series integrated GPUs, not desktop Arc A- series GPUs.
Still, good to see continued progress!
Yea in have a meteor lake laptop so neat. I didn't even check lol.