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Installing this Intel generic graphics driver will overwrite your computer manufacturer (OEM) customized driver. OEM drivers are handpicked and include customized features and solutions to platform-specific issues.

The generic Intel driver provides users the latest and greatest feature enhancements and bug fixes that OEMs may not have customized yet to address platform-specific needs. Users can check for matching OEM versions at OEM websites.

GAMING HIGHLIGHTS:

- Intel Game On Driver support for Saints Rowand 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 configurations when 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.

CONTENTS OF THE PACKAGE:

- Intel Graphics Driver
- Intel Media SDK Runtime (21.0.1.35)
- Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime (21.0.2.7)
- Intel Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL Driver
- Vulkan Runtime Installer
- Intel Graphics Driver Installer (1.0.653.0)
- oneAPI Level Zero Loader and Validation Layer
- Intel Graphics Compute Runtime for OneAPI Level Zero specification
- Intel Arc Control installer
- Intel Driver Support Assistant

OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT:

- Microsoft Windows 10-64 - October 2020 Update (20H2)
- Microsoft Windows 10-64 - May 2021 Update (21H1)
- Microsoft Windows 10-64 - November 2021 Update (21H2)
- Microsoft Windows 11-64 - October 2021 Update (21H2)

Platform (OS Support):

- 12th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Alder Lake-H, Alder Lake-P) (20H2+)
- Intel Arc Graphics (Codename Alchemist) (20H2+)

This download is valid for the products listed below:

- Intel Arc A380 Graphics
- Intel Arc A550M Graphics
- Intel Arc A370M Graphics
- Intel Arc A770M Graphics
- Intel Arc A730M Graphics
- Intel Arc A350M Graphics
- Intel Core i7-1270P Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-1260P Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-1280P Processor (24M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-1250P Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-1240P Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12900HK Processor (24M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12650H Processor (24M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12800H Processor (24M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12700H Processor (24M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12600H Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.50 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12500H Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.50 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12450H Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)

Microsoft Windows "Setup.exe" Installation:

- Save and unzip the downloadable archive.
- Locate the hard drive directory where the driver files are stored using the browser or the Explore feature of Windows.
- From this directory, double-click the "Setup.exe" file.
- The first dialog of the installation user interface will appear. By default, a checkbox is selected to automatically run WinSAT and enable the Windows Aero desktop theme (if supported). Deselect the checkbox if this support should be turned off.
- Click "Next" to continue.
- Read the License Agreement and, if you agree with the terms, click "Yes" to proceed.
- Review the Readme File information and click "Next" to proceed.
- When the "Setup Progress" is complete, click "Next" to proceed.
- When the "Setup is Complete" screen appears, click "Finish" to complete the installation.

Microsoft Windows "Have Disk" Installation

- Click "Start", right-click "Computer", and click "Properties".
- Click "Device Manager" on the left.
- In the "User Account Control" window, click "Yes".
- Double-click "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" if present under "Other Devices". (Go to step 6).
- Expand "Display adapters" and double-click the graphics controller.
- In the "Driver" tab, click "Update Driver".
- Click "Browse my computer for driver software".
- Click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".
- Click "Have Disk..." and click "Browse".
- Browse to the directory where you unzipped the file you downloaded, click the "Graphics" folder, and select the "igdlh.INF" file. Click "Open".
- Click "OK" and click "Next". The operating system will install the driver.
- Click "Close" and click "Yes" to reboot. The driver should now be loaded.

Microsoft Windows Manual Installation - HD Graphics

- Click "Start", right-click "Computer", and click "Properties".
- Click "Device Manager" on the left.
- In the "User Account Control" window, click "Yes".
- Double-click "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" if present under "Other Devices". (Go to step 6)
- Expand "Display adapters" and double-click the graphics controller.
- In the "Driver" tab, click "Update Driver".
- Click "Browse my computer for driver software".
- Click directly "Browse".
- Browse to the directory where you unzipped the file you downloaded and click the "Graphics" folder.
- Click "OK" and click "Next". The operating system will install the driver if it considers this an upgrade.
- Click "Close" and click "Yes" to reboot. The driver should now be loaded.

Microsoft Windows Manual Installation - Display Audio

- Click "Start", right-click "Computer", and click "Properties".
- Click "Device Manager" on the left.
- In the "User Account Control" window, click "Yes".
- Double-click "Sound, video and game controllers".
- If installing from scratch, right-click the "High Definition Audio" controller. If updating the driver, right-click the "Intel Display Audio" controller. Click "Update Driver Software...".
- Click "Browse my computer for driver software".
- Click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".
- Click "Have Disk..." and click "Browse".
- Browse to the directory where you unzipped the file you downloaded, click the "DisplayAudio" folder, and select the "IntcDAud.inf" file. Click "Open" and click "OK".
- Select "Intel Display Audio" and click "Next".
- The operating system will install the driver. Click "Finish" to complete the installation.
- Click "Yes" to reboot. The driver should now be loaded.
- To determine if the driver has been loaded correctly, refer to the Verifying Installation of the Software section below.

About Graphics Drivers:

While installing the graphics driver allows the system to properly recognize the chipset and the card manufacturer, updating the video driver can bring about various changes.

It can improve the overall graphics experience and performance in either games or various engineering software applications, include support for newly developed technologies, add compatibility with newer GPU chipsets, or resolve different problems that might have been encountered.

When it comes to applying this release, the installation steps should be a breeze, as each manufacturer tries to make them as easy as possible so that each user can update the GPU on their own and with minimum risks (however, check to see if this download supports your graphics chipset).

Therefore, get the package (extract it if necessary), run the setup, follow the on-screen instructions for a complete and successful installation, and make sure you reboot the system so that the changes take effect.

That being said, download the driver, apply it on your system, and enjoy your newly updated graphics card. Moreover, check with our website as often as possible in order to stay up to speed with the latest releases.

  It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available.

Try to set a system restore point before installing a device driver. This will help if you installed an incorrect or mismatched driver. Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer.