Intel has released its latest Game On Driver, adding support for Stormgate while bringing a huge list of optimizations and fixes for current titles.
The release of Stormgate now sees support backed by Intel with its latest Game On Driver which should provide the best possible gaming experience on Arc GPUs (discrete and integrated). While addition of new games is a plus, Intel is also continuing its optimization run for existing titles with the latest one to see the "Fine Wine" uplift being Yakuza: Like a Dragon with up to 91% increase in performance and Metro: Last Light Complete Edition with up to 23% performance increase. These new drivers also fix several issues for Arc discrete and Core Ultra CPUs with Arc iGPUs. The full list of changes is provided below:
Gaming Highlights:
Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs for:
Stormgate
Game performance improvements on Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products versus Intel 31.0.101.5762 software driver for:
Yakuza: Like a Dragon (DX11)
Up to 91% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Up to 35% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Ultra settings
Up to 91% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Up to 35% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Ultra settings
Metro: Last Light Complete Edition (DX11)
Up to 20% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings
Up to 23% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Very High settings
Up to 20% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings
Up to 23% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Very High settings
Game performance improvements on Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs versus Intel 31.0.101.5762 software driver for:
Stormgate (DX11)
Up to 12% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings with Temporal Super Resolution enabled
Up to 12% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings with Temporal Super Resolution enabled
Fixed Issues:
Arc A-Series Graphics Products:
Dirt Rally (DX11) may exhibit corruption on water bodies while running the benchmark.
Sid Meier’s Civilization V (DX11) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (DX12) may experience application instability on the first launch of the game.
Blender 4.2 may exhibit corruption and incomplete scenes while rendering.
Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (DX12) may experience application instability on the first launch of the game.
Known Issues:
Arc A-Series Graphics Products:
Doom Eternal (VK) may exhibit intermittent flickering corruption in the game menu and during gameplay.
Topaz Video AI may experience errors when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements.
Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may experience an application crash on loading to gameplay.
Enshrouded (VK) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
Diablo IV (DX12) may experience an application crash with ray tracing settings enabled.
Fortnite game may crash while performing Alt + Tab operations
SPECworkstation3.1 may exhibit system instability while running certain workloads.
Procyon AI may experience an application crash while running the benchmark with precision float32.
Core Processor (12th-14th Generation) Products:
Dragon Quest X Online (DX9) may experience sporadic application crashes during gameplay.
Arc Control Known Issues:
Arc Control Studio capture recording file may become corrupted when the mouse cursor is enabled during HDR capture.
Schedule Updates for Drivers may not work intermittently.
Arc Control Studio capture or stream may not stop intermittently when using the stop option.
A workaround is to use the Exit app option in Settings to stop the recording.
