Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.8826 WHQL Released

Intel earlier this week released the latest version of the Arc GPU Graphics drivers. Version 101.8826 WHQL comes with optimization for “Gothic 1 Remake,” “F1 25: 2026 Season,” and “Fortnite Chapter 7: Season 3.” The drivers fix glaring issues with XeSS frame generation causing visual tearing during gameplay, with its Core Ultra Series 3 (Xe3 Celestial) iGPU, Arc B-series “Battlemage” discrete GPUs, Arc A-series “Alchemist” discrete GPUs, and the iGPUs of Core Ultra Series 1 “Meteor Lake,” and Series 2 “Arrow Lake” processors.

DOWNLOAD: Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.8826 WHQL

Game Ready

• Gothic 1 Remake
• F1 25: 2026 Season
• Fortnite Chapter 7: Season 3

Fixed Issues:

• Intel Core Ultra Series 3 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
  • When using Frame Generation, games may exhibit visual tearing during gameplay.
• Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:
  • When using Frame Generation, games may exhibit visual tearing during gameplay.
• Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:
  • When using Frame Generation, games may exhibit visual tearing during gameplay.
• Intel Core Ultra Series 1 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
  • When using Frame Generation, games may exhibit visual tearing during gameplay.
• Intel Core Ultra Series 2 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:
  • When using Frame Generation, games may exhibit visual tearing during gameplay.

Known Issues:
Intel Core Ultra Series 3 with built-in Intel Arc GPUs:

• Mafia: The Old Country (DX12) may experience an application crash during gameplay.
• Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.
• Apex Legends (DX12) may exhibit flashing corruption on certain maps during gameplay.
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (DX12) may experience a crash when path tracing is enabled.
• Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.

Intel Arc B-Series Graphics Products:

• Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.
• Apex Legends (DX12) may exhibit flashing corruption on certain maps during gameplay.
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (DX12) may experience a crash when path tracing is enabled.
• Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.
• 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.

Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Products:

• Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.
• Apex Legends (DX12) may exhibit flashing corruption on certain maps during gameplay.
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (DX12) may experience a crash when path tracing is enabled.
• Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.
• 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.

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

• Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.
• Apex Legends (DX12) may exhibit flashing corruption on certain maps during gameplay.
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (DX12) may experience a crash when path tracing is enabled.
• Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.

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

• Marathon (DX12) may exhibit intermittent corruption on certain objects during gameplay when using Anisotropic Filtering.
• Apex Legends (DX12) may exhibit flashing corruption on certain maps during gameplay.
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (DX12) may experience a crash when path tracing is enabled.
• Borderlands 4 (DX12) may experience an intermittent application crash during gameplay.

Intel Graphics Software Known Issues:

• When using the settings, preferences, reset all settings option in Windows 10 the application may experience an intermittent crash.
• Settings can be reset from individual pages without issue.
• Intel Graphics Software may sometimes experience a single application crash on the first re-arrange of metrics within the select metrics window. Subsequent usage will not be affected by this crash again.
• Performance page in Intel Graphics Software may not hide the graphs when using the hide graphs button.
• Performance page in Intel Graphics Software may not function as expected when adding new metrics.