Intel’s Driver Update 32.0.101.6913 Adds Mecha BREAK Support and Fixes Known Issues

AMD isn’t the only company that has released new drivers. Intel also has a new version available, bringing some exciting updates. The new Intel Arc drivers, version 32.0.101.6913 WHQL, introduce several improvements, including support for a new game and fixes for some known issues from previous driver versions. This update adds support for Mecha BREAK, which has been included in the Intel Game On Driver just in time for its release today.

Fixed Issues and Game Support

In addition to supporting Mecha BREAK, Intel has also used this driver version to fix some known issues. Here’s a complete list of the issues that have been fixed:

Game Ready

• Mecha BREAK

Fixed Issues:
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with ray tracing settings turned on.
• SPECapc for Maya 2024 may experience intermittent application freeze during benchmark.
• Valorant (DX11) may fail to enumerate supported resolutions in game settings.

Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

Known Issues:
Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Fortnite may experience an application crash when “Performance – Lower Graphical Fidelity” is selected as Rendering Mode. Recommendation is to use default Rendering Mode – DX12.
• Visual corruptions may appear in certain scenarios with multiple application interactions.
• Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (DX12) may exhibit corruptions on water areas in certain scenarios.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.
• HWiNFO may incorrectly report number of Xe Cores for certain Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products.

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• Fortnite may experience an application crash when “Performance – Lower Graphical Fidelity” is selected as Rendering Mode. Recommendation is to use default Rendering Mode – DX12.
• Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with ray tracing settings turned on.
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (DX12) may experience an application crash with ray tracing and XeSS enabled.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.

Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

• Fortnite may experience an application crash when “Performance – Lower Graphical Fidelity” is selected as Rendering Mode. Recommendation is to use default Rendering Mode – DX12.
• Adobe Premiere Pro may fail to import video. Mitigation is to use Intel NPU Driver version 32.0.100.3717 or lower.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.

Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

• Fortnite may experience an application crash when “Performance – Lower Graphical Fidelity” is selected as Rendering Mode. Recommendation is to use default Rendering Mode – DX12.
• Adobe Premiere Pro may fail to import video. Mitigation is to use Intel NPU Driver version 32.0.100.3717 or lower.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.
• PugetBench for Photoshop may experience errors while running the benchmark.
• Topaz Video AI may experience lower than expected performance.

Intel Graphics Software Fixed Issues:

• Profile controls may not always supersede global controls.

Intel Graphics Software Known Issues:

• When using the settings, preferences, reset all settings option in Windows 10 the application may experience an intermittent crash.
• Settings can be reset from individual pages without issue.
• Intel Graphics Software may sometimes experience a single application crash on the first re-arrange of metrics within the select metrics window. Subsequent usage will not be affected by this crash again.
• FPS Limiter may not limit FPS with VSync ON and Low Latency Mode enabled.
• The Settings page may incorrectly report certain hardware information for systems with Built-in Intel Graphics.

Intel Graphics Software Performance Tuning (BETA):

• Intel Graphics Software 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.
• In multi-GPU scenarios with two performance tuning capable devices, the performance tuning page may attempt to apply changes to one or more devices at once rather than individually based on the GPU selector.

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