After releasing a new non-WHQL driver with massive performance upgrades for several games, Intel is back with another driver, this time WHQL, with optimizations for Lords Manor and a single fix for performance issues b A Plague Story: Requiem.

Here’s what’s new in Intel Arc 31.0.101.5445 WHQL:

Game highlights:

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

Fixed issues:

Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics Products:

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (DX12) may experience lower performance than expected.

Before updating, be aware of known issues in driver 31.0.101.5445:

Intel® Arc™ A-Series graphics products:

• No Rest for the Wicked (DX11) may experience intermittent app crashes during gameplay.
• Enshrouded (VK) may experience an app crash during gameplay.
• Doom Eternal (VK) may exhibit intermittent flashing glitches in the game menu and during gameplay.
• PugetBench Extended Preset Benchmark may fail some Adobe Premiere Pro rendering tests.
• Topaz Video AI may encounter errors when using certain video enhancement models.

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

• Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora (DX12) may experience a crash during game loading.
• Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (DX12) may experience an app crash while loading the game.
• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (DX12) may exhibit shadow corruption during gameplay.
• PugetBench Extended Preset Benchmark may fail some Adobe Premiere Pro rendering tests.
• Autodesk Maya may encounter an application crash while running the SPECAPC benchmark.
• Blender may encounter an application crash while rendering certain scenes in certain system memory configurations.
• Topaz Video AI may encounter errors when using certain models for video enhancements.
• Procyon AI may experience an application crash while running a benchmark with accurate overflow32.

Intel® Core™ processor products (12-14 generation):

• Dragon Quest X Online (DX9) may experience sporadic application crashes during gameplay.

The Intel Arc 31.0.101.5445 WHQL driver is available on Windows 10 and 11 64-bit systems powered by Intel’s 11th-14th generation processors and an Intel Arc or DG1 graphics card. you can have it from the official website. Full release notes are available Here (PDF).