Intel releases new graphics driver with CoD Black Ops 6 performance improvements and more

Intel has released a new graphics driver. Versions 32.0.101.6458 WHQL and 32.0.101.6257 WHQL bring the initial support for the Intel Arc B570 graphics card and the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 mobile processors (Arrow Lake-H).

Here is what is new:

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) o Up to 6.8% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Basic settings

Here is what was fixed:

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.

Here is the list of known bugs:

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.

Intel 32.0101.6458 WHQL and 32.0101.6257 WHQL are available on PCs with 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows 11 with the following graphics products from Intel:

You can download the driver from the official website here. Full release notes are available here (PDF).