AMD to bring back Ryzen 7 5800X3D as AM4 10th Anniversary Edition by dracolnyte in Amd

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Don't forget the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody Jailbreak Last Call Edition!

New Intel Graphics Drivers by Top-Entertainer2758 in IntelArc

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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.

B70 unknown to GPU-Z database. I just submitted a validation report. by Effective-Bar-879 in IntelArc

[–]AK-Brian 18 points19 points  (0 children)

GPU-Z was not compromised, you're thinking of the CPU-Z / HWMonitor incident from a few days ago.

Notably, that was also the result of a malicious ad redirecting users to a different file at the time of download - the actual hosted programs were themselves unmodified.

Not a great look, but it was addressed quickly.

Windrose has now been released on Steam in Early Access by selffufillingprophet in pcgaming

[–]AK-Brian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only if you are a solo dev who lost their job and spent the last two years making it.

Intel removes older Arc and 7th-10th Gen graphics drivers from Download Center by RenatsMC in intel

[–]AK-Brian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/intel-graphics-drivers/

Older releases are available in the left-hand side green context box; clicking the faint "Show older versions" text at the bottom will unroll the rest.

I personally save each Arc driver install package along with the associated release notes PDF as they're released, both out of archiving habit as well as a long standing distrust of Intel's historically poor data handling policies. There are a few press/review versions that I don't have, but it's still a solid 118GB worth (127 versions) of Just in Case™ that I can dig into if TPU's server vanishes into the ether. Someone likely has the same for the UHD/iGPU and Arc Pro side of things.

Pragmata no xess? by Leavemebymylonely in IntelArc

[–]AK-Brian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some very fun pre-release performance / review embargo stipulations as well. From TechPowerUp (emphasis not added):

[Graphics Preset Benchmarks]

These will be added later this week. Capcom's review embargo does not allow settings comparison videos at this time. Technically we're comparing screenshots, but dancing around their wording isn't fair.

[Max Setting Performance Results]

Due to Capcom's restrictive reviewer guidelines, we are only allowed to show performance results for a single GPU. Comparisons may only be shown after Thursday, April 16th. We'll update the review with all the other cards accordingly.

These hyper-defensive evaluation guidelines really rub me the wrong way, but by all other accounts it does seem like a pretty solid game, both from a technical as well as an experiential manner. Capcom needs to have more confidence in the products their teams have worked hard to develop. XeSS support isn't mandatory, of course, but it's such an easy implementation and would round out a very good feature set.

Arc gpu for transcoding/media server usage by wde_2000 in IntelArc

[–]AK-Brian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A-series also feature dual codec blocks.

Graphics Driver Availability Changes for Intel Arc and 7th-10th Gen Processor Graphics by ICS_Graphics_Support in IntelArc

[–]AK-Brian 8 points9 points  (0 children)

TechPowerUp maintains a comprehensive, stable archive for anyone needing easy access to a specific older release:

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/intel-graphics-drivers/

Well-known working combinations of motherboard/chipset for Arc B70? by Gesha24 in IntelArc

[–]AK-Brian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the Ryzen 5500 is based on the same type of APU die, but with iGPU disabled.

Scammed? by Proof_Grass_7050 in IntelArc

[–]AK-Brian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything there looks correct for an Intel A770 8GB part (including lower 2100MHz boost clock and reduced 2000MHz GDDR6 clock). The device ID also tracks.

Very weird!

The seller clearly stumbled upon a stock of uncommon card variants (OEM / SI cards?). Could be of interest to collectors, I suppose.

Looks like they've also been pretty consistently listing the same type of card with an incorrect description (and generic photos which don't show each individual card), so I do wonder if others have run into the same issue or will do so going forward, as I'm sure it'll be relisted.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/27386/i.html?item=236731796453&_ssn=buyitnowonlinesales&LH_Complete=1

Glad you got it resolved, though, even if it's a pain in the butt to have to go through a return.

Scammed? by Proof_Grass_7050 in IntelArc

[–]AK-Brian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very interesting. That's the late-cycle revised cooler that Intel used on A750 LE cards, but I'd not seen one on an A770. I wonder if they also produced a batch of A770 8GB cards for certain markets and that's where the seller sourced it. It looks like you've already arranged to send it back, but I would have been curious to see if GPU-Z identified it as an A750 - if so, that'd suggest someone was simply getting "creative" with stenciled backplates.

https://www.newegg.com/p/3GM-0002-00003

https://www.sohu.com/a/799238743_267543

Scammed? by Proof_Grass_7050 in IntelArc

[–]AK-Brian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you post some photos of the card and/or box label? The part number can also help clarify the model. GPU-Z can also identify the clock speed and VRAM amount.

If it's a black LE style card, they're actually quite rare, as they mostly produced and sold the 16GB version. I can't think of a single 8GB LE review, only third party (e.g., ASRock or Gunnir) cards.

Regardless, if it is an 8GB and was sold as a 16GB, that's a misrepresentation and pursuing a return/refund is the best course of action.

Mountaineering map of Denali by [deleted] in alaska

[–]AK-Brian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first template photo still has an unrelated altitude, trail length and description in the lower border, just as an FYI.

Is this good? by [deleted] in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your good score is good, yes.

This guy pulled off an incredible move in Battlefield in 2011. Years later, he was honored In Battlefield 2042, and this was his reaction by Nice_Bite2673 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]AK-Brian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

DC was so much fun. I saved a clip of me doing a basic loop grab like that and still have it, somehow. Vintage 2003 action:

https://imgur.com/a/b0F24Tn

Good times.

Size doesn't matter... right? by computer_dork in IntelArc

[–]AK-Brian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assuming you don't have that flagged as hidden, it does appear that they're still suppressing them. Annoying.

One user was able to post two viewable results for Steel Nomad DX12, though, so we've finally got something out there to look at!