Intel Arc GPU Driver Problems Revisited: 2025 Arc Graphics Driver Review
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Date: 2025-11-01
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KatsuneGaming
I've been with Inte's Arc GPUs since day one... or nearly day one; as close as I could get with buying one. I've seen it crash a number of times, but I've always been happy with it. At some point I decided to get an AMD GPU to get a more stable gaming experience, but it crashed just as much so I knew it wasn't my GPU, so I put back in my A770 and sold the XTX 7900 I got. Funnily enough; that experience only made me like my Team-Blue GPU more.
I only have two complaints: not enough games have XeSS and when I try to update my driver, it fails and provides no information that I can easily access. I needed to reopen a PowerShell window it opens then screenshot its output to even read the error; something about not being able to invoke a method on line 4 at char 1; something about it being only supported on core types and getting an environment. If I had to guess, it hates my 14th gen CPU since this started up when they separated that driver from the Arc drivers. Still no idea what's going on though... gonna need a bit more in-depth diagnosis. Would be nice if I could get more (actionable) information... still a ways to go for Intel, but I'll stick with them because they're inexpensive and I've only laughed at its bugs. I find them fun.
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I've been with Inte's Arc GPUs since day one... or nearly day one; as close as I could get with buying one. I've seen it crash a number of times, but I've always been happy with it. At some point I decided to get an AMD GPU to get a more stable gaming experience, but it crashed just as much so I knew it wasn't my GPU, so I put back in my A770 and sold the XTX 7900 I got. Funnily enough; that experience only made me like my Team-Blue GPU more.
I only have two complaints: not enough games have XeSS and when I try to update my driver, it fails and provides no information that I can easily access. I needed to reopen a PowerShell window it opens then screenshot its output to even read the error; something about not being able to invoke a method on line 4 at char 1; something about it being only supported on core types and getting an environment. If I had to guess, it hates my 14th gen CPU since this started up when they separated that driver from the Arc drivers. Still no idea what's going on though... gonna need a bit more in-depth diagnosis. Would be nice if I could get more (actionable) information... still a ways to go for Intel, but I'll stick with them because they're inexpensive and I've only laughed at its bugs. I find them fun.
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RenoBusdriver
The Arc B580 is a decent card for the price. My issue is it does not play well with older games like Anarchy Online. Suffers from low frame rate where I should be getting high FPS. Then when you login two or more clients of this 24 year old MMO, performance suffers. Reddit posts state it is an issue with direct draw and direct x 9.0c. It runs everything else butter smooth.
Intel has been communicating with me. Somehow I tell them exactly how to replicate my issue and they still ask questions.
It was so bad I bought AMD RX 9060 XT to use till they improve the drivers. Heck even my AMD RX 580 is a beast. These video cards are to hold me over until I am released from Workers Compensation and can afford a video card mortgage payment. Anything over 800 is a ridiculous price.
And Microsoft and Xbox are getting too greedy.
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The Arc B580 is a decent card for the price. My issue is it does not play well with older games like Anarchy Online. Suffers from low frame rate where I should be getting high FPS. Then when you login two or more clients of this 24 year old MMO, performance suffers. Reddit posts state it is an issue with direct draw and direct x 9.0c. It runs everything else butter smooth.
Intel has been communicating with me. Somehow I tell them exactly how to replicate my issue and they still ask questions.
It was so bad I bought AMD RX 9060 XT to use till they improve the drivers. Heck even my AMD RX 580 is a beast. These video cards are to hold me over until I am released from Workers Compensation and can afford a video card mortgage payment. Anything over 800 is a ridiculous price.
And Microsoft and Xbox are getting too greedy.
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Slane583
While it's pointless for someone who isn't technically inclined to go track down an ARC Alchemist card I have been rather pleased with my A770 since owning it. I don't play a lot of games since I haven't been in the mood. But when I do play games with friends the performance surprises me every time. I own a lot of indie games and with indie games you'd expect to have the most problems and lack of support. But it seems to be the other way around. All of my indie games run flawlessly and with good performance. I tend to avoid AAA games because they're over priced and run like total crap. You shouldn't NEED any of this upscaling nonsense just to make the game work. It went from being a feature to help older hardware function better to an excuse for developers to become even lazier than they were previously.
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While it's pointless for someone who isn't technically inclined to go track down an ARC Alchemist card I have been rather pleased with my A770 since owning it. I don't play a lot of games since I haven't been in the mood. But when I do play games with friends the performance surprises me every time. I own a lot of indie games and with indie games you'd expect to have the most problems and lack of support. But it seems to be the other way around. All of my indie games run flawlessly and with good performance. I tend to avoid AAA games because they're over priced and run like total crap. You shouldn't NEED any of this upscaling nonsense just to make the game work. It went from being a feature to help older hardware function better to an excuse for developers to become even lazier than they were previously.
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thatgamingbrit
have you looked into their linux install.... the package repository keeps getting expired keys preventing standard installs. It would be nice if they kept on top of this infra admin stuff to make things more streamlined, also last time i checked there was no overlaid software, just basic driver for linux, no control panels stuff.
The unboxing experience and build quality of the product far surpasses my experience with AMD cards, its been a very long time since i bought an NVidia new so cant comment on theirs these days, but AMD is just 'thanks for your money, heres the card now f off' based on my 6900XT Ultra and my 9070XT cards. Intel was very premium and clearly showed they cared for the customer on my B580.
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have you looked into their linux install.... the package repository keeps getting expired keys preventing standard installs. It would be nice if they kept on top of this infra admin stuff to make things more streamlined, also last time i checked there was no overlaid software, just basic driver for linux, no control panels stuff.
The unboxing experience and build quality of the product far surpasses my experience with AMD cards, its been a very long time since i bought an NVidia new so cant comment on theirs these days, but AMD is just 'thanks for your money, heres the card now f off' based on my 6900XT Ultra and my 9070XT cards. Intel was very premium and clearly showed they cared for the customer on my B580.
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ScottGrammer
I sold both my B580LE's after months of trying to get them to work correctly in DaVinci Resolve, and after experiencing problem after problem with the drivers. Bought a used 4070 Ti Super, and all is well. I really wanted to like the ARC GPU's. Those B580's are not the only ones I've owned. I also owned an A770 and an A380. The A380 I bought just for its AV1 encoding, which was astounding for the price. It was useless for anything else. The A770 was better, but still, it didn't work in a lot of my apps, and the drivers were horrible. The drivers were better with Battlemage, but still not right. And none of these GPU's would work in my video editor, so I'm done with Intel GPU's.
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I sold both my B580LE's after months of trying to get them to work correctly in DaVinci Resolve, and after experiencing problem after problem with the drivers. Bought a used 4070 Ti Super, and all is well. I really wanted to like the ARC GPU's. Those B580's are not the only ones I've owned. I also owned an A770 and an A380. The A380 I bought just for its AV1 encoding, which was astounding for the price. It was useless for anything else. The A770 was better, but still, it didn't work in a lot of my apps, and the drivers were horrible. The drivers were better with Battlemage, but still not right. And none of these GPU's would work in my video editor, so I'm done with Intel GPU's.
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lotto77102
Having had my A770 for almost 2 years now, I can pretty safely say that the biggest issue with it is UE. I mean, I know it's not great normally, especially UE5, but the combination of weird new graphics architecture and an engine held together with tape and prayers is just a recipe for disaster. UE4/5 games are massively unstable if they don't incorporate some sort of Arc specific fix, and something like Train Sim World is completely unplayable if you're like me and muck around with it because of some free gamepass, it requires a launch variable to start with Vulcan (which you can't use on Gamepass), and the DX11 stock version crashes basically as soon as you start a scenario.
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Having had my A770 for almost 2 years now, I can pretty safely say that the biggest issue with it is UE. I mean, I know it's not great normally, especially UE5, but the combination of weird new graphics architecture and an engine held together with tape and prayers is just a recipe for disaster. UE4/5 games are massively unstable if they don't incorporate some sort of Arc specific fix, and something like Train Sim World is completely unplayable if you're like me and muck around with it because of some free gamepass, it requires a launch variable to start with Vulcan (which you can't use on Gamepass), and the DX11 stock version crashes basically as soon as you start a scenario.
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act.13.41
I only have a few issues with my Onix Lumi B580 feeding a INNOCN 40 Inch 5K 5120 x 2160p Ultrawide Monitor. I seem to be missing a couple of 21x9 resolutions to choose from. In Windows, I can choose 5120x2160, but 3840x1440 is missing. In Linux 5120x2160 is not an option yet and 3840x1440 is missing as well. 2560x1440 just won't cut it for me.
Every 5 to 30 minutes, I get a black screen for about 2 seconds and then it comes back. Driving the monitor at 100hz it happened a bit more frequently, but it still occurs at 60hz.
Other than that, I am quite pleased with how far it has come.
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I only have a few issues with my Onix Lumi B580 feeding a INNOCN 40 Inch 5K 5120 x 2160p Ultrawide Monitor. I seem to be missing a couple of 21x9 resolutions to choose from. In Windows, I can choose 5120x2160, but 3840x1440 is missing. In Linux 5120x2160 is not an option yet and 3840x1440 is missing as well. 2560x1440 just won't cut it for me.
Every 5 to 30 minutes, I get a black screen for about 2 seconds and then it comes back. Driving the monitor at 100hz it happened a bit more frequently, but it still occurs at 60hz.
Other than that, I am quite pleased with how far it has come.
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Meditations2024
Let us now take a moment to acknowledge that at a time when the RTX 20/30 series have received DLSS4 (which eviscerates FSR4), that AMD has abandoned the RX 50/60 series...
Frankly, I'm just shocked they didn't jettison the 70 series as well. It'll be interesting to see AMD abandon the RX 90 series one day when the RTX 40 series is still being supported.
And Tech reviewers still wonder why no one choose Radeon...except a friend of a friend who knew a guy who bought one of course....
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Let us now take a moment to acknowledge that at a time when the RTX 20/30 series have received DLSS4 (which eviscerates FSR4), that AMD has abandoned the RX 50/60 series...
Frankly, I'm just shocked they didn't jettison the 70 series as well. It'll be interesting to see AMD abandon the RX 90 series one day when the RTX 40 series is still being supported.
And Tech reviewers still wonder why no one choose Radeon...except a friend of a friend who knew a guy who bought one of course....
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dslynx
Awesome video! Thanks for the update. I've been happy with my B570 (wish it was a 580, but I couldn't get ahold of one at the time). I do get random glitchyness in GTA 5 that is fixed by rebooting and going into GTA 5 first thing, but have never had a single issue with Marvel Rivals. I hope Intel continues to focus on the Arc series and in this price range, it makes it easier from someone like me to upgrade more regularly, vs spending $600 on a card and living with it for the next 5 years.
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Awesome video! Thanks for the update. I've been happy with my B570 (wish it was a 580, but I couldn't get ahold of one at the time). I do get random glitchyness in GTA 5 that is fixed by rebooting and going into GTA 5 first thing, but have never had a single issue with Marvel Rivals. I hope Intel continues to focus on the Arc series and in this price range, it makes it easier from someone like me to upgrade more regularly, vs spending $600 on a card and living with it for the next 5 years.
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yusky03
I don't even know if I should bother watching videos like this because I use Linux. Both AMD and Intel drivers are open source on Linux, so literally anybody with the knowledge can fix issues for everybody else. It isn't reliant on the company that made the GPU. Of course, Nvidia is the only exception to that on Linux, which is just a disaster at all times. I have Intel Arc Pro A40 and A60 in my server. No issues. And I have a 6900 XT and a 9070 XT and my desktop and HTC. Also no issues.
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I don't even know if I should bother watching videos like this because I use Linux. Both AMD and Intel drivers are open source on Linux, so literally anybody with the knowledge can fix issues for everybody else. It isn't reliant on the company that made the GPU. Of course, Nvidia is the only exception to that on Linux, which is just a disaster at all times. I have Intel Arc Pro A40 and A60 in my server. No issues. And I have a 6900 XT and a 9070 XT and my desktop and HTC. Also no issues.
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PatrickMcclammy
Steve, i think your weird readings from the Monitoring tab are related to the IGPU, i have been daily driving an A770 since launch, and have recently been using a B580 as a co-gpu for running some LLM's in the background. i have noticed that the graphics software motoring tab will tend to lock onto one specific GPU, regardless of which tab you are on, in my case IGPU, B580, or A770 it will display the same stats on all 3 pages, for which ever GPU it decided to focus on that time.
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Steve, i think your weird readings from the Monitoring tab are related to the IGPU, i have been daily driving an A770 since launch, and have recently been using a B580 as a co-gpu for running some LLM's in the background. i have noticed that the graphics software motoring tab will tend to lock onto one specific GPU, regardless of which tab you are on, in my case IGPU, B580, or A770 it will display the same stats on all 3 pages, for which ever GPU it decided to focus on that time.
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agowa338
Intel Arc GPUs are best for being put into servers and workstations. Esp. for Video editing, encoding, and decoding in a half-height form factor. And when you just want to connect a 4k or 8k monitor for working and light gaming. Also they're great when you're running linux as they work out of the box without having to fight shitty Nvidia proprietary driver bugs and integration issues. Also given the price to performance they're basically without any competition too.
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Intel Arc GPUs are best for being put into servers and workstations. Esp. for Video editing, encoding, and decoding in a half-height form factor. And when you just want to connect a 4k or 8k monitor for working and light gaming. Also they're great when you're running linux as they work out of the box without having to fight shitty Nvidia proprietary driver bugs and integration issues. Also given the price to performance they're basically without any competition too.
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UnluckyOmenYT
About 13:20, my laptop had a problem while gaming, there was always a steady stutter in any game, not random at all. Neither restarting or reinstalling drivers had an effect. Long story short, PresentMon was doing something in the background causing the stutter while using 10% CPU usage at idle. I killed it in task manager and disabled IGS in startup items, no issues since. The laptop only has an Intel iGPU (4060) so IGS is basically worthless in my case.
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About 13:20, my laptop had a problem while gaming, there was always a steady stutter in any game, not random at all. Neither restarting or reinstalling drivers had an effect. Long story short, PresentMon was doing something in the background causing the stutter while using 10% CPU usage at idle. I killed it in task manager and disabled IGS in startup items, no issues since. The laptop only has an Intel iGPU (4060) so IGS is basically worthless in my case.
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awetisimgaming7473
I'm running a 7900x with 96gb of ram and an a770, and I'm even watching this on it at the moment. running Fedora and now Debian, i feel like I'm going to be able to use this forever, and if i get a bigger AMD card, i still plan on using the a770 in either this, or my 5800x3d build as a backup for av1 encoding and stuff. it's been hitch free running all Vulkan titles besides Forza Horizon 5, but that game has never not given me trouble on Linux.
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I'm running a 7900x with 96gb of ram and an a770, and I'm even watching this on it at the moment. running Fedora and now Debian, i feel like I'm going to be able to use this forever, and if i get a bigger AMD card, i still plan on using the a770 in either this, or my 5800x3d build as a backup for av1 encoding and stuff. it's been hitch free running all Vulkan titles besides Forza Horizon 5, but that game has never not given me trouble on Linux.
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jihle1
I'm rooting for more of a valid competition, irrelevant of the name it carries, just to wake up both, nVidia and AMD from their slumber and puts them back on the track they were many years ago, when custoner satisfaction meant something to those companies. What we have now is duopoly, if not even monopoly considering all the disastrous decisions AMD has been making lately with their drivers support on anything older than rx6000 series
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I'm rooting for more of a valid competition, irrelevant of the name it carries, just to wake up both, nVidia and AMD from their slumber and puts them back on the track they were many years ago, when custoner satisfaction meant something to those companies. What we have now is duopoly, if not even monopoly considering all the disastrous decisions AMD has been making lately with their drivers support on anything older than rx6000 series
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ivovass195
Localy, eastern Europe, the b580 is still 100euro, or more, cheaper than a 7700xt or 5060 8gb or 4060ti 8gb or rx9060xt and that was the decider for me. Having my b580 for over a year it's been great, only issue I have is switching displays from 1440p monitor to the 4k TV and the HDR is messed up and needs a off-on toggle to display correctly, but I suspect it's also a windows nonsense not just GPU
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Localy, eastern Europe, the b580 is still 100euro, or more, cheaper than a 7700xt or 5060 8gb or 4060ti 8gb or rx9060xt and that was the decider for me. Having my b580 for over a year it's been great, only issue I have is switching displays from 1440p monitor to the 4k TV and the HDR is messed up and needs a off-on toggle to display correctly, but I suspect it's also a windows nonsense not just GPU
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ottochesterfild
Funny to see hair issues - in RE4 Remake, Luis Serra has a weird hair problem (hard to describe). I thought it was a game bug... Silent Hill 2 Remake runs at about 40 FPS in any scenario on the B580 in Full HD.
These are the problems I’ve encountered using the B580. Most new releases are a dog shit anyway, so for me it’s working fine - especially considering I paid $300 and not $1000.
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Funny to see hair issues - in RE4 Remake, Luis Serra has a weird hair problem (hard to describe). I thought it was a game bug... Silent Hill 2 Remake runs at about 40 FPS in any scenario on the B580 in Full HD.
These are the problems I’ve encountered using the B580. Most new releases are a dog shit anyway, so for me it’s working fine - especially considering I paid $300 and not $1000.
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NexGen-3D
The A series ARC drivers are still completely crap on Linux as of kernel 6.15, they have major bugs that were there in the beginning and are still there now, any older titles have major graphical bugs, missing textures, the performance was also terrible compared to Windows, I believe the driver teams are different, and they have prioritised Windows over Linux for bugs and fixes.
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The A series ARC drivers are still completely crap on Linux as of kernel 6.15, they have major bugs that were there in the beginning and are still there now, any older titles have major graphical bugs, missing textures, the performance was also terrible compared to Windows, I believe the driver teams are different, and they have prioritised Windows over Linux for bugs and fixes.
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1pcfred
A driver corrupting is an OS issue. The driver itself isn't responsible for its own integrity. That's the job of the underlying OS to deal with. Your graphics driver is not handling data storage. Although a graphics driver could corrupt an OS. I had a graphics driver once that messed with system time. Someone forgot to put 0x in front of a hexadecimal number in the code.
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A driver corrupting is an OS issue. The driver itself isn't responsible for its own integrity. That's the job of the underlying OS to deal with. Your graphics driver is not handling data storage. Although a graphics driver could corrupt an OS. I had a graphics driver once that messed with system time. Someone forgot to put 0x in front of a hexadecimal number in the code.
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depth386
I did the jump and bought an ASRock B580 for a friend who was broke af. So he is not a technical guy and cannot troubleshoot. But then he plays stuff like Diablo 2 Resurrected, and the B580 does that no problem. He did have some problem with a game but he also bought an older well received fallout title and had a great time with that one. Good enough for a broke guy.
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I did the jump and bought an ASRock B580 for a friend who was broke af. So he is not a technical guy and cannot troubleshoot. But then he plays stuff like Diablo 2 Resurrected, and the B580 does that no problem. He did have some problem with a game but he also bought an older well received fallout title and had a great time with that one. Good enough for a broke guy.
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