Intel® Arc™ Graphics Windows* DCH Driver 3x Series (WDDM 3.0 & WDDM 3.1)

Intel released a new version Intel® Arc™ Graphics Windows* DCH Beta Driver 31.0.101.4257 for Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics and Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics. on March 28, 2023

Release Version: Beta
Intel® Graphics Driver: 31.0.101.4257
Build Date: March 23, 2023
DriverVer = 03/23/2023, 31.0.101.4257
WHQL cert. and signed from March 28, 2023

Operating Systems:
• Microsoft Windows* 10-64 - October 2020 Update (20H2)
• Microsoft Windows* 10-64 - November 2021 Update (21H2)
• Microsoft Windows* 10-64 - May 2021 Update (21H1)
• Microsoft Windows* 11-64 - October 2021 Update (21H2)
• Microsoft Windows* 11-64 - September 2022 (22H2)

Platforms:
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family (Codename Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake, Tiger Lake-H)
12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) 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)
Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Dedicated Graphics family (Codename DG1)
Intel(R) Arc(TM) Graphics family (Codename Alchemist)

NOTES
• This Intel® Arc™ software package is bundled with the latest version of Intel® Arc™ Control
to streamline installation experience, resulting in a larger driver package file size.
• Intel® Arc™ Control will now display a notification on supported configurations if Resizable Bar is not enabled.
• Support for Xe Super Sampling (XeSS): Take your gaming experience to the next level with AI-enhanced
upscaling, enabling more performance with high image fidelity. For more information on game support
please click here .
• Take your system lighting to the next level with Intel® Arc™ RGB Controller. Intel® Arc™ RGB Controller
was custom designed to allow users to harness 90 individually addressable LEDs on Intel® Arc™ A770 GraphicsLimited Edition cards.
Intel® Arc™ RGB Controller is available for download here .
o Supported on Intel® Arc™ A770 Graphics Limited Edition on Windows®10 and Windows®11.
o Intel® and Cooler Master* collaborated on the creation of this software.
o For more information on how to enable the RGB lighting for your Intel® Arc™ A770
Graphics Limited Edition card, see the Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics – Desktop Quick Start Guide .

GAMING HIGHLIGHTS
Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics for:
• Crime Boss*

Game performance optimizations on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics for:
• None

FIXED ISSUES:
Intel® Arc™ Graphics Products:
• None

Intel® Core™ Processor Products:
• None

KNOWN ISSUES:
Intel® Arc™ Graphics Products:
• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020* (DX11) may experience application crash during gameplay.
• Sea of Thieves* (DX11) may exhibit color corruption on water edges.
• System may hang while waking up from sleep. May need to power cycle the system for recovery.
• GPU hardware acceleration may not be available for media playback and encode with some versions of Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve* may exhibit color corruption with Optical Flow.

Intel® Iris™ X MAX Graphics Products:
• Driver installation may not complete successfully on certain notebook systems with both Intel® Iris™ Xe + Iris™ Xe MAX devices. A system reboot and re-installation of the graphics driver may be required for successful installation.

Intel® Core™ Processor Products:
• Total War: Warhammer III* (DX11) may experience an application crash when loading battle scenarios.
• Call of Duty Warzone 2.0* (DX12) may exhibit corruption on certain light sources such as fire.
• Conqueror's Blade* (DX12) may experience an application crash during game launch.
• A Plague Tale: Requiem* (DX12) may experience application instability during gameplay.
• Battlefield: 2042*(DX12) may exhibit color corruption at the game menu.
• Crime boss*(DX12) may experience texture flickering when XESS is enabled.

Intel® Arc™ Control Known Issues
• Windows UAC Admin is required to install and launch Arc Control.
• The Live Performance Monitoring page may not apply the desired removal of some performance metric tiles.
• The Resizable Bar status may show an incorrect value on systems with multiple Intel® Graphics Adapters.
• Using Arc Control Studio capture with certain games may incorrectly generate multiple video files.

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.

Supported Subsystem IDs:


Contents of the Package:


Info and Download: www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download...dch-driver-beta.html
Release Notes: downloadmirror.intel.com/774719/ReleaseNotes_101.4257_BETA.pdf
Direct Download: downloadmirror.intel.com/774719/gfx_win_101.4257.exe

Cheers
Tom

New beta version:

downloadmirror.intel.com/776400/gfx_win_101.4311.exe
downloadmirror.intel.com/776400/ReleaseNotes_101.4311_BETA.pdf

Intel® Arc™ A-Series and Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics Driver - BETA v31.0.101.4311
Release Date April 13, 2023

More Info - www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download...cs-beta-windows.html
Release Notes - downloadmirror.intel.com/776400/ReleaseNotes_101.4311_BETA.pdf

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)
Intel® Iris® Xe Dedicated Graphics family (Codename DG1)
Intel ® Arc™ Graphics (Codename Alchemist)
Release Notes (.pdf)

GAMING HIGHLIGHTS:

Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics for:
Boundary*
Minecraft Legends*
Total War: Warhammer III – Mirror of Madness*
Dead Island 2*
Game performance improvements versus Intel® 31.0.101.4257 software driver for:
Dead Space Remake* (DX12)
Up to 55% uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings on Arc A750
Up to 63% uplift at 1440p with High settings on Arc A750
F1 22* (DX12)
Up to 6% uplift at 1440p with High settings on Arc A770
Up to 7% uplift at 1440p with High settings on Arc A750
Up to 17% uplift at 1080p with Ultra High Ray Tracing settings on Arc A750
Dying Light 2 Stay Human* (DX12)
Up to 6% uplift at 1080p with High Ray Tracing settings preset on Arc A770
Up to 7% uplift at 1440p with High Ray Tracing settings preset on Arc A770
Dirt 5* (DX1
Up to 8% uplift at 1080p with Ultra High Ray Tracing settings on Arc A750
Up to 4% uplift at 1440p with Ultra High Ray Tracing settings on Arc A750
Deathloop* (DX12)
Up to 4% uplift at 1080p with Very High and Ray Tracing Performance settings on Arc A750
Up to 6% uplift at 1440p with Very High and Ray Tracing Performance settings on Arc A750
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FIXED ISSUES:

Intel® Arc™ Graphics Products:
Microsoft Flight Simulator* (DX11) may experience application crash during gameplay.
Sea of Thieves* (DX11) may exhibit color corruption on water edges.
Bright Memory Infinite Ray Tracing Benchmark* (DX12) may experience lower than expected performance.
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve* may exhibit color corruption with Optical Flow.
KNOWN ISSUES:

Intel Arc Graphics Products:
System may hang while waking up from sleep. May need to power cycle the system for recovery.
GPU hardware acceleration may not be available for media playback and encode with some versions of Adobe Premiere Pro.
Topaz Video AI* may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement.
Intel® Iris™ Xe MAX Graphics Products:
Driver installation may not complete successfully on certain notebook systems with both Intel® Iris™ X e + Iris™ X e MAX devices. A system reboot and re-installation of the graphics driver may be required for successful installation.
Intel® Core™ Processor Products:
Total War: Warhammer III* (DX11) may experience an application crash when loading battle scenarios.
Call of Duty Warzone 2.0* (DX12) may exhibit corruption on certain buildings and floors during gameplay.
Conqueror's Blade* (DX12) may experience an application crash during game launch.
A Plague Tale: Requiem* (DX12) may experience application instability during gameplay
Battlefield: 2042*(DX12) may exhibit color corruption at the game menu.
Crime boss*(DX12) may experience texture flickering when XESS is enabled.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may experience color corruption in QuickPlay Lobby
INTEL® ARC™ CONTROL KNOWN ISSUES:
Windows UAC Admin is required to install and launch Arc Control.
The Live Performance Monitoring page may not apply the desired removal of some performance metric tiles.
The Resizable Bar status may show an incorrect value on systems with multiple Intel® Graphics Adapters.
Using Arc Control Studio capture with certain games may incorrectly generate multiple video files.
With Intel® Arc Control installed, systems may experience slightly higher than expected power consumption during system sleep or hibernate.
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.

Download:
Windows 10 and Windows 11 64-bit - downloadmirror.intel.com/776400/gfx_win_101.4311.exe
 

Intel® Arc™ & Iris® Xe Graphics Drivers v31.0.101.4314​ WHQL
Release Date: April 25, 2023

GAMING HIGHLIGHTS:

Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics for:

Resident Evil 4 Remake*
Elden Ring RT Update*

Performance optimizations on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics for:

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy*
D5 Render*
Blender* in Material Preview viewport mode
Counter Strike Global Offensive* on Intel® Arc™ Graphics for Laptops

FIXED ISSUES:

Intel® Arc™ Graphics Products:

Conqueror’s Blade* (DX11) may exhibit corruption in benchmark mode.
Portal with RTX* (Vulkan) may experience application crash when loading to gameplay.

Intel® Core™ Processor Products:

Overwatch 2*(DX12) may see lag or freeze while launching the game.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2*(DX12) may experience application crash during gameplay

KNOWN ISSUES:

Intel® Arc™ Graphics Products:

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020* (DX11) may experience application crash during gameplay.
Diablo 4 (Beta)* may exhibit corruption on character during gameplay with ‘Highlight Character When Obscured’ setting enabled.
Sea of Thieves* (DX11) may exhibit color corruption on water edges.
System may hang while waking up from sleep. May need to power cycle the system for recovery.
GPU hardware acceleration may not be available for media playback and encode with some versions of Adobe Premiere Pro.
Blender may exhibit corruption while using Nishita Sky texture node.
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve* may exhibit color corruption with Optical Flow.

Intel® Iris™ Xe MAX Graphics Products:

Driver installation may not complete successfully on certain notebook systems with both Intel® Iris™ X e + Iris™ X e MAX devices. A system reboot and re-installation of the graphics driver may be required for successful installation.

Intel® Core™ Processor Products:

Total War: Warhammer III* (DX11) may experience an application crash when loading battle scenarios. • Call of Duty Warzone 2.0* (DX12) may exhibit corruption on certain light sources such as fire.
Conqueror's Blade* (DX12) may experience an application crash during game launch.
A Plague Tale: Requiem* (DX12) may experience application instability during gameplay.
Battlefield: 2042*(DX12) may exhibit color corruption at the game menu.

INTEL® ARC™ CONTROL FIXED ISSUES:

Using Arc Control Studio capture with AVC codec selected may incorrectly use the HEVC codec.

Modifying performance sliders may fail to apply back to their default values. A workaround is to use the "Reset to Defaults" button.

INTEL® ARC™ CONTROL KNOWN ISSUES:

Windows UAC Admin is required to install and launch Arc Control.
The Live Performance Monitoring page may not apply the desired removal of some performance metric tiles.
The Resizable Bar status may show an incorrect value on systems with multiple Intel® Graphics Adapters.
Using Arc Control Studio capture with certain games may incorrectly generate multiple video files.

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.

Information:
www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download...cs-whql-windows.html

Release Notes:
downloadmirror.intel.com/777403/ReleaseNotes_101.4314_WHQL.pdf

Readme: 
downloadmirror.intel.com/777403/readme.txt

Download:
downloadmirror.intel.com/777403/gfx_win_101.4314.exe

Intel released a new version Intel® Arc™ Graphics Windows* DCH Beta Driver 31.0.101.4335 for Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics and Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics. on April 26, 2023

Release Version: Beta
Intel® Graphics Driver: 31.0.101.4335
Build Date: April 21, 2023
DriverVer = 04/21/2023, 31.0.101.4335
WHQL cert. and signed from April 25, 2023

Operating Systems:
• Microsoft Windows* 10-64 - October 2020 Update (20H2)
• Microsoft Windows* 10-64 - November 2021 Update (21H2)
• Microsoft Windows* 10-64 - May 2021 Update (21H1)
• Microsoft Windows* 11-64 - October 2021 Update (21H2)
• Microsoft Windows* 11-64 - September 2022 (22H2)

Platforms:
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family (Codename Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake, Tiger Lake-H)
12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) 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)
Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Dedicated Graphics family (Codename DG1)
Intel(R) Arc(TM) Graphics family (Codename Alchemist)

NOTES
• This Intel® Arc™ software package is bundled with the latest version of Intel® Arc™ Control
to streamline installation experience, resulting in a larger driver package file size.
• Intel® Arc™ Control will now display a notification on supported configurations if Resizable Bar is not enabled.
• Support for Xe Super Sampling (XeSS): Take your gaming experience to the next level with AI-enhanced
upscaling, enabling more performance with high image fidelity. For more information on game support
please click here .
• Take your system lighting to the next level with Intel® Arc™ RGB Controller. Intel® Arc™ RGB Controller
was custom designed to allow users to harness 90 individually addressable LEDs on Intel® Arc™ A770 GraphicsLimited Edition cards.
Intel® Arc™ RGB Controller is available for download here .
o Supported on Intel® Arc™ A770 Graphics Limited Edition on Windows®10 and Windows®11.
o Intel® and Cooler Master* collaborated on the creation of this software.
o For more information on how to enable the RGB lighting for your Intel® Arc™ A770
Graphics Limited Edition card, see the Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics – Desktop Quick Start Guide .

GAMING HIGHLIGHTS
Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics for:
• Star Wars Jedi Survivor*
• The Swordsmen X: Survival*
• Redfall*

Game performance optimizations on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics for:
• none

FIXED ISSUES:
Intel® Arc™ Graphics Products:
• none

Intel® Core™ Processor Products:
• none

KNOWN ISSUES:
Intel® Arc™ Graphics Products:
• System may hang while waking up from sleep. May need to power cycle the system for recovery.
• GPU hardware acceleration may not be available for media playback and encode with some versions of Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Topaz Video AI* may experience errors when using some models for video enhancement.

Intel® Iris™ X MAX Graphics Products:
• Driver installation may not complete successfully on certain notebook systems with both Intel® Iris™ Xe + Iris™ Xe MAX devices. A system reboot and re-installation of the graphics driver may be required for successful installation.

Intel® Core™ Processor Products:
• Total War: Warhammer III* (DX11) may experience an application crash when loading battle scenarios.
• Call of Duty Warzone 2.0* (DX12) may exhibit corruption on certain light sources such as fire.
• Conqueror's Blade* (DX12) may experience an application crash during game launch.
• A Plague Tale: Requiem* (DX12) may experience application instability during gameplay.
• Battlefield: 2042*(DX12) may exhibit color corruption at the game menu.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may experience color corruption in QuickPlay Lobby

Intel® Arc™ Control Known Issues
• Windows UAC Admin is required to install and launch Arc Control.
• The Live Performance Monitoring page may not apply the desired removal of some performance metric tiles.
• The Resizable Bar status may show an incorrect value on systems with multiple Intel® Graphics Adapters.
• Using Arc Control Studio capture with certain games may incorrectly generate multiple video files.
• With Intel® Arc Control installed, systems may experience slightly higher than expected power consumption during system sleep or hibernate.

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.

Supported Subsystem IDs:


Contents of the Package:


Info and Download: www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download...cs-beta-windows.html
Release Notes: downloadmirror.intel.com/777608/ReleaseNotes_101.4335_BETA.pdf
Direct Download: downloadmirror.intel.com/777608/gfx_win_101.4335.exe

Cheers
Tom