You can now play on Big Battlemage
Intel has released Arc Graphics driver 32.0.101.8629 WHQL. The main, actually the only, change is gaming support for the Intel Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 discrete GPUs , which are both based on the bigger Battlemage B-series silicon.
This is the first time Intel’s regular gaming driver branch has officially picked up support for those two Arc Pro cards. Intel had already added the Arc Pro B70 and B65 to its workstation driver stack with the Q1 2026 Pro release. The new release moves those GPUs into the standard Arc Graphics package used for gaming-focused updates. It’s almost like it was supposed to be Arc B770 launch today.
Source: Intel
For those who are confused, Intel never blocked Arc Pro GPUs from using official gaming drivers. You can use either for your workloads, should that even be gaming. I’m not sure if the $950 price is good enough to even try, but at least now you have the official path for playing on Big Battlemage.
Interestingly, this driver is almost only about the support for BMG-G31 GPUs. There’s not even a single fix mentioned or game optimization mentioned.
Source: Intel driver
