Intel has released Arc graphics Game On beta driver with loads of fixes and improvements. The driver brings day 1 support for Madden NFL 23 and Saints Row.
The main fixes include Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered performance issues in DX12, Shadow of the Tomb Raider crashing when setting ray-tracing shadows set to high, Texture corruption in Battlefield 2042, Arc Control fixes and a bug where windows update would override a more recent version of Arc drivers. You can see the full change log below…
GAMING HIGHLIGHTS
• Intel Game On Driver support for Saints Row*and Madden NFL 23* on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics.
FIXED ISSUES
• Marvel’s Spider-Man* (DX12) may experience lower than expected performance on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics.
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider* (DX12) may experience an app crash when setting Ray Traced Shadow Quality to High. A workaround is to change to the Medium or OFF setting.
• Texture corruption may be observed in Battlefield 2042* (DX12) in certain maps.
• Some objects and textures in Halo Infinite* (DX12) may render black and fail to load.
• Stray* (DX11) may exhibit a TDR or application hang during gameplay.
• Horizon Zero Dawn* (DX12) may experience an app crash or system hang during gameplay.
• Windows Update may incorrectly override a more recent version of Intel® Arc™ A-series drivers.
INTEL ARC CONTROL FIXED ISSUES
• In-Game Overlay Telemetry may stop responding after navigating the Performance Graphs section.
• In-Game Overlay Telemetry graphs may intermittently be unavailable for certain Overlay Metrics.
• In-Game Overlay Telemetry graph value title may be intermittently missing.
• In-Game Overlay Telemetry window may incorrectly be present on desktop after a system restart.
• In-Game Overlay Telemetry “Media Activity” value may incorrectly show a negative percentage.
• GPU Info section in System Info tab may incorrectly show a GPU Frequency of “1MHz”.
• Adjusting the filename in Capture or Highlights may intermittently only be changed to numeric values.
• Adjusting the filename in Capture or Highlights may incorrectly ignore desired file output name.
• Disabling certain Menu Customization widgets may incorrectly become re-enabled after a system restart.
• The “Broadcast” toggle in the Studio tab may become unavailable when entering in stream URL information.
• A duplicate custom image may be present when using the Background Replacement in the Camera tab.
• Arc Control may intermittently become unresponsive when using “Go Live” while “Sharp Stream” is enabled in the Broadcast tab.
• Keyboard and mouse inputs may be ignored on a secondary display while Arc Control is opened on the primary display.
• Arc Control may incorrectly retain larger scaled size when adjusting a lower display resolution to a higher display resolution.
• Mouse-scrolling may be unresponsive on certain Arc Control UI elements such as “Your Games” and “Live Performance Monitoring”
• Arc Control now accepts “PrintScreen” for capturing Arc Control screenshots.
• Enabling “Smooth Sync” may exhibit display corruption in certain game titles.
• A one-time disclaimer now appears when adjusting any Performance Tuning values.
Intel Arc Control Performance Tuning (BETA):
• “Reset to defaults” button in Performance Tuning may not be present.
• An incorrect error notification may be observed when resetting Performance Tuning values to defaults.
• Adjusting GPU Voltage Offset may incorrectly display multiple decimal point values.
• Adjusting GPU Power Limit to the maximum value may display the slider at the middle point.
• Adjusting Performance Tuning values with a keyboard may intermittently be non-responsive.
• Adjusting Performance Tuning values with a keyboard may return an undesired slider value.
• Adjusting Performance Tuning sliders with a mouse may intermittently become stuck to the slider.
• The Apply button in Performance Tuning may be unresponsive when setting GPU Performance Boost to “0”.
• The Apply button in Performance Tuning may incorrectly be highlighted after using “Reset to defaults” button.
• The Apply button in Performance Tuning may be unresponsive when changing sliders from higher to lower
values.
• A “NaN” value in Performance Tuning may be exhibited when inputting non-numeral entries
KNOWN ISSUES
• Marvel’s Spider-Man* (DX12) may exhibit a soft lock when attempting to take a picture of the Empire State Building.
• Marvel’s Spider-Man* (DX12) may exhibit an application crash when loading into the game with Ray-Traced Reflections enabled.
• Movies and TV Application may experience a hang during HDR video playback and changing video to Fullscreen.
• Call of Duty: Vanguard* (DX12) may experience lower than expected performance in the game menu
• Gears 5* (DX12) may experience an application crash, system hang or TDR during gameplay.
• Some third-party camera applications may exhibit video corruption when playing the recorded video in Fullscreen
• Sniper Elite 5* (DX12) may experience an application crash on some Hybrid Graphics system configurationswhen Windows® “Graphics Performance Preference” option for the application is not set to “High Performance”.
• Map textures may fail to load or may load as blank surfaces when playing CrossFire*.
• Some Intel® Arc™ A380 series graphics product fans may continue running when the graphics card or system is
idle
INTEL ARC CONTROL KNOWN ISSUES
• Windows UAC Admin is required to install and launch Arc Control.
• Some applications may exhibit a transparent or blank window when CMAA is set to “Force ON” globally.
• Some applications may exhibit pixel corruption when Sharpening Filter is enabled globally.
• Opening Arc Control in some game titles with ALT+I during gameplay may not correctly appear.
• Using Arc Control Studio Capture with “In Stream” mode enabled may not correctly record entire clip when under a 1080p resolution setting.
• Recording with Arc Control Studio Capture and “In Stream” mode enabled may not save the output video file at the desired length.
• Streaming with Arc Control Studio Capture and “In Stream” mode enabled may cause unexpected connection
instability to the desired platform.
• A 1440p resolution selection in Arc Control Studio Capture may be unavailable when the display native resolution is 4K.
• Arc Control Studio Camera overlay position may not retain desired position and size after a system restart.
• Hot-plugging peripheral devices such as cameras, microphones, or displays while Arc Control is open may cause Arc Control to become unresponsive.
• Arc Control may not scale automatically when changing from a 1080p resolution to a 4K resolution.
• Some image types may not load when using Arc Control Camera “Background Replacement” option.
• Some Arc Control Telemetry metrics may not align with 3rd party applications or built-in OS functions.
• The Arc Control Studio Camera tab may take longer than expected responsiveness upon the first navigation.
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.
• Adjusting Performance Tuning values from a higher value to a lower value may cause tuning values to reset to default.
You can download the driver from Intel’s site here.
