Planned schedule for a definitive Starfield fix?

[AjrAlves]

DO NOT TREAT THIS AS AN ISOLATED CASE, ALL ARC USERS ARE HAVING THIS SAME ISSUES

So, it's well known that Starfield is currently unplayable on Arc GPUs.
Even after 4676 driver, the game still presents very low FPS with A750 and A770 GPUs at any open area and setting, not to mention the terrible texture rendering and the crashes.

Based on performance in other games, the A750/A770 should perform similar to a  RTX 3060 and/or RTX 2070, both of which are not perfect in this game, but can play it with around ~40-50 FPS at 1080p medium without upscaling, while in Arc GPUs it oscilates between 15 and 30FPS even with upscaling; rendering the game unplayable.

Based that the game requires a GTX 1070Ti to run, it should be playable with Arc A750/A770 GPUs, but currently it isn't, EVEN with the latest 4676 driver.

I'm (and most other people here honestly) planning on buying this game, but obviously I want it to be playable. Will that be even possible? If yes, what is the schedule for that?

The community is eager to know Intel's position on this.

[n_scott_pearson · Accepted solution]

I am sure that Intel is working on this issue - but you need to understand that an acknowledgement of this is all that you are going to get. The Intel Support Agents are simply not allowed to speculate regarding features and schedules for driver updates (you can thank the trolls for this). In most cases, they get notice of a release and its contents only shortly before it goes live on the download site (and they cannot talk about it until it actually is live; again, thank the trolls for this).

Just saying,

...S

[AjrAlves]

Thats kinda frustrating, but I understand it now (and we can blame that on ourselves as a community) .

I honestly want to know (and as an Arc A750 owner since January, I really hope so) if they will be able to get the performance jump needed to make the game reasonably playable just from the drivers, as it will need to be around  a 70-100% boost, and 4676 is already the second driver released with Starfield optimisations.

Well, let's hoe they'll be able to pull that off.

Thanks for the answer anyways Scott, really appreciate the info.

[AlHill]

I am going to step out on a limb here, and say that Intel should not be attempting to compete with nvidia and amd if they are not going to invest heavily in the driver and features the hardware requires.  I know users want to see a third option for graphic cards, but intel is not the answer.   They have shown their position with abandoing motherboards, nucs, sticks, server boards, etc.   And, they have shown they are incapable of writing and improving drivers for LAN, wifi, raid, graphics, etc.   They have shown they have no desire to update older products, and are discontinuing products at a stellar rate.  They have shown no desire to support users when they tire of them, especially evident in deleting support files and documentation for products.

Buy an Arc card?  I would not, as I do not want to be discarded by Intel after a couple of years.

Just an opinion.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[Maybe Windows 12 will be better]

[AjrAlves]

It's sad, but I agree:
They should either invest heavily on their software and long term support, or just forget this market honestly.

Its very anti consumer to launch a product (and not a cheap one, especially considering its price in developing countries) just to not support it correctly and/or butcher support for it much early than it's rivals.

But I try always to be the positive guy (not a fanboy though, I also have AMD and Nvidia components), and I hope they won't fail in their graphics mission.


Support needs indeed to improve though.

[Unkrauotter]

Well bethesda told me that the INTEl ARC doesnt fit the minimum requirements. Short said, they didnt  cared about intel gpu and intel user.