0-Day Game Driver Updates from Intel Are Now Restricted to Xe-Based iGPUs and Graphics Cards
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Alessio1989
Typical quality support from Intel graphics drivers as always. Killing away gen11 is a fraud. good luck for those awaiting good driver support for their shit discrete gpus.
Ghosty
Not everyone plays the latest AAA games you know.
Yxskaft
I have never been impressed by Intel's driver support and I do wonder for how long they will support the Arc products in a meaningful way after its successor is out.
Intel has released security fixes for their IGPs for quite some years after release, but that's it. Rarely new features.
AMD also used to have short support cycles and it's much better now though, so one can always hope.
Undying
Yeah i always thought intel drivers support was crap and we can assume arc will be no different.
schmidtbag
I agree with your sentiment but Intel doesn't. Their Arc GPUs are said to be only optimized for the latest AAA (DX12 and Vulkan, specifically) games. Though even disregarding that, I'm not sure Intel really ever optimized for older games either, because prior to Xe, they didn't really do much for game optimizations, largely because the hardware wasn't going to perform much better regardless of the effort.
Denial
I'm confused - the wording in the article makes it sound like 11th gen is affected but the actual press release from Intel says 10th gen and lower?
Ghosty
That's correct.
TheDeeGee
It doesn't mention the UHD 7XX iGPUs anywhere.
Guess they're not impacted?
EDIT:
The TPU news post says the following:
"Intel's regular Graphics Driver cycle that includes Day-0 optimizations timed with new game releases, will only cover the Gen12 Xe iGPUs found in 11th Gen "Tiger Lake," "Rocket Lake," and 12th Gen "Alder Lake" processors."
Undying
Intel 11gen dont have Iris Xe graphics so it is effected. So support remains only for Alder Lake and Iris Xe igpus.
user1
rocket lake and tigerlake have Xe based igpus, they are dropping their older Pre Xe stuff, which is icelake/cometlake and older. the confusion comes from intel calling their Xe graphics 12th gen intel graphics, and icelake graphics 11th gen, while the processor generation is lower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Technology
rl66
On other hand people that play doesn't use iGPU, and those who doesn't play use iGPU and doesn't need AAA games optimisation...
So the move isn't so bad.
Alessio1989
it's not about playing last AAA game, which may more related to performance. it's about compatibility with software with a igpu that is ~2 years old. plus a lot of people play with igpus todays due budget restrictions.
just remember what happened with gen 4.5 and gen5: omg we have a stupid security flow in the driver package, let's kill APIs support we advertised and we filled with shit restriction so our hardware was supported!
icedman
I just hope Intel improves the whole driver process in general, finding graphics drivers for older and sometimes even gen igpu's last i checked was a nightmare on their website granted its been about 5 years since I have had to find legacy drivers.
Dimitrios1983
Oh man lol.
Mufflore
More mess.
Valken
All those people playing Roblox with iGPU will now be exploited. It is a BIG issue in that market with so many kids playing.
Andrew Robbins
"Xe based GPUs*"
*except ice lake because that's gen 10
what are we thinking the odds are someone manages to patch the drivers
Yxskaft
Gaming does not automatically mean only AAA titles.
There are plenty of games with "simple" graphics, for example Bloodstained or Worms WMD, that work well on IGPs, or very old discrete cards, assuming the drivers don't cause an error of some kind.
Just abandoning their older products so early is just bad.
Intel is the one vendor where one might want to try Linux even when their products aren't officially Legacy, the Linux driver gets alot more features added after release than the Windows driver does.
schmidtbag
His point was that AAA games are typically the most demanding and use the latest features. Therefore they are the ones that will run the worst on an iGPU that was never prioritized gaming performance. Since AAA games will perform like crap regardless of what Intel does, it isn't a big deal if they drop support. For "lower-tier" games, they tend to run just fine on Intel's older iGPUs, so no further work is needed there.
There are only 2 sucky parts about Intel's abandonment:
1. It'll be harder for it to work on newer Windows OSes. And really, only Windows is affected by this.
2. Newer Vulkan, OpenCL, or video transcoding extensions might not be supported.
Typhon Six Six Six
It's another bad move from intel... Nothing to see here LOL!! It's kind of funny because their CPU's have great compatibility and now this. Intel seems too big to get anything done on time and in good shape. This is life and scary to think a lot of places like this operate in this way.
