Dedicated graphics Intel Arc They are far from getting off on the right foot due to some drivers for whom the average plate is too big. It sounds like an exaggeration, but from the outside it looks like the company was late with the controllers, resulting in a bad premiere that can lead to reputational damage.
The initial bad reviews are forcing Intel to act quickly, so it’s no surprise that their driver updates include a lot more stuff than the competition. The latest beta released by Intel requires 1.2 GB of free disk space. compared to the 500MB that are typically common with NVIDIA and Radeon.
Between repairs contributed beta Intel Arc driver 30.101.3276 for Windows 10 and 11, there are several Marvel’s Spider-Man, Saint’s Row and Gears 5 using the DirectX 12 APIwhich is in addition to the shadow corruption in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (DirectX 11) and the fact that some third-party camera applications may show corruption in the resulting video after shooting it in full screen.
The Arc Intel Control Panel also received several fixes related to incorrect display of unwanted values in game profiles, an issue with dual display configurations, the application itself not working in some languages, or Windows Timeout detection and recovery (TDR). , plus the occasional soft freeze when starting to capture or stream with Arc Control Studio.
Many things are still pending, including a handful of bugs affecting the aforementioned Marvel’s Spider-Man, Horizon Zero Dawn, Call of Duty: Vanguard, and Sniper Elite 5all about DirectX 12. When it comes to the application, the list is even longer and includes not only graphics configuration issues, but also Windows, recording and streaming software, scaling and VRAM metrics.
Intel seems to be doing its best to keep its dedicated graphics from sinking in the end, but we’re very worried that it’s impossible to convince Radeon and NVIDIA users at this point. Despite everything, it is in the best interest of the company to now try to start the second generation with better foundations, something that is very necessary if we see the growing dominance of NVIDIA in the sector.
