Intel's new GPU driver adds support for the Halo and Black Flag remakes

Today's 32.0.101.8861 non-WHQL driver is bringing in official support for several high-profile games releasing soon on PC.

Intel's driver team has a new release ready for discrete and integrated GPU holders from the company. Today's 32.0.101.8861 non-WHQL driver is touting support for several high-profile games releasing soon on PC.

From the four games receiving official support, the major remakes from Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced) and Microsoft (Halo: Campaign Evolved) are the biggest names on the list. It's a good idea to have this driver installed for anyone aiming to jump into the new July titles, though Intel hasn't shared any improved performance numbers.

At the same time, the newly released Revelations story expansion for DOOM: The Dark Ages is also supported here. Lastly, the Bandai Namco JRPG set in the Sword Art Online universe, Echoes of Aincrad, has received support here too.

There aren't any fixed issues in the driver, but here are the known issues to look out for:

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

• Mafia: The Old Country (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
• Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.
• Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.
• Hogwarts Legacy (DX12) may experience corruption when raytracing is turned on in certain scenes during gameplay.
• Forza Horizon 6 (DX12) may not exhibit expected visual quality with reflections.
• 007 First Light (DX12) may exhibit corruption across the screen in certain scenes during gameplay.

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.
• Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.
• Forza Horizon 6 (DX12) may not exhibit expected visual quality with reflections.
• 007 First Light (DX12) may exhibit corruption across the screen in certain scenes during gameplay.
• Echoes of Aincrad (DX12) may exhibit purple corruption during gameplay in the tutorial.
• PugetBench for Adobe Premiere Pro may experience an intermittent application crash while running the benchmark in the extended preset.
• 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:

• Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.
• Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.
• Forza Horizon 6 (DX12) may not exhibit expected visual quality with reflections.
• Echoes of Aincrad (DX12) may exhibit purple corruption during gameplay in the tutorial.
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading to this driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver. Mitigation is to clear all cached shader files.
• 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:

• Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.
• Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.
• NBA 2K26 (DX12) may experience an application crash on first launch of the game.
• 007 First Light (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash on first launch of the game.
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading to this driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver. Mitigation is to clear all cached shader files.

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

• Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.
• Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (DX12) may experience a crash when upgrading to this driver if the shaders have been compiled with the previous driver. Mitigation is to clear all cached shader files.

The non-WHQL Intel graphics driver 32.0.101.8861 is now available from Intel's official download portal. Here's the official changelog (PDF).

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Posted Thursday 9 July 2026 at 8:02 am AEST (my time).

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