Intel isn’t prepared for Starfield early launch
Avid gamers with Arc graphics and early entry to Starfield, some of the anticipated video games this month, will probably be compelled to attend till subsequent week. The corporate doesn’t have a Starfield optimized GPU driver prepared but with one deliberate for subsequent week.
Starfield is about to launch subsequent week, however some Premium homeowners already have early entry to the sport. There’s a group of such avid gamers working Intel ARC GPUs which have encountered a number of points that stop them from taking part in the sport easily, or taking part in it in any respect. They reported that the sport both fails to begin, or takes a very long time to load. Furthermore, the sport executable consumes quite a lot of reminiscence whereas working within the background, as much as 30GB in some circumstances. Even when the sport lastly begins, it could crash inside minutes, in line with TechPowerUP.
We’re conscious of points with @StarfieldGame on Intel Arc graphics. We’re working to enhance the expertise for the sport’s normal launch subsequent week.
— Intel Graphics (@IntelGraphics) August 31, 2023
The excellent news is that Intel is conscious of those issues and has introduced on Twitter(X) that it’s engaged on a repair. The unhealthy information is that the repair is not going to be accessible till subsequent week when the sport formally releases. It actually appears that Intel didn’t have entry to the early construct of the sport that was despatched to the media final week, which is moderately uncommon for such a giant firm.
NVIDIA, however, had already launched a game-optimized driver for Starfield ten days in the past. AMD, which sponsors the sport, additionally launched a driver this week. Hopefully, by September sixth, when Starfield launches for everybody, Intel can have its driver prepared and the sport will run easily on all platforms.
Supply: Intel through TechPowerUP
