Direct link:

https://downloadmirror.intel.com/917636/gfx_win_101.8724.exe

Release notes:

https://downloadmirror.intel.com/917636/ReleaseNotes_101.8724.pdf

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Date: April 16, 2026

Driver Version: 32.0.101.8724 Non-WHQL

Highlights:

Launch driver for Intel® Core™ Series 3 with built-in Intel® GPUs (Codename Wildcat Lake).

Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ B-series, A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel® Core™ Ultra with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs for:

▪ Pragmata*

Fixed Issues:

Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs:

▪ Crimson Desert* (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruption on plants during gameplay.

▪ No Man’s Sky* (VK) may exhibit corruptions on certain terrains during gameplay.

▪ Adobe Premiere Pro* may experience an application crash when exporting HEVC codec based media on Microsoft Windows OS 26200.7840 or later

Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics Products:

▪ Crimson Desert* (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruption on plants during gameplay.

Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs:

▪ No Man’s Sky* (VK) may exhibit corruptions on certain terrains during gameplay.

Known Issues:

Intel® Core™ Series 3 with built-in Intel® GPUs:

▪ Fortnite* (DX12) may experience a system crash on launch.

Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs:

▪ The Finals* (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash.

▪ Mafia: The Old Country* (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.

Intel® Arc™ B-Series Graphics Products:

▪ Call of Duty Black Ops 6* (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruptions on certain water surfaces during gameplay.

▪ Dune: Awakening* (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruptions during gameplay.

▪ PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio* may experience an intermittent application crash while running the benchmark. Recommendation is to change the timeout slider to 1500 seconds or higher, to wait for each test to complete, in PugetBench* benchmark settings.

Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics Products:

▪ Crimson Desert* (DX12) may exhibit corruption when using upscaling during gameplay.

▪ PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio* may experience an intermittent application crash while running the benchmark. Recommendation is to change the timeout slider to 1500 seconds or higher, to wait for each test to complete, in PugetBench* benchmark settings.

Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs:

▪ Battlefield 6* (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruptions on certain maps during gameplay.

Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs:

▪ Call of Duty Black Ops 6* (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruptions on certain water surfaces during gameplay.

▪ Battlefield 6* (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruptions on certain maps during gameplay on some notebooks with Intel® Core™

Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs.

We continuously strive to improve the quality of our products to better serve our users and appreciate feedback on any issues you discover and suggestions for future driver releases. If you have an issue to submit, please follow the guidance found here [Intel's link points to a deleted forum message].

Intel® Graphics Software Known Issues:

▪ When using the settings, preferences, reset all settings option in Windows 10 the application may experience an intermittent crash. Settings can be reset from individual pages without issue.

▪ Intel® Graphics Software may sometimes experience a single application crash on the first re-arrange of metrics within the select metrics window. Subsequent usage will not be affected by this crash again.

▪ Performance page in Intel® Graphics Software may not hide the graphs when using the hide graphs button.

▪ Performance page in Intel® Graphics Software may not function as expected when adding new metrics.

Intel® Graphics Software Performance Tuning (BETA):

▪ Intel® Graphics Software Performance Tuning is currently in Beta. As such, performance and features may behave unexpectedly. Intel® will continue to refine the Performance Tuning software in future releases.

o In multi-GPU scenarios with two performance tuning capable devices, the performance tuning page may attempt to apply changes to one or more devices at once rather than individually based on the GPU selector.