Intels Latest Arc Driver Showcases Performance Uplifts For 20 Games

Jakob Aylesbury / 7 months ago

Today Intel has released its latest Arc & Iris Xe graphics drivers version 31.0.101.4885 which has most notably brought in many performance increases for a whopping 20 games including some of the biggest titles on the market.

Intel Arc 31.0.101.4885 Major Performance Increases

The new update is a major leap for Intel’s growing improvements with its Arc performance especially with DX 11 titles of which there are 17 within this list of performance improvements. Before we look at the performance improvements the new drivers have introduced Game on Support for both Forza Motorsport 10th October and Assassin’s Creed Mirage which was released today.

Now onto the performance increases starting with improvements over the 31.0.101.4826 driver.

Forza Motorsport (DX12)
- Up to 19% Uplift at 1440p With High Settings
Resident Evil 4 (DXR)
- Up to 27% Uplift at 1080p High Ray Tracing settings
The Last of Us Part 1 (DX12)
- Up to 12% Uplift at 1080p Ultra

Moving on to improvements over the 31.0.101.4669 driver which involves a lot of DX 11 titles

War Thunder (DX11)
- Up to 9% Uplift at 1080p Max Settings
Payday 3 (DX11)
- Up to 37% Uplift at 1080p Ultra
Naraka: Bladeepoint (DX11)
- Up to 5% Uplift at 1080p Highest Settings
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (DX11)
- Up to 32% Uplift at 1080p Ultra
Final Fantasy XIV Online (DX11)
- Up to 7% Uplift at 1080p Ultra
Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition (DX11)
- Up to 42% Uplift at 1080p Ultra
Call of Duty Black Ops 3 (DX11)
- Up to 88% uplift at 1080p High
Total War: Warhammer 2 (DX11)
- Up to 10% Uplift at 1080p Ultra
Tomb Raider (DX11)
- Up to 10% at 1080p Ultra
Mad Max (DX11)
- Up to 6% Uplift at 1080p very High
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (DX11)
- Up to 14% Uplift at 1080p Ultra
Call of Duty Modern Warfare (DX11)
- Up to 90% Uplift at 1080p Extra Settings
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (DX11)
- Up to 119% Uplift at 1080p High
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (DX11)
- Up to 8% Uplift at 1080p Very High
BeamNG.drive (DX11)
- Up to 10% Uplift at 1080p high
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (DX11)
- Up to 22% Uplift at 1080p Ultra High
Divinity: Original Sin – Enhanced Edition (DX11)
- Up to 9% Uplift at 1080p Ultra

Fixed Issues

EA Sports FC 24 (DX12) may experience application crash during gameplay.
UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption on characters.
Starfield (DX12) may experience sporadic instability in some areas of the game.
Dying Light 2 Stay Human (DX12) may exhibit color corruption during gameplay.
Fortnite (DX12) may experience application crash when Global Illumination setting is set to Lumen Epic.
Adobe After Effects may experience an application crash during render operations.
Some Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics notebooks may incorrectly report a higher value than expected for default clock frequency value