Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.8864 Beta Released

Intel today released the latest version of Arc GPU Graphics drivers. Version 101.8864 Beta doesn’t include any new game optimizations, but fixes a few important issues specific to its various product lines. To begin with, the drivers fix an issue with “Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced,” “Assassin’s Creed Shadows,” and “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Seige,” which causes the game to crash when upgrading GPU drivers if the game’s shaders have been compiled with a previous driver version. This fix applies to Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processor iGPUs, Arc B-series “Battlemage” discrete GPUs, Arc A-series “Alchemist” discrete GPUs, Core Ultra Series 1 “Meteor Lake” processors with Arc-branded iGPUs, and Core Ultra Series 2 “Lunar Lake” processors with Arc-branded iGPUs. The drivers also fix display corruption during cutscenes with “LEGO Batman: Legacy of Dark Knight.”

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.8864 Beta

Fixed Issues:
Intel Core Ultra Series 3 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Assassin’s Creed Shadows (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Assassin’s Creed Shadows (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Assassin’s Creed Shadows (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight (DX12) may exhibit corruption during cutscenes.Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Assassin’s Creed Shadows (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight (DX12) may exhibit corruption during cutscenes.Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Assassin’s Creed Shadows (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver.Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver. Mitigation is to clear all cached shader files.LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight (DX12) may exhibit corruption during cutscenes.Known Issues:
Intel Core Ultra Series 3 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:Mafia: The Old Country (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.Hogwarts Legacy (DX12) may experience corruption when ray tracing is turned on in certain scenes during gameplay.Forza Horizon 6 (DX12) may not exhibit expected visual quality with reflections.007 First Light (DX12) may exhibit corruption across the screen in certain scenes during gameplay.Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.Forza Horizon 6 (DX12) may not exhibit expected visual quality with reflections.007 First Light (DX12) may exhibit corruption across the screen in certain scenes during gameplay.Echoes of Aincrad (DX12) may exhibit purple corruption during gameplay in the tutorial.PugetBench for Adobe Premiere Pro may experience an intermittent application crash while running the benchmark in the extended preset.PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio may experience an intermittent application crash while running the benchmark. Recommendation is to change the timeout slider to 1500 seconds or higher, to wait for each test to complete, in PugetBench benchmark settings.Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.Forza Horizon 6 (DX12) may not exhibit expected visual quality with reflections.Echoes of Aincrad (DX12) may exhibit purple corruption during gameplay in the tutorial.PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio may experience an intermittent application crash while running the benchmark. Recommendation is to change the timeout slider to 1500 seconds or higher, to wait for each test to complete, in PugetBench benchmark settings.Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.NBA 2K26 (DX12) may experience an application crash on first launch of the game.007 First Light (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash on first launch of the game.Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.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.Performance page in Intel Graphics Software may not hide the graphs when using the hide graphs button.Performance page in Intel Graphics Software may not function as expected when adding new metrics.Performance page in Intel Graphics Software may not function as expected when display is reconnected.