But in today's beta driver release (31.0.101.3959, for those keeping track), Intel is offering a 'significant' boost in older DirectX9 titles, with frame rates that can improve by as much as 80 percent.ĭirectX9 was the graphics API of choice in the Windows XP era, and the Windows XP era lasted for a very long time.

Since the October launch of the A770 and A750, Intel has released a handful of driver updates, each of which fixed specific bugs or provided small performance improvements in individual games. The GPUs are actually quite price-competitive with aging midrangers like Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 if you’re playing newer games, but performance in older games is mixed.įor Intel Arc owners attracted to the cards’ price, salvation may come in the form of continued driver updates. We have found that updating the display driver may fix many problems that do not even seem related to the graphics card.In the run-up to the launch of Intel's Arc graphics cards, the company emphasized for months that the cards might not perform well in games that didn't use newer graphics APIs like Vulkan and DirectX 12. Anyway it did solve the crash problem, which was what we intended. As you can see it even changed the name of the graphics adapter.

Selecting and running the download for the correct Windows version nicely installed a new Display driver (see the image above). On your own PC this will of course in most cases be a different type.Įntering ' i5-2520M' in this Intel search option resulted in a list of drivers, including a few for the graphics card. This is needed as this integrated graphics card uses the processor for the graphics display, which makes the driver depend on the processor type. For our HP laptop this was an ' Intel Code i5-2520M'. That name can also be found in the Device Manager (see the image above), under Processors. The trick was to look for the name of the laptop's processor. The download page on the Intel website also offers an option to 'Search for a download' by entering a ' Product name or keyword'. The Windows Device manager shows the Display adapter and it's new driver.įinally, after seeking expert advise, we found what we needed to do:

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