Intelhas released new graphics drivers promising substantial performance boosts and optimizations across several games. The drivers offer up to 24% improvements onCore Ultra 200V(codenamed Lunar Lake) iGPUs and 20% on thedesktopArc AlchemistGPUs.
The driver package size has been increased (1.4GB), at least temporarily, as drivers for both Arc GPUs and Lunar Lake iGPUs have been merged in this release. Going over the release notes, Intel has made enhancements in a handful of games and also added support for a new title with the 32.0.101.6127 WHQL / 32.0.101.6044 Non-WHQL drivers, which are as follows:
Game Optimizations
Fixed Issues
Furthermore, we also have a list of known issues that Intel has addressed with these new drivers.
Intel has also acknowledged many other problems that remain unfixed in this release. For example,Doom Eternal(Vulkan) might experience flickering in certain areas. Blender is reported to crash when rendering certainbenchmarks. Adobe Premiere Pro is known to corrupt with 8K AV1 Encode.Star Wars Outlawsmay experience corruption or just outright crash. We suggest users go over the Release Notes for the full details.
The 32.0.101.6127 WHQL / 32.0.101.6044 Non-WHQL drivers are now available to download for Intel’s 11th Generation Intel Core CPUs up to the latest Lunar Lake offerings. However, Intel recommends users prefer OEM-customized drivers over generic Intel drivers since they pack features handpicked for your device and have been tested extensively.
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