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The Intel Arc owners thread

Dusted off the A750 LE to act as a fill in card for my system (Ryzen 7900 based) whilst I decide on what GPU to buy for likely 4K TV gaming.

To my complete Suprise it runs Atomfall at cranked settings 1440p UW absolutely fine and also the Indiana Jones game at mostly high settings, 1440p with XeSS on Quality. The latter is nigh on locked 60 at these settings despite having "only" 8GB of VRAM.

Sadly, I found Atomfall to be as boring as sin (yay FarCry 2 like respawning enemies...) so will try some other options for now.

It does NOT run Stalker 2 well at all. Likely due to the utter dumpster fire of optimisation that is UE5 and Alchemist not liking that engine at all. Oh well my Xbox sync completely screwed up and I lost a lot of progress anyway so am not really bothered about playing that atm.
 
oweneades said:
Likely due to the utter dumpster fire of optimisation that is UE5 and Alchemist not liking that engine at all.
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I believe that Arc Alchemist does not accelerate through hardware one specific but important function that UE5 requires; Battlemage, however does.
 
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I installed a B570 on a 5600X system today. The results are comically bad in MMOs.

With lot of players on screen the game is capped at 30fps with max settings at 1440p. Dropping to low (potato) settings and 720p increases it to a few frames above 30fps when it should be running hundreds. The CPU bottleneck is real.

Fortunately I knew this was going to happen, so it doesn't matter. But for entry level gamers who don't know this, this is bad.
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Been using the B570 for some games I never played before and its great in the right game. Runs games like Doom at 200fps max settings. Will see if it holds up as I get on Doom Eternal.
 
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New drivers up, 32.0.101.6737.

Fixed issues:

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2* (DX12) may experience an application crash while loading to gameplay.
Cyberpunk 2077* (DX12) may experience an intermittent crash on certain motherboards with Ray-Tracing on.

Known issues:

Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics Products:
▪ Call of Duty: Black Ops 6* (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruption in certain scenes during gameplay.
▪ Returnal* (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with Ray-Tracing settings turned on.
▪ Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0* (DX12) may exhibit corruptions on water areas in certain scenarios.
▪ MLPerf may exhibit intermittent errors when running on multi-GPU system configurations. It is recommended to disable integrated
GPU as a workaround.
▪ SPECapc for Maya* 2024 may experience intermittent application freeze during benchmark.
▪ PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio* V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.
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Update: Sparkle Taiwan has first refuted the claim, and later confirmed that the statement was issued by Sparkle China. However, the company claims that the information is still false.
videocardz.com

SPARKLE confirms Arc Battlemage GPU with 24GB memory slated for May-June - VideoCardz.com

Sparkle hints at Arc GPU with 24GB memory The official account for Sparkle Technology in China, has confirmed plans for an upgraded Arc graphics card. Shortly after Intel launched the Arc B580 graphics card, rumors began to hit the web about a potential launch of a new model with an upgraded...
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You've got to think it's actually true given how much damage control is taking place.
I'd really consider one, but I just wish Intel would pull the finger out and release a stronger card, with wider memory bus and even more memory.
Is it too much to ask, for a card to come with large amounts of VRAM and not cost thousands of dollars? :'(
 
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Emlyn_Dewar said:
You've got to think it's actually true given how much damage control is taking place.
I'd really consider one, but I just wish Intel would pull the finger out and release a stronger card, with wider memory bus and even more memory.
Is it too much to ask, for a card to come with large amounts of VRAM and not cost thousands of dollars? :'(
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Its a perfect time for it as well with AMD and Nvidia fighting over who can release overpriced 8GB nonsense in 2025...

Get the B770/780 out with at least 16GB VRAM, RTX 5070 / 9070 like performance, decent availability and reasonable cost and I would be all over that.

Might be a pipe dream of course but I would love for it to happen.
 
I don't understand people using DDU every time an Intel driver comes out. Totally unnecessary.
At launch, yeah... The drivers were a mess. Now, just install over the top, even the clean install is not needed.

I've installed the latest (as of yesterday) without faffing around first, and they've been working as well as the previous ones.
 
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Tbh Ive been been doing clean installs with every driver update and all seems ok for me, Ive been swapping out my AcerA770 and my Asrock B580 every few weeks aswell with no issues.
 
budge1972 said:
Tbh Ive been been doing clean installs with every driver update and all seems ok for me, Ive been swapping out my AcerA770 and my Asrock B580 every few weeks aswell with no issues.
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Can i ask if you get any direct x12 issues when gaming with your asrock.i have the asrock b580 steel legend and i have had crashes in cod6 and apex with dx12 errors.

Im on the last driver before this new one
 
Might be nice if they did a follow up on the specific issues they both experienced, i.e. streaming whilst gaming and Avowed crashes. Can these be replicated or is it possibly a user specific issue / something on their current install?
 
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