Intel Graphics Driver 27.20.100.8280

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Highlights

Launch driver for Intel® Core™ Processor N-series and Series 2 (Codename Twin Lake, Raptor Lake-H Refresh, Raptor Lake-U Refresh).

Fixed Issues

Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics Products:

• Skull and Bones (DX12) may experience an application crash while launching gameplay.
  
• Certain capture cards may exhibit visual artifacts in some scenarios.
  
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (DX12) may experience lower than expected performance.
  

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

• Call of Duty Modern Warfare III(DX12) may experience flickering during gameplay.
  

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

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit black shadow corruption in certain scenes during gameplay.
  

Intel® Graphics Software Fixed Issues:

• On some system configurations the frequency of windows reconfiguration in IGS is higher than expected and may take longer after sleep
  

Known Issues

Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics Products:

• F1 24 (DX12) with XeSS FG may exhibit certain corruptions and applications crashes
  • Application may crash when dynamically changing XeSS FG settings during gameplay. Recommendation is to toggle XeSS FG settings in the game menu before starting a race.
    
  • “Alt + Enter” shortcut may change the display mode to fullscreen exclusive, which is not supported in XeSS 2 and may cause the game to crash.
    
• MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. It is recommended to disable integrated GPU as a workaround.
  
• Topaz Labs Photo AI may exhibit corruptions with certain image enhancement operations.
  
• Magix Vegas Pro may exhibit corruptions when using style transfer feature.
  
• Dassault Systèmes CATIA may experience an application crash when using HQAO option.
  
• Adobe Lightroom Classic may experience lower than expected performance. Workaround is to set recommended preferences in the application
  • Under Edit, Preferences, Performance options, choose Graphics Processor as “Custom”
    
  • Select “Use GPU for Display”, “Use GPU for Image Processing” and “Use GPU for Export” options.
    

Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics Products:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker than expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.
  
• Topaz Gigapixel AI may experience intermittent crash while exporting images.
  

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

• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.
  
• Davinci Resolve Studio v19.0 may experience errors while rendering OpenVino test scenarios.
  
• Topaz Video AI may experience corruption when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements
  

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

• Adobe Premiere Pro may exhibit corruption in the output video after performing 8K AV1 Encode.
  
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.
  
• Davinci Resolve Studio v19.0 may experience issues while rendering certain OpenVino test scenarios.
  
• Davinci Resolve Studio v19.0 may experience errors intermittently while rendering certain AI/ML scenarios.
  
• Topaz Video AI may experience corruption when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements.
  
• Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered(DX12) may experience crash during gameplay with frame generation enabled.
  

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Highlights:

• Launch driver for Intel® Arc™ B570 Graphics (codename Battlemage).
  
• Launch driver for Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 2 Mobile Processors (codename Arrow Lake-H).
  

Gaming Highlights:

• Game performance improvements on Intel® Core™ Ultra series 2 versus Intel® 31.0.101.6449 software driver for:
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6  (DX12)
    • Up to 6.8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Basic settings
      

Fixed Issues

Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics Products:

• Indiana Jones and The Great Circle (VK) may exhibit inconsistent performance and GPU memory usage during gameplay.
  
• Shadow of The Tomb Raider (DX12) may experience intermittent application crash and corruption in the game menu with XeSS enabled.
  

Known Issues

Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics Products:

• F1 24 (DX12) with XeSS FG may exhibit certain corruptions and applications crashes
  • Application may crash when dynamically changing XeSS FG settings during gameplay. Recommendation is to toggle XeSS FG settings in the game menu before starting a race.
    
  • “Alt + Enter” shortcut may change the display mode to fullscreen exclusive, which is not supported in XeSS 2 and may cause the game to crash.
    
• MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. It is recommended to disable integrated GPU as a workaround.
  
• Topaz Labs Photo AI may exhibit corruptions with certain image enhancement operations.
  
• Magix Vegas Pro may exhibit corruptions when using style transfer feature.
  
• Dassault Systèmes CATIA may experience an application crash when using HQAO option.
  
• Adobe Lightroom Classic may experience lower than expected performance. Workaround is to set recommended preferences in the application
  • Under Edit, Preferences, Performance options, choose Graphics Processor as “Custom”
    
  • Select “Use GPU for Display”, “Use GPU for Image Processing” and “Use GPU for Export” options.
    

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Highlights

Gaming Highlights:

• Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel® Core™ Ultra with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs for:
  • FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
    
• Game performance improvements on Intel® Arc™ B-series Graphics GPUs versus Intel® 31.0.101.6257 software driver for:
  • FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (DX12)
    • Up to 12.8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings
      
    • Up to 11.6% average FPS uplift at 1440p with High settings
      
• Game performance improvements on Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs versus Intel® 31.0.101.6458 software driver for
  • FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (DX12)
    • Up to 9.0% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Medium settings
      

Known Issues

Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics Products:

• F1 24 (DX12) with XeSS FG may exhibit certain corruptions and applications crashes
  • Application may crash when dynamically changing XeSS FG settings during gameplay. Recommendation is to toggle XeSS FG settings in the game menu before starting a race.
    
  • “Alt + Enter” shortcut may change the display mode to fullscreen exclusive, which is not supported in XeSS 2 and may cause the game to crash.
    
• MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. It is recommended to disable integrated GPU as a workaround.
  
• Topaz Labs Photo AI may exhibit corruptions with certain image enhancement operations.
  
• Magix Vegas Pro may exhibit corruptions when using style transfer feature.
  
• Dassault Systèmes CATIA may experience an application crash when using HQAO option.
  
• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.
  
• Adobe Lightroom Classic may experience lower than expected performance. Workaround is to set recommended preferences in the application
  • Under Edit, Preferences, Performance options, choose Graphics Processor as “Custom”
    
  • Select “Use GPU for Display”, “Use GPU for Image Processing” and “Use GPU for Export” options
    

Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics Products:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker than expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.
  
• Topaz Gigapixel AI may experience intermittent crash while exporting images.
  
• Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.
  
• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.
  

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

• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.
  
• Davinci Resolve Studio v19.0 may experience errors while rendering OpenVino test scenarios.
  
• Topaz Video AI may experience corruption when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements.
  
• Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.
  
• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.
  

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Highlights 

Gaming Highlights:

Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel® Core™ Ultra with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs for:

• Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
  

Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs for:

• Avowed
  

Game performance improvements on Intel® Arc™ B-series Graphics GPUs versus Intel® 32.0.101.6262 software driver for:

• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (DX12)
  • Up to 5.9% average FPS uplift at 1080p with High settings
    

Fixed Issues

Fixed Issues:

• Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics Products:
  
• Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.
  

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

• Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.
  

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

• Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered(DX12) may experience crash during gameplay with frame generation enabled.
  
• Adobe After Effects may exhibit flickering in the preview window during playback.
  

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Highlights 

Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs for:

• Rise of the Ronin
  

Fixed Issues

Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics Products:

• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.
  

Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics Products:

• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video.
  

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

• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video on certain Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 2 Mobile Processors.
  

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

• Cyberlink Power Director may experience tearing and lag in the preview window and exported video on certain Intel® Core™ Ultra
  Series 2 Mobile Processors.
  

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Highlights 

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

• Power management optimization for Intel Core Ultra 200V series (codename Lunar Lake) handheld gaming devices for improved performance and frame pacing with lower power modes.
  

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

• Certain games may not enumerate all supported display resolutions in the game settings on some notebook devices.
  

Known Issues

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (DX12) may experience an application crash while loading to gameplay.
  
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruption in certain scenes during gameplay.
  
• Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with Ray-Tracing settings turned on.
  
• Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (DX12) may exhibit corruptions on water areas in certain scenarios.
  
• MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. It is recommended to disable integrated GPU as a workaround.
  
• SPECapc for Maya 2024 may experience intermittent application freeze during benchmark.
  
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.
  

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Highlights

Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel Core Ultra with built-in Intel Arc GPUs for:

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
  

Game performance improvements on Intel Arc B-series Graphics GPUs versus Intel 32.0.101.6734 software driver for:

• Infinity Nikki (DX12)
  • Up to 7% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Ultra settings
    
  • Up to 5% average FPS uplift at 1440p with Ultra settings
    

Fixed Issues

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (DX12) may experience an application crash while loading to gameplay.
  
• Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12) may experience an intermittent crash on certain motherboards with Ray-Tracing on.
  

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker than expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.
  

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

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker than expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.
  
• Users may experience less than expected performance while screen recording during gameplay on certain devices.
  
• Video playback on external display may experience intermittent freeze while performing certain operations.
  

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Highlights

Fixed Issues

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Warhammer 40000: Darktide (DX12) may exhibit black corruptions on textures.
  

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• The Last of Us Part 2 (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruptions on shadows.
  

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

• Blender may experience compatibility issues while interacting with camera gizmo.
  

Known Issues

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruption in certain scenes during gameplay.
  
• Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with Ray-Tracing settings turned on.
  
• Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (DX12) may exhibit corruptions on water areas in certain scenarios.
  
• MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. It is recommended to disable integrated GPU as a workaround.
  
• SPECapc for Maya 2024 may experience intermittent application freeze during benchmark.
  
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.
  

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