GAMING HIGHLIGHTS:

Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics for:
- The Outlast Trials
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
- Starship Troopers: Extermination Early Access

Game performance improvements versus Intel 31.0.101.4335 software driver for:
- The Outlast Trials (DX12): Up to 65% uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
- The Outlast Trials (DX12): Up to 52% uplift at 1440p with High settings
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (DX12): o Up to 4% uplift at 1080p with Epic settings
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (DX12): Up to 11% uplift at 1440p with High settings
- Minecraft Bedrock (DXR): Up to 30% uplift at 1080p with Ray Tracing enabled at 8 RT chunks
- Minecraft Bedrock (DXR): Up to 34% uplift at 1440p with Ray Tracing enabled at 8 RT chunks
- Minecraft Bedrock (DXR): Up to 28% uplift at 1440p with Ray Tracing enabled at 24 RT chunks

FIXED ISSUES:

Intel Core Processor Products:
- Battlefield: 2042(DX12) may exhibit color corruption at the game menu.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (DX12) may experience color corruption in Quick Play Lobby

KNOWN ISSUES:

Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- The Last of Us (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
- 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 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.

INTEL ARC CONTROL HIGHLIGHTS:

- Display Page: A new display page is now available in Intel Arc Control that allows users to view connected display information as well as shortcuts to the OS for changing resolution and refresh rate of displays.
- Display Page: Variable Refresh Rate status and control is now available within the new Display page.
- Resizable BAR Status: Resizable BAR status reporting within Intel Arc Control now contains a drop-down menu to view per graphics device Resizable BAR status.
- Driver Update Beta Opt-In: Recently introduced improvements for the driver update feature within Intel Arc Control allows users to opt-in to the beta releases of drivers made available on intel.com. Users can now also view the type of release which is installed as well as release notes for that release within Arc Control.
- Search Bar: A new feature available within Intel Arc Control that allows you to easily and quickly search for and navigate to features within the user interface.
- Performance Telemetry Support: Telemetry within the performance page of Intel Arc Control now has a drop-down selector that allows telemetry for supported graphics products connected to your system to be viewed.
- Fan Speed Controls: Added new fan speed controls within the performance page under performance tuning configuration of Intel Arc Control.
--- Automatic allows the driver to control your fan speed behavior.
--- Fixed fan target enables a static fan speed.
--- Fan curve enables a dynamic fan speed to adjust fan speed with temperature targets.
- Virtual Camera Filters: Lighting adjustments enable auto and manual adjustment of lighting conditions.
- Virtual Camera Filters: Background replacement has been improved with the ability to adjust color balance.

INTEL ARC CONTROL FIXED 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

INTEL ARC CONTROL KNOWN ISSUES:

- 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.
- May observe “could not stop Highlights” notification when stopping Auto-Game Highlights.
- The Camera on-screen preview may incorrectly persist when switching between Desktop and Overlay modes.
- The “Connector” type in the Display page may incorrectly show DP when using an HDMI display connection.

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.

NOTES:

- 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 Graphics Limited Edition cards.
- Supported on Intel Arc A770 Graphics Limited Edition on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
- Intel and Cooler Master collaborated on the creation of this software.

CONTENTS OF THE PACKAGE:

- Intel Graphics Driver
- Intel Media SDK Runtime (21.0.1.35)
- Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime (21.0.2.8)
- Intel Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL Driver
- Vulkan Runtime Installer
- Intel Graphics Driver Installer (1.0.778)
- oneAPI Level Zero Loader and Validation Layer
- Intel Graphics Compute Runtime for OneAPI Level Zero specification
- Intel Arc Control installer (1.68.4938.6)
- 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 10-64 - October 2022 Update (22H2)
- Microsoft Windows 11-64 - October 2021 Update (21H2)
- Microsoft Windows 11-64 - September 2022 Update (22H2) 

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.