Suggestions for Drivers

[CrilAR]

I Saw a guy making a post about the drivers situation and i think intel actually hasn't been doing so well about drivers so here are some suggestions i wanted to make because i feel they're a must to be added:

1. Intel needs an Vsr/Dsr alternative asap. I personally would've gone with Vsr because it's better in my opinion but not the subject. This features is somehow more important than other features. You can somehow get them from other softwares but Vsr and Dsr is something you can't just get from a random software. Almost everyone uses Nvidia or Amd cards so no one makes an Vsr/Dsr alternative and it is necessary. Especially if Intel made a 2k Card sell pretty good and it would give people the advantage of having a 1080p monitor and not getting in need of having a 2k monitor.

2. Intel might need an AFMF alternative. Not all games support XeSS Framegen. And the fact is even Amd players don't need an Fsr Framegen nowadays because of this gem. And Nvidia has dlss support over most games so they're not in need too. But XeSS supported games are pretty low compared to Fsr or Dlss no matter how much of a quality it offers. XeSS 3 and MFG is already pretty exciting for us people but considering how many games do have XeSS 2 and how many games are gonna accept XeSS 3 is quite concerning. 

3.Rsr alternative. Amd is pretty much making their Gpus worthy because of how they designed their Drivers. And Rsr is just one another brilliant strategy. So i don't like the Rsr quality too much but it atleast improves the quality in a very good way. And also intel has this problem when you lower the resolution it just doesn't give more fps and somehow even gets worse sometimes.

4. Bringing those old features back. I'm talking about Anisoptric Filtering, Adaptive Tesellation and Sharpening. And I do have to admit XeSS looks a little too bad without sharpening. And i mean if Rsr is going to happen or XeSS 1 is not gonna get an XeSS 2 override soon and as far as i do know it's not soo possible, we need Sharpening back more than any features. And Anisoptric Filtering just reminded me drivers can do this thing with customizing games options. Which Intel can't. Some said Adaptive tesellation or Anisoptric Filtering were actually working at some games.

5.The Studio Tab, again. It may not be the best studio but some usually don't bother with downloading Medal or Obs to capture their screens. And the actual funny part here is Studio Tab was generally working fine on B580 with an old Arc Control. You can still use Arc Control but it causes fan curve problems. So i question why it is actually gone and i'm going crazy to the fact there was actually highlights in the driver. It was good but it is gone. So if intel actually sees Studio as something so useless they won't need to add it back again to the drivers i can suggest they add some good AI features to their Studio tab. Like Improving the Image Quality of the Video with AI or somehow Improving Streams Quality offering Better quality but more Latency and i don't know if this is possible. But they can put AI to the Studio tab for more entertainment. And if it could offer us more highlight supports for games and let us set profiles like profile 1 has 1000 bitrate and profile 2 has 2000 bitrate and we could just switch between them by an only click.

6. Customized Resolution. So CRU can make this by its own but the thing here is if it offered us an easy interface like AMD's and if it can work well with the Vsr/Dsr it would be really cool. And offered us the choice of scaling mode or scaling method it would be more cooler.

7. The Profiles Tab can offer more. So i believe if it showed us how much we spent time in that game or program it would be way nicer. And the profiles tab only offers us Graphics sections options. Why not Display? Why not being able to set the coloring to our liking? 

8. Overlay again. I See presentmon is considered the new overlay and people hope one day it would be integrated to Drivers again. But the thing is I'm afraid overlay of intel presentmon doesn't offer us the simplicity. The Features are Pretty fine and enough for an Overlay. But how it looks and the way we can't all customize it is kinda bad. For example even if i can change the width i can't do anything about height and height looks absolutely absurt after a width change. And the opacity is sometimes too much for someone and not enough for someone. opacity and height should be adjustable if presentmon gets integrated to drivers. 

9. Adding more variety to color section. There's no Color Temperature, Gamma, Exposure, Digital Vibrance or most imporantly No Colorblind modes. This is the most important thing in the list that intel should add immidiately. Amd and Nvidia both has this feature. Offering Colorblind Modes. 

10.  An Alt+R alternative. And also an Xbox game hub alternative. Like pressing Windows + G And seeing all those shiny options? Or just clicking Alt + R and seeing Amd's Driver or just pressing Alt + Z for Nvidia's overlay? It is pretty good but unfortunately i believe Intel doesn't have that much feature offer right now. But atleast and Alt + R alternative should do the job. 

So these are so far the things i think Intel is missing. I Hope one day intel drivers match the quality of Amd and Nvidia's drivers. Intel still has a lot to do with driver issues. But i believe this is gonna change one day.

[JedG_Intel]

Hello CrilAR,

Thank you for posting on Intel Community Forum.

I truly appreciate you for sharing all your suggestions in this forum. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us, and it helps guide our efforts as we continue working to improve our services moving forward.

Best regards

Jed G.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[JedG_Intel]

Hello CrilAR,

I’m reaching out to provide you with an update following my investigation. First, we’d like to sincerely thank you for taking the time to share your feedback regarding the Intel Arc Graphics Card. Please find our responses to some of your recommendations below.

Implementation of a Super Resolution Technology or allow Intel Graphics Software to use Custom Resolutions: Intel Graphics Cards do not support display resolutions that exceed the monitor’s native resolution.

Implementation of a Driver-level spatial upscaling technology with Intel Arc: While we acknowledge the potential advantages, we are currently satisfied with the performance and integration of our Intel XeSS implementation. To ensure consistency within our graphics pipeline and minimize the risk of conflicts between upscaling technologies, we will continue with our existing solution. We will keep this option in mind for future projects where different requirements may justify exploring additional upscaling approaches.

Bringing those old features such as Anisotropic Filtering, Adaptive Tessellation, Image Sharpening option, and the Studio Tab: Intel previously made the difficult decision to retire these functions due to very low user adoption. We continuously review our product portfolio and adjust our offerings based on usage trends. If demand increases significantly, we may consider reintroducing this feature in the future.

Enhanced Profiles Tab, Overlay Improvements, Color Section Enhancements, and Hotkey Shortcuts: These are excellent suggestions, and I will be raising them internally to ensure your feedback is shared and considered for future improvements to the Intel Arc Graphics driver.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Best regards

Jed G.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[CrilAR]

I do have a question. You've mentioned Intel deleted those old features because of low user adoption. But this only goes for Studio tab. When the Adaptive Tesellation, Image Sharpening and Anisoptric Filtering first removed the reason for the removal was because this features doesn't work properly. So i do now see Sharpening is maybe one of the most important features in the list besides others. And seeing there is a sharpness filter for Intel iGpus on IGCC beta now i think bringing sharpness back might be a very good idea. Besides all other features this is actually very imporant also considering not all games do support XeSS 2 and there's a quite important amount of games do support XeSS 1 variations, XeSS 1 doesn't have a very good image quality. You've also mentioned Arc Graphics Cards doesn't support display resolutions exceed the monitors native resolution. Now i assume that's a statement made upon my Dsr/Vsr alternative suggestion. Dsr and Vsr doesn't work like that. They use a technic to fake pixels. You choose 1440p on a 1080p monitor it fakes those pixels making it also a little blurry. So on the end line there's Image Sharpening anyway. I do highly appreciate the Radeon Sharpening more than Nvidias to be honest. Makes the game look WAY better on a maybe 1080p or even in 720p resolution. Makes the game completely better on visuals and doesn't effect the FPS at all. When i first bought this card i was just sorry for the Sharpening Feature. Even if there's no Vsr/Dsr alternative to make games 4k on a 1080p monitor Sharpening handles most of it quite good. And i think that is a must in a Graphics Driver. Programs like ReShade can let you enjoy Radeon Sharpening v1 again. But you have to download ReShade to each game you want to apply it on and it takes Screenshots on the games folder and on my sight DayZ just blocked ReShade usage because of what ReShade is capable of. And also this only applies on Games btw. A Sharpness Filter should be applied to the whole screen. Improving Images quality, Videos quality and considering the Video page on Drivers is just efficient on very few programs and usually just Windows Programs a person who just wants to enjoy a show in a better quality without a 4k resolution available on Chrome should be able to enjoy the show,game or just images or XeSS 1 like Nvidia and Amd users could do. Intel shouldn't be missing such a good feature. But the thing is i don't find the current Intel sharpness filter good. It just makes thing appear weird and white on borders more than others. But it's not too bad. Perhaps with a little bit more improvement it could change the whole display quality and the users satisfaction. I saw enough amount of people on internet to convince me this feature is required.

[JedG_Intel]

Hello CrilAR,

I understand that you still have questions about the response. I will forward this to the relevant team to ensure that it will be addressed properly.

Best regards

Jed G.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[JedG_Intel]

Hello CrilAR,

I’m getting back in touch to provide an update following the investigation. I would like to let you know that your feedback and recommendations have been noted and will be reviewed for consideration in future updates. Thank you for taking the time to share your insights, they are truly appreciated.

With this in mind, I will proceed with closing this inquiry. If you have any other questions or concerns in the future, please feel free to submit a new request, as this thread will no longer be monitored. I’ll be happy to assist you further.

Best regards

Jed G.

Intel Customer Support Technician