Intel Arc Graphics Driver 31.0.101.3491 DCH Beta 64-bit

Installing this Intel generic graphics driver will overwrite your computer manufacturer (OEM) customized driver. OEM drivers are handpicked and include customized features and solutions to platform-specific issues.

The generic Intel driver provides users the latest and greatest feature enhancements and bug fixes that OEMs may not have customized yet to address platform-specific needs. Users can check for matching OEM versions at OEM websites.

Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics for:

- Gotham Knights
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed
- Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection

NOTES:

- This Intel Arc software package is bundled with the latest version of Intel Arc Control to streamline installation experience, resulting in a larger driver package file size.
- Support for Xe Super Sampling (XeSS): Take your gaming experience to the next level with AI-enhanced upscaling, enabling more performance with high image fidelity.
- Take your system lighting to the next level with Intel Arc RGB Controller. Intel Arc RGB Controller was custom designed to allow users to harness 90 individually addressable LEDs on Intel Arc A770 Graphics Limited Edition cards.
- Supported on Intel Arc A770 Graphics Limited Edition on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
- Intel and Cooler Master collaborated on the creation of this software.

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Marvel’s Spider-Man (DX12) may exhibit scene corruption when Ambient Occlusion is disabled or set to HBAO+.
- Payday 2 (DX9) may exhibit texture corruption when aiming down sights.
- Call of Duty: Vanguard (DX12) may experience lower than expected performance after applying changes to the graphics quality. A workaround is to restart the game after applying desired settings.
- Call of Duty: Vanguard (DX12) may experience missing or corrupted shadows during the Submarine mission.
- God of War (DX11) may experience lower than expected performance on first launch within the main game menu.
- Genshin Impact (DX11) may exhibit spot corruption on some map surfaces such as snow.
- Resident Evil Village (DX12) may exhibit color corruption within the Heisenberg Factory area.
- GPU hardware acceleration may not be available for media playback and encode with some versions of Adobe Premiere Pro.
- GPU hardware acceleration not available in Adobe Lightroom on Intel Arc A380 Graphics.
- Blender may exhibit corruptions while using Nishita Sky texture node.
- Serif Affinity Photo crashes after opening the application for the first time.
- Topaz Video Enhance AI is exhibiting lower than expected performance with Intel Arc A380 Graphics.
- Some applications may exhibit pixel corruption when Sharpening Filter is enabled globally

INTEL ARC CONTROL KNOWN ISSUES:

- Windows UAC Admin is required to install and launch Arc Control.
- Some applications may exhibit a transparent or blank window when CMAA is set to “Force ON” globally.
- Some applications may exhibit pixel corruption when Sharpening Filter is enabled globally.
- Arc Control may fail to correctly update. A workaround is to uninstall Arc Control from Add or Remove programs before updating.
- Using Arc Control Studio Capture with “In Stream” mode enabled may not correctly record entire clip when under a 1080p resolution setting.
- Arc Control may not scale automatically when changing from a 1080p resolution to a 4K resolution.
- A 1440p resolution selection in Arc Control Studio Capture may be unavailable when the display native resolution is 4K.
- Arc Control Studio Camera overlay position may not retain desired position and size after a system restart.
- Hot-plugging peripheral devices such as cameras, microphones, or displays while Arc Control is open may cause Arc Control to become unresponsive.
- Some Arc Control Telemetry metrics may not align with 3rd party applications or built-in OS functions.
- The Arc Control Studio Camera tab may take longer than expected responsiveness upon the first navigation.
- Hot-plugging a secondary display with Arc Control invoked may cause Arc Control to be unresponsive.
- Hot-plugging a display with Arc Control Studio Capture audio device set to display audio may cause an error when attempting to capture or broadcast.

Intel Arc Control Performance Tuning (BETA):

- Intel Arc Control 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.

CONTENTS OF THE PACKAGE:

- Intel Graphics Driver
- Intel Media SDK Runtime (21.0.1.35)
- Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime (21.0.2.7)
- Intel Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL Driver
- Vulkan Runtime Installer
- Intel Graphics Driver Installer (1.0.677.2)
- oneAPI Level Zero Loader and Validation Layer
- Intel Graphics Compute Runtime for OneAPI Level Zero specification
- Intel Arc Control installer
- Intel Driver Support Assistant

OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT:

- Microsoft Windows 10-64 - October 2020 Update (20H2)
- Microsoft Windows 10-64 - May 2021 Update (21H1)
- Microsoft Windows 10-64 - November 2021 Update (21H2)
- Microsoft Windows 11-64 - October 2021 Update (21H2)
- Microsoft Windows 11-64 (22H2)

Platform (OS Support):

- 11th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake, Tiger Lake-H)
- 12th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Alder Lake-S, Alder Lake-H, Alder Lake-P, Alder Lake-U, Alder Lake-HX)
- Intel Irisl Xe Dedicated Graphics family (Codename DG1)
- Intel Arc Graphics family (Codename Alchemist)

This download is valid for the products listed below:

- Intel Arc A770 Graphics (16GB)
- Intel Arc A770 Graphics (8GB)
- Intel Arc A750 Graphics
- Intel Arc A380 Graphics
- Intel Arc A550M Graphics
- Intel Arc A770M Graphics
- Intel Arc A730M Graphics
- Intel Arc A370M Graphics
- Intel Arc A350M Graphics
- Intel Core i5-12600HX Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.60 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12450HX Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12650HX Processor (24M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12800HX Processor (25M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12850HX Processor (25M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12950HX Processor (30M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12900HX Processor (30M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-11900 Processor (16M Cache, up to 5.20 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-11900K Processor (16M Cache, up to 5.30 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-11900T Processor (16M Cache, up to 4.90 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-11700T Processor (16M Cache, up to 4.60 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-11700K Processor (16M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-11700 Processor (16M Cache, up to 4.90 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-11600T Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.10 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-11600K Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.90 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-11600 Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-11500T Processor (12M Cache, up to 3.90 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-11500 Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.60 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-11400 Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-11400T Processor (12M Cache, up to 3.70 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12900T Processor (30M Cache, up to 4.90 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12900K Processor (30M Cache, up to 5.20 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12900 Processor (30M Cache, up to 5.10 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12900TE Processor (30M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12900E Processor (30M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12900H Processor (24M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12900KS Processor (30M Cache, up to 5.50 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12700T Processor (25M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12700K Processor (25M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12700 Processor (25M Cache, up to 4.90 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12700TE Processor (25M Cache, up to 4.60 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12700E Processor (25M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12800HE Processor (24M Cache, up to 4.60 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-1270PE Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.50 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12600 Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12500 Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.60 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12500T Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12400 Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12400F Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12600T Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.60 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12500TE Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.30 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12400T Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.20 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12500E Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.50 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12600HE Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.50 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-1250PE Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i3-12100 Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.30 GHz)
- Intel Core i3-12300 Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i3-12300T Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.20 GHz)
- Intel Core i3-12100T Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.10 GHz)
- Intel Core i3-12100TE Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.00 GHz)
- Intel Core i3-12100E Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.20 GHz)
- Intel Core i3-12300HE Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.30 GHz)
- Intel Core i3-1220P Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i3-1220PE Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.20 GHz)
- Intel Core i3-12300HE Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.30 GHz, without IPU)
- Intel Core i3-12300HL Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-1270P Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-1260P Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-1280P Processor (24M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-1250P Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-1240P Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- Intel Core i9-12900HK Processor (24M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12650H Processor (24M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12800H Processor (24M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz)
- Intel Core i7-12700H Processor (24M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12600H Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.50 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12500H Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.50 GHz)
- Intel Core i5-12450H Processor (12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz)

Microsoft Windows "Setup.exe" Installation:

- Save and unzip the downloadable archive.
- Locate the hard drive directory where the driver files are stored using the browser or the Explore feature of Windows.
- From this directory, double-click the "Setup.exe" file.
- The first dialog of the installation user interface will appear. By default, a checkbox is selected to automatically run WinSAT and enable the Windows Aero desktop theme (if supported). Deselect the checkbox if this support should be turned off.
- Click "Next" to continue.
- Read the License Agreement and, if you agree with the terms, click "Yes" to proceed.
- Review the Readme File information and click "Next" to proceed.
- When the "Setup Progress" is complete, click "Next" to proceed.
- When the "Setup is Complete" screen appears, click "Finish" to complete the installation.

Microsoft Windows "Have Disk" Installation

- Click "Start", right-click "Computer", and click "Properties".
- Click "Device Manager" on the left.
- In the "User Account Control" window, click "Yes".
- Double-click "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" if present under "Other Devices". (Go to step 6).
- Expand "Display adapters" and double-click the graphics controller.
- In the "Driver" tab, click "Update Driver".
- Click "Browse my computer for driver software".
- Click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".
- Click "Have Disk..." and click "Browse".
- Browse to the directory where you unzipped the file you downloaded, click the "Graphics" folder, and select the "igdlh.INF" file. Click "Open".
- Click "OK" and click "Next". The operating system will install the driver.
- Click "Close" and click "Yes" to reboot. The driver should now be loaded.

Microsoft Windows Manual Installation - HD Graphics

- Click "Start", right-click "Computer", and click "Properties".
- Click "Device Manager" on the left.
- In the "User Account Control" window, click "Yes".
- Double-click "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" if present under "Other Devices". (Go to step 6)
- Expand "Display adapters" and double-click the graphics controller.
- In the "Driver" tab, click "Update Driver".
- Click "Browse my computer for driver software".
- Click directly "Browse".
- Browse to the directory where you unzipped the file you downloaded and click the "Graphics" folder.
- Click "OK" and click "Next". The operating system will install the driver if it considers this an upgrade.
- Click "Close" and click "Yes" to reboot. The driver should now be loaded.

Microsoft Windows Manual Installation - Display Audio

- Click "Start", right-click "Computer", and click "Properties".
- Click "Device Manager" on the left.
- In the "User Account Control" window, click "Yes".
- Double-click "Sound, video and game controllers".
- If installing from scratch, right-click the "High Definition Audio" controller. If updating the driver, right-click the "Intel Display Audio" controller. Click "Update Driver Software...".
- Click "Browse my computer for driver software".
- Click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".
- Click "Have Disk..." and click "Browse".
- Browse to the directory where you unzipped the file you downloaded, click the "DisplayAudio" folder, and select the "IntcDAud.inf" file. Click "Open" and click "OK".
- Select "Intel Display Audio" and click "Next".
- The operating system will install the driver. Click "Finish" to complete the installation.
- Click "Yes" to reboot. The driver should now be loaded.
- To determine if the driver has been loaded correctly, refer to the Verifying Installation of the Software section below.

About Graphics Drivers:

While installing the graphics driver allows the system to properly recognize the chipset and the card manufacturer, updating the video driver can bring about various changes.

It can improve the overall graphics experience and performance in either games or various engineering software applications, include support for newly developed technologies, add compatibility with newer GPU chipsets, or resolve different problems that might have been encountered.

When it comes to applying this release, the installation steps should be a breeze, as each manufacturer tries to make them as easy as possible so that each user can update the GPU on their own and with minimum risks (however, check to see if this download supports your graphics chipset).

Therefore, get the package (extract it if necessary), run the setup, follow the on-screen instructions for a complete and successful installation, and make sure you reboot the system so that the changes take effect.

That being said, download the driver, apply it on your system, and enjoy your newly updated graphics card. Moreover, check with our website as often as possible in order to stay up to speed with the latest releases.