Intel released drivers today for that new arc alchemist (opens in new tab) Discrete graphics boards, including the slightly mid-range A770 and A750 (cards that are on par with Nvidia’s 3060). This driver also brings improvements for users running older Intel integrated GPUs on 11th and 12th generation processors. The driver supports both Windows 10 and 11 and provides fixes for games such as Marvel’s Spider-Man, Overwatch 2 and Deathloop.
The driver package also includes the latest version of Arc Control and XeSS AI Enhanced Upscaling with GPUs that support it. The download serves as a boot driver for Arc A770 and A750. (opens in new tab) A770 limited edition board, and owner (opens in new tab) You can also use the Arc RGB controller to control the LEDs on your graphics card.
Fixes include Marvel’s Spider-Man no longer crashing when asked to do ray tracing, no more color corruption in Total Warhammer III, no more stuttering in Overwatch 2, no more multiplayer in Battlefield 2042 Also fixed a crash issue in player matches.
However, it poses some problems of its own. Setting Marvel’s Spider-Man to use HBAO+ with DirectX 12 can cause scene corruption. On the other hand, an Adobe Premiere Pro user may not be able to use his GPU for playback acceleration. Similarly, the A380 (opens in new tab) Owner has lack of hardware acceleration in Adobe Lightroom and crash bug in Affinity Photo. Arc Control has issues scaling between 1080p and 4K resolutions, application windows may go blank when using CMAA anti-aliasing, and may not update properly. Intel’s discrete GPUs are still in their early stages, and these are just the types of problems to expect.
This driver supports DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3.0, as well as version 1.7 of Intel’s oneAPI Level Zero and 2.7 of the oneAPI video processing library. The file with version number 31.0.101.3490 is available as a self-installing .exe file or as a .zip from Intel’s website. You can read the release notes as a PDF here.
