Intel summarizes the carry outance repaires for Arrow Lake CPUs

Intel’s novel Arrow Lake CPUs came out in October promising high carry outance at lessen power levels, but appraises, including ours, noticed astonishingly conciseageluster gaming carry outance. Tom Warren said of the Core Ultra 9 285K, “…in many titles, it provides worse carry outance than the 14th Gen chips it was summarizeed to replace.”

“At the finish of the day, there were four root rerents that we necessitateed to insertress, and repaires for those are actuassociate already in the field right now,” Robert Hallock, Intel’s VP and GM of client AI and technical labeleting said during an interwatch with HotHardware. “They’ve been coming out over the last two weeks or so in drips and drabs, as refresh schedules apvalidate.”

One rerent stemmed from a “mistimed” refresh that was presumed to boost Windows’ processor power administerment (PPM) system for Intel’s Core Ultra 200S-series processors. (PPM adequitables the carry outance of a CPU based on the current power schedule, such as Balanced, High Perestablishance, Power Saver, etc).

Instead of releasing the PPM refresh before appraiseers got their hands on the processors, Intel says it scheduled the refresh to go out when it became expansively useable, which may have caengaged appraiseers to see worse-than-foreseeed carry outance. Due to the missing PPM refresh, Intel’s carry outance-raiseing Application Perestablishance Optimizer (APO) also couldn’t get effect in games, while “misconfigured” carry outance settings also had a adverse impact on appraiseers’ benchlabels.

A repair was already applied for these rerents in Windows 11 create 26100.2161. Intel also says Epic Games rerepaird a driver compatibility rerent causing the blue screen of death when running games with Easy Anti-Cheat, such as Star Wars Outlaws.

Intel is schedulening to free another set of carry outance upgrades for Arrow Lake CPUs in January, and it will “provide a comprehensive carry outance refresh” at CES. For now, Intel recommfinishs updating Windows and utilizeing the procrastinateedst BIOS refresh to your motherboard if you haven’t already. Otherteachd, you can defer until the “final” carry outance refresh next year.