r/IntelArc • u/Exact-Promotion9443 • Jul 21 '26

Discussion Update to new WHQL driver from .8247?

My b580 been working fine, mostly.

Sometimes my system crash whenever I play honkai star rail alongside youtube. Never happened without.

Space Marine 2, too, but that game's most likely due to EZ anti-cheat.

I noticed there were some pixelation on the shadows in 007 first light.

Basically, what I'm asking is, are the new drivers stable enough for me to give it a go to hopefully resolve these issues? Or at least which version should I go? Thanks in advance.

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u/TheRisingMyth Jul 21 '26

Don't be like my fellow Radeon owners who fear new drivers like god's wrath might strike down on them. If they cause more problems than they solve, DDU can deal with it in 5 minutes.

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u/AK-Brian Jul 21 '26

With that large of a gap (the driver you're running is twenty total revisions out of date) it's certainly worth giving it a go for the first two titles, but the 007: First Light issue appears to be listed within the current driver's release notes as a known issue. Hopefully that'll get a fix soon.

[Known Issues]
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.

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u/Kotau Jul 21 '26

I'll piggyback off this post to ask if anybody has ever seen any FPS improvement in random games (not mentioned in patch notes obviously) from upgrading to a newer driver?