After a somewhat calamitous beginning, Intel is working hard to bring its dedicated graphics drivers up to the corporate level of its category. The latest version of your drivers for intel arc31.0.101.3802, expanded the catalog of officially supported video games, fixed some already commercially available and most importantly added DirectStorage 1.1 supporta technology through which resource decompression tasks are delegated to be used in the GPU instead of the CPU, reducing the load on the latter component and reducing load times.

Those who closely follow the development of these technologies know that DirectStorage 1.1 is already supported, at least in theory, by a significant number of Radeon and NVIDIA models, to the extent that models such as the GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon RX 470 should be. be able to bear it. Microsoft released a demo a while ago showing that the improvement provided by DirectStorage 1.1 is noticeable and perhaps the technology that games will increasingly depend on as they get harder (you can enter the debate about bad software optimization here in recent decades, but that’s another topic).

On titles that now have official support for Intel Arc graphics, they are Sonic Frontiers, Marvel’s Spiderman: Miles Morales, Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 and Dysterrawhile other titles like Chorus, DiRT 5, Far Cry 6, Forza Horizon 5, Ghostwire Tokyo, Gotham Knights, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Sniper Elite 5 Their performance is improved in the context of 1080p and/or 1440p. On the other hand, Doom Eternal (this game runs on Vulkan), Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Death Stranding Director’s Cut, and Forza Horizon 5 have had corruption-related bugs and performance issues fixed.

The Intel Arc Control Panel also received several fixeswhich are responsible for fixing errors such as the fact that the control panel did not start automatically after restarting Windows, that it did not appear in the list of programs that can be removed after the update, that it did not respond to the connection after the update with the second display in operation, failure to scan or streaming after connecting a display while running with Arc Control Studio Capture, no response after connecting peripherals such as microphones and cameras, and more.

It is clear that despite the improvements and fixes provided, Intel acknowledges that there are still many things that need to be fixed at both the driver and control panel level. The 31.0.101.3802 driver for Intel Arc can be obtained from the relevant page on the company’s website and is officially compatible with Windows 10 20H2 or later and Windows 11.

As for Linux, Intel Arc graphics will become standard after the 6.2 kernel is released.. Additionally, having Mesa 22.2 installed is highly recommended, although the upcoming Mesa 22.3, which is in the release candidate stage, aims to include some important improvements for the Vulkan driver, one of the graphics line’s Achilles tendons. Linux after showing that they are very component with OpenGL.