Intel has released the newest Arc Graphics driver, which now supports Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and offers new performance improvements across the board.
Intel's continued optimizations keep on showing up within the new Arc graphics drivers which now support multiple games and bring performance improvements with several titles receiving double-digit gains.
Gaming Highlights:
Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics GPUs for:
Arena Breakout: Infinite
Deadlock
NBA 2K25
Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs for:
Deadlock
NBA 2K25
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Game performance improvements on Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products versus Intel 31.0.101.5972 software driver for:
Deadlock (DX11)
Up to 17% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Best Looking settings
Up to 13% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Best Looking settings
Up to 17% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Best Looking settings
Up to 13% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Best Looking settings
Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown (DX12)
Up to 19% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Up to 19% average FPS uplift at 1440p with High settings
Up to 19% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Up to 19% average FPS uplift at 1440p with High settings
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (DX12)
Up to 7% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Up to 8% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Ultra settings
Up to 7% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
Up to 8% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Ultra settings
Diablo IV (DX12) may intermittently crash while toggling Ray Tracing settings during gameplay.
Doom Eternal (VK) may exhibit intermittent flickering corruption in the game menu and during gameplay.
Blender may experience application crashes while rendering certain benchmark scenes.
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:
Enshrouded (VK) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
Diablo IV (DX12) may experience an application crash with ray tracing settings enabled.
Horizon Forbidden West (DX12) may experience color corruption during gameplay.
Fortnite (DX12) game may crash while performing Alt + Tab operations
SPECworkstation3.1 may exhibit system instability while running certain workloads.
CATIA texts may not appear in the quality toolbar with HQAO settings
Procyon AI may experience an application crash while running the benchmark with precision float32.
Intel Arc Control Known Issues:
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
While things may not be competitive for Intel on the hardware side, the firm has managed to keep itself head-to-head with others on the software side of things, providing early support for newer titles, notable examples being Black Myth: Wukong and Call of Duty 6.
