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The Intel Arc owners thread

Phixsator said:
A little trick for those of you who want to play CS or older titles not running on vulkan or DX12. Use -Vulkan for CS or DXVK from github for older games. Helps a lot with the performance in the tests I ran.
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got mine coming tomorrow and fancy playing some older titles......is there a simpletons guide to get it installed and working as looked a little complicated there.
 
bigjonnyauk said:
got mine coming tomorrow and fancy playing some older titles......is there a simpletons guide to get it installed and working as looked a little complicated there.
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You download the doitsujin/dxvk github package, you then extract the DLLs from either the 32bit or 64bit folder depending on if the title is using a 32bit or 64bit client. Those DLLs you put in the same directory as the .exe launch file and that is it. You don't really need to use all the DLLs but only the one corresponding to the original renderer used in the game but for simplicity don't think about this. The only downside is you have 3 unused DLLs in your game directory.

Small note, if the game uses a launcher of sorts then you have to find where the game has its core client exe stored and place the files there. Usually in a folder called bin, Win32 or Win64. Otherwise the client itself wont see your DLL hook and you wont get the benefits of Vulkan rendering. If you run into trouble just holla here and I'll do my best to help you. This trick isn't guaranteed to work with everything but from my testing it has been a huge improvement in the few games I used it one.
 
So card came and pretty happy with it tbh.

Thing is my monitor is a lg ultra gear 24inch 1080p 180hz.

In the arc software ive enabled smart v-sync which is basically adaptive refresh rate.

Am i right in thinking

A) i disable vsync in games
B) i dont need to also enable . Vsync or vrr in windows ?

The other thing is xess2 . None of this was about when i had a pc for gaming ( moved to xbox crystal )

Am i right in thinking allnthis does is take a smaller image then uses a.i to upscale it back but more fps ?

If im happy with say 80fps on a single player game i wouldnt really need to use it would i ?

Maybe games like wukong which are demanding i should prob try it along with online games like cod and apex which i play
 
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You're right on XESS, it's just AI upscaling. I prefer not to use it if frame-rate is good.
With Wukong, I really recommend using DLSS swapper to change the XESS method it uses. It looks much better with XESS 2 compared to the rubbish it has as standard.

I've never really messed with VRR on my display, as it doesn't seem to work with anything other than AMD cards. :'(
 
just wondered on your thoughts guys. Card installed and running at 1080p. In games specifically blops6 and apex my gpu usage is fine at 99% but my cpu (ryzen 5 7600) spikes to around 90% usage in sections.

Temps are fine 55-65% on both. It this something i should worry about ?
 
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bigjonnyauk said:
just wondered on your thoughts guys. Card installed and running at 1080p. In games specifically blops6 and apex my gpu usage is fine at 99% but my cpu (ryzen 5 7600) spikes to around 90% usage in sections.

Temps are fine 55-65% on both. It this something i should worry about ?
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you will be happy in life if you turn the monitor off ;)

thats if the game is running well and it will make you play better especially in a shooter no more looking every 5 seconds to check it
 
Game said:
you will be happy in life if you turn the monitor off ;)

thats if the game is running well and it will make you play better especially in a shooter no more looking every 5 seconds to check it
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Been out the pc building game for nearly 20 years. I don't have a clue anymore about this kind of stuff with newer tech.

It's a new build and just wanted to try and confirm it's ok and i don't have any issues.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
You paid for the hardware, be happy that it's being used. :D
There's a tiny chance this situation will improve over the life-span of the card, but the CPU overhead is real.

As long as you're not seeing stuttery gameplay, I wouldn't worry.
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Has anyone seen anything which suggests the CPU overhead can be improved in drivers? I've got a Ryzen 3600 and I am thinking of getting one of these
 
bigjonnyauk said:
Been out the pc building game for nearly 20 years. I don't have a clue anymore about this kind of stuff with newer tech.

It's a new build and just wanted to try and confirm it's ok and i don't have any issues.
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the cpu overhead could be an issue , if you are getting massive jitters which can be a problem in multi player games

I was more thinking if you are happy with the way it plays and everything works just run the game
 
Game said:
the cpu overhead could be an issue , if you are getting massive jitters which can be a problem in multi player games

I was more thinking if you are happy with the way it plays and everything works just run the game
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Yeah no worries. Suppose its cuz im old and out of touch so am a noob again

In the arc software there are settings for vsync

Application choice
Vsync on
Vsync off
Smart vsync

Which is the best to have ? My monitor has a 180hz refresh rate but to be honest with my ageing eyes i couldnt tell the difference between 90 fps and 180

I just don't want to keep fiddling when we have experts here who know what they on about
 
bigjonnyauk said:
Yeah no worries. Suppose its cuz im old and out of touch so am a noob again

In the arc software there are settings for vsync

Application choice
Vsync on
Vsync off
Smart vsync

Which is the best to have ? My monitor has a 180hz refresh rate but to be honest with my ageing eyes i couldnt tell the difference between 90 fps and 180

I just don't want to keep fiddling when we have experts here who know what they on about
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Leave it as Application choice for the global profile. If you can then turn on VRR(Variable Refresh Rate) and just leave the rest of it as it is. You don't really need to tinker with it unless you got a problem.
 
Phixsator said:
Leave it as Application choice for the global profile. If you can then turn on VRR(Variable Refresh Rate) and just leave the rest of it as it is. You don't really need to tinker with it unless you got a problem.
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Thankyou I'll sort this after work. Then it's just a case of making sure vsync is enabled in game.

Does the vrr need enabling in both the arc software and windows or will the arc suffice.

Thanks for the help
 
bigjonnyauk said:
Thankyou I'll sort this after work. Then it's just a case of making sure vsync is enabled in game.

Does the vrr need enabling in both the arc software and windows or will the arc suffice.

Thanks for the help
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It has to be toggled on in your monitors OSD and in the Arc software and then your ready to go. There are 2 types of VRR states in the Arc software, Fullscreen and the 2nd I cant remember what is called. If you choose Fullscreen then your application/game has to be running in exclusive full screen mode. With the 2nd option it works in all aps no matter what mode you run it in.
 
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