Intel's new GPU driver improves CoD 6 performance, adds The Last of Us 2 Remastered support

If you have a computer with a supported Intel processor or graphics card, you can download the latest GPU driver under version 32.0.101.6732 non-WHQL. It delivers notable performance improvements in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and optimizations for The Last of Us Part II Remastered. As usual, there are also some fixes and improvements.

Here are the update highlights:

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:

 

• The Last of Us Part II Remastered

 

Game performance improvements on Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs versus Intel 32.0.101.6653 software driver for:

 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12)
  • Up to 15% average FPS uplift at 1080p with Balanced settings

Here is what was fixed:

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

 

• Returnal (DX12) may experience lower than expected performance during gameplay.

 

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

 

• Returnal (DX12) may experience lower than expected performance during gameplay.

 

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

 

• FragPunk (DX12) may experience an application crash while launching game.
• Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition (DX9) may exhibit white corruption while playing the game in windowed mode.
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (DX11) may experience intermittent crash during gameplay.

Finally, here is the list of known bugs:

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

 

• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (DX12) may experience an application crash while loading to gameplay.
• 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.
• Topaz Labs Photo AI may exhibit corruptions with certain image enhancement operations.
• 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.
• Adobe Lightroom Classic may experience lower than expected performance. Workaround is to set recommended preferences in the application
  • Under Edit, Preferences, Performance options, choose Graphics Processor as “Custom”
  • Select “Use GPU for Display”, “Use GPU for Image Processing” and “Use GPU for Export” options.

 

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

 

• Returnal (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay with Ray-Tracing settings turned on.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (DX12) may exhibit darker than expected shadows in certain campaign scenarios.
• Topaz Gigapixel AI may experience intermittent crash while exporting images.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience an application crash while running the benchmark.

 

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

 

• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.

 

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

 

• Adobe Premiere Pro may exhibit corruption in the output video after performing 8K AV1 Encode.
• PugetBench for Davinci Resolve Studio V19 may experience errors intermittently with benchmark preset set to Extended.

Intel 32.0.101.6732 non-WHQL is available on PCs with 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows 11 with the following graphics products from Intel:

You can download the driver from the official website here. Full release notes are available here (PDF).

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