Intel's new GPU driver brings massive Resident Evil Requiem and Witcher 3 FPS improvements

Intel's driver team has a new release ready for discrete and integrated GPU holders from the company. Today's 32.0.101.8531 non-WHQL release is touting support for several of the highest-profile games releasing soon, including Resident Evil Requiem, Marathon, and the World of Warcraft: Midnight expansion.

Outside of new games support, the company has also confirmed better frame rates across its product lines for a couple of games.

When running The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on the Intel Core Ultra series 3's built-in Arc GPUs, the game should see performance boosts of up to 35%. Meanwhile, Arc A-series and B-series GPU owners should be seeing performance uplifts of up to 40% and 7%, respectively, on Resident Evil Requiem. All these results are comparing the performance to the 32.0.101.8509 driver from earlier this month.

Fixed Issues:

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

• John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
• PUBG: Battlegrounds (DX12) may exhibit intermittent flickers in the game menu.
• Hogwarts Legacy (DX12) may exhibit flickering corruption during cinematics in-game.

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.

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

• John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.

Known Issues:

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

• Naraka Bladepoint (DX12) may experience an application crash with Ray Tracing settings enabled.
• The Finals (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash.
• No Man’s Sky (VK) may exhibit corruptions on certain terrains during gameplay.
• Star Citizen (VK) may experience an application crash on game launch.
• Mafia: The Old Country (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
• Davinci Resolve Studio may exhibit visual corruption in the viewport while resizing the window with HDR enabled.
• Topaz Video AI may experience visual artifacts when using certain AI models.

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Naraka Bladepoint (DX12) may experience an application crash with Ray Tracing settings enabled.
• 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.
• Star Citizen (VK) may experience an application crash on game launch.
• 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.
• Topaz Video AI may experience visual artifacts when using certain AI models.

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• 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.
• Topaz Video AI may experience visual artifacts when using certain AI models.

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

• Battlefield 6 (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruptions on certain maps during gameplay.
• Topaz Video AI may experience visual artifacts when using certain AI models.

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.
• No Man’s Sky (VK) may exhibit corruptions on certain terrains during gameplay.
• Topaz Video AI may experience visual artifacts when using certain AI models.

The non-WHQL Intel graphics driver 32.0.101.8531 is now available for download from Intel. Here's the official changelog (PDF).

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Posted Friday 27 February 2026 at 6:20 am AEST (my time).

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