Info Intel ARC Alchemist owners thread. Now 75 games tested, retested, and counting. Includes productivity experiences. Feel free to add your results.

[igor_kavinski]

Looks very decent.

 

[511]

Looks very decent.

it was at roughly around ~30W for the whole package with a max of 37W

 

[DigDog]

new drivers are out https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/241598/intel-arc-b580-graphics/downloads.html

 

[DigDog]

a word of advice; i am convinced that these last drivers changed my mouse settings. How, i have no idea - although this driver package does say it includes other firmware updates, i think for HDMI. I cannot find any corroborating evidence online, but two games i play regularly felt very much off in the aiming speed, and i had to turn down the sensitivity settings on both.
my mouse itself is driverless and it's not a hardware issue.

 

[igor_kavinski]

but two games i play regularly felt very much off in the aiming speed, and i had to turn down the sensitivity settings on both.

Maybe they reduced the latency? Or the driver control panel contains some input latency setting that is on by default?

 

[DigDog]

Maybe they reduced the latency? Or the driver control panel contains some input latency setting that is on by default?

.. why would W11 add artificial latency to my mouse?

i admit i haven't messed with my mouse settings since i stopped playing Quake, but i wouldn't expect that a video driver change things dramatically in a videgame. i know this sound stupid - but why would the mouse be tied to anything a video driver can change? this isn't the 90s anymore, it's not like stuff like "mouse speed tied to FPS" still happens.

 

[511]

.. why would W11 add artificial latency to my mouse?

i admit i haven't messed with my mouse settings since i stopped playing Quake, but i wouldn't expect that a video driver change things dramatically in a videgame. i know this sound stupid - but why would the mouse be tied to anything a video driver can change? this isn't the 90s anymore, it's not like stuff like "mouse speed tied to FPS" still happens.

Well if the mouse cursor is rendered by the GPU than it makes sense

 

[igor_kavinski]

.. why would W11 add artificial latency to my mouse?

Is Low Latency mode enabled in your Intel Graphics control panel? Try turning it off.

 

[DigDog]

1. i do not have installed the Intel control panel; i only have the driver, and the new (from previous drivers) OneAPI Level Zero. I think the name already tells you what this does.
2. i may be wrong, but i don't think mouse speed is any more tied to frame rate, on desktop or in an application. If for some reason you were getting such a bad framerate that you mouse wouldn't render, it would skip, but the computer would still keep track of the location based on the info from the sensor.

oh and if i had a low latency mode, i would want it on. i'm not a XxX*1337*Sh0tz!360 gamer anymore but i'd still prefer to have my mouse input raw.

 

[igor_kavinski]

1. i do not have installed the Intel control panel; i only have the driver

So suppose the previous default was keeping LLM off and in this driver they switched it on by default so you noticed the difference. My theory.

 

[DigDog]

So suppose the previous default was keeping LLM off and in this driver they switched it on by default so you noticed the difference. My theory.

Likely no; remember that i recently had a RX590, moved (with some embarrassing failures) to the B580, then to W11, all without needing to change the mouse settings.
There is something inside this driver that made it change. I understand you too now have a Intel card, a A770? which means you'll use it too, see if you too notice any changes.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I understand you too now have a Intel card, a A770? which means you'll use it too, see if you too notice any changes.

Yeah but I use it in LM Studio. Haven't been able to play a PC game in ages. Such is life