Hate waiting for games to load? Intel's new trick for Arc GPUs will be music to your ears, especially if you have a handheld

Precompiled Shaders is a real timesaver — situationally — for Battlemage desktop GPUs, and integrated Xe2 or Xe3 graphics

• Intel has released a new Arc graphics driver
• It introduces a Precompiled Shaders feature to help supported games load faster
• This is a situational benefit, but it'll apply more often than you think

Intel has introduced a new trick for some of its Arc GPUs, which helps supported games load a lot more swiftly (albeit in certain situations only, and I'll come back to that point).

Wccftech reports (via Tech PowerUp) that Intel's Precompiled Shaders feature is available with the latest Arc driver, and can be used by Intel Battlemage desktop GPUs, as well as Xe2 and Xe3 integrated graphics (in Core Ultra Series 3 and 200V chips for thin-and-light laptops, or handhelds).

How it works is this: normally, when you load a game for ...