Intel releases new driver with Farming Simulator 25, Planet Coaster 2 support, and more

Intel has released a new non-WHQL driver with optimizations for some new games. Version 32.0.101.6297 is now available for customers with compatible hardware, and its changelog contains the following:

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

• Farming Simulator 25
• Planet Coaster 2
• Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Besides game optimizations, the driver does not bring anything new. However, it still has quite a lot of known bugs:

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker than expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.
• Doom Eternal (VK) may exhibit intermittent flickering corruption in the game menu and during gameplay.
• Topaz Video AI may experience errors when exporting videos after using some models for video enhancements.
• Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio may experience lower than expected performance.
• Topaz Gigapixel AI may experience intermittent crash while exporting images.

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

• SPECworkstation3.1 may exhibit system instability while running certain workloads.
• 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.

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.
• DirectML-based AI applications may experience slow first token latency.
• Star Wars Outlaws (DX12) may experience sporadic crash during gameplay.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit texture corruption on water surfaces.

The new driver is available for 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 with the following processors and graphics cards:

You can download Intel 32.0.101.6297 non-WHQL from the official website here. Full release notes are available here (PDF).