I'm trying to play Cyberpunk with an Intel Core i5-13600K, Radeon RX 7900 XTX, ASRock B760M PG Riptide, 32GB DDR5-6000, and a 2TB SSD. The game launcher warns that my Intel graphics drivers are outdated, and the game frequently crashes without showing an AMD driver timeout message.
I tried Intel's graphics and driver installer, but it returned "No driver was found that can be installed on the current device" with installer exit code 8. In Device Manager, I only see my Radeon card under Display adapters. I understand that the 13600K's integrated graphics may be disabled in the BIOS, but do I really need to enable it just to update the driver? Is that normal when I'm using the dedicated Radeon GPU?
I updated the motherboard BIOS recently and enabled XMP, increasing the memory speed from 4200 MT/s to 6000 MT/s, but the launcher warning and crashes continue. Are CPU drivers handled through the motherboard's chipset drivers instead, and what should I install or troubleshoot next?
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Updating the BIOS does not automatically mean every motherboard driver is current. Go to ASRock’s support page for the exact board model and install the chipset drivers along with any relevant Intel management, LAN, audio, and storage drivers. The integrated graphics driver is separate and only matters if you actually use the 13600K’s display output.
The CPU itself does not normally need a separate driver. The Intel graphics driver is for the integrated GPU, which is disabled or unused in your setup, while the Radeon card handles gaming. You generally do not need to enable the integrated graphics just to update anything.
Install the motherboard’s chipset and device drivers from ASRock’s support page separately from the BIOS update. For the crashes, verify that Cyberpunk is using the Radeon card, consider reinstalling the AMD driver with a clean-install tool, and test whether the system is stable with XMP temporarily disabled. A launcher warning about Intel graphics does not necessarily identify the cause of the crash.
The lack of an AMD driver timeout message doesn’t prove the Radeon driver is unrelated. Games can crash because of the game itself, system instability, memory settings, or a graphics driver without producing that exact error. Since you raised DDR5 from 4200 to 6000 MT/s with XMP, try running at default memory settings for a while. If the crashes stop, the memory overclock or related stability settings may be involved.
I’m sure the game is rendering on the Radeon because switching to integrated graphics makes performance and image quality obviously worse. I also couldn’t find a manual GPU-selection option in the game settings. I changed the CPU-thread setting from automatic to performance cores, since I wondered whether the game was handling the efficiency cores poorly, and I’ll see whether that improves stability.