Another driver update from Intel, with the release of 101.4952, a new driver that comes with record performance increases. Some games, such as Halo: Master Chief Collection, boast performance increases of up to 750%! More record-breaking performance increases!
Intel 101.4952: up to 750% performance on Halo: Master Chief Collection !
First and foremost, this new Intel driver highlights support for new games. We find a nice list of five titles: The Talos Principle 2, Robocop: Rogue City, Star Ocean II R, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name.
Then we come to the long list of performance enhancements announced by the brand. Firstly, compared with the Intel 101.4900:
- The Talos Principle 2 (DX12):
- Up to 19% more performance in 1440p with high detail.
- Returnal (DX12):
- Up to 53% more perfs in 1080p with ray tracing in Epic.
Now, compared with driver 101.4887 (October 2023):
- Guild Wars 2 (DX11):
- Up to 53% more perfs in 1080p in Ultra.
- Halo: Master Chief Collection (DX11):
- Up to 750% more performance in 1080p with Enhanced settings.
- Civilization V (DX11) :
- Up to 6% more performance in 1080p with Enhanced settings.
- Total War: Warhammer (DX11) :
- Up to 10% more performance in 1080p Ultra.
- Lost Ark (DX11):
- Up to 15% more performance in 1080p with very high settings.
- Warhammer Vermintide 2 (DX11):
- Up to 16% more performance in 1080p on Extreme.
- Sniper Elite 3 (DX11):
- Up to 37% more performance in 1080p Ultra.
- World War Z (DX11):
- Up to 113% more performance in 1080p Ultra.
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 (DX11):
- Up to 27% more performance in 1080p Ultra.
- Yakuza 0 (DX11):
- Up to 154% more performance in 1080p Ultra.
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (DX11) :
- Up to 20% more performance in 1080p Ultra.
- Alien Isolation (DX11) :
- Up to 9% more performance in 1080p Ultra.
- Far Cry Primal (DX11):
- Up to 14% more performance in 1080p Ultra.
- Far Cry 5 (DX11):
- Up to 14% more performance in 1080p Ultra.
- Far Cry New Dawn (DX11):
- Up to 11% more performance in 1080p Ultra.
Problems identified!
Finally, we close with a list of known problems:
- Intel Arc Graphics Products:
- Sporadic crashes may occur in game on Ghostrunner 2 (DX11).
- Corruptions may appear on Total War: Pharaoh (DX11) after a change of resolution on certain displays.
- Corruptions using Dynamic Resolution Scaling can be seen on Starfield.
- Crashes can also be encountered on Dead by Daylight.
- Topaz Video AI may encounter errors when using certain models for video enhancement.
- Intel Iris Xe Max Graphics products:
- Driver installation may not complete successfully on some notebooks equipped with both Intel Iris Xe and Intel Iris Xe Max. A system restart may prevent this.
- Intel Arc Control:
- With some games, Arc Control Studio may incorrectly generate multiple video files.
- When using an HDMI connection, the “Display” page may incorrectly show DisplayPort in the “Connector” tab.
- A ” Stream already ended ” pop-up may appear after Capture/Highlights/Broadcast have been activated.
- Arc Control may not retain global application settings in Overlay mode after a system reboot. To get around this problem, you need to run the application in desktop mode.
To download the driver and take advantage of the latest performance enhancements, click on the link below:
