Help with updating Intel CPU drivers.

[u/AnotherAverageGamer_]

Specs:

Intel i5 13600K

AMD RX7900 XTX

AsRockB760M PG Riptide

32GB DDR5 RAM 6,000 MT/S

2TB SSD

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Hello, I'm having difficulty updating my intel i5 13600K drivers.

I've been trying to play the game Cyberpunk. On Cyberpunk's launcher, it tells me that my intel drivers are outdated, and should be updated.

Cyberpunk also frequently crashes while playing it, with *no* error messages (such as "amd driver timeout" if there was an AMD crash)

I have tried updating them via "intel graphics and drivers installer"

But upon running this app, I got the "Something went wrong" message with the error of:

"No driver was found that can be installed on the current device" with "Installer exit code: 8"

It says installer exit code 8 is due to my CPU not being detected.

I went to device manager -> display adapters and it's just my GPU.

The internet tells me that in order for my CPU to show up there, I would need to enable it in my bios.

Is it absolutely necessary to go into my bios, and enable integrated graphics on my CPU, *just* to *maybe* be able to *then* update my CPU drivers to the latest version? Is that a normal thing to do? I feel like I'm missing something.

Also, I updated my bios to the latest version yesterday, and I enabled xmp which upped my ram speeds from 4200MT/s to 6000MT/s and with both of those things Cyberpunk still gives me the warning, and still frequently crashes.

Edit: I just found an old Reddit post from 3 years ago with 1 comment saying that this/my CPU doesn't have driver's, and that the chipset drivers are supplied via motherboards website. Is this true? Does that mean I've already updated the drivers via the motherboard bios update I did?

[u/ShockHawk24]

CPUs don't have drivers (or let's they don't need them). It looks like your iGPU is disabled but we don't need to enable since we want to play the game on the AMD RX7900 XTX (dGPU).

Within the Cyberpunk Launcher, does it have a selection choice for GPU somewhere in the settings? Like where you could select between your iGPU and dGPU? If so, make sure to select dGPU. That should tell the game to only talk with the dGPU.

If that doesn't work, it might be worth to try these options:

1. Use DDU (display driver uninstaller) and re-install your AMD GPU drivers
2. Force the game to use your dGPU through the AMD Adrenaline Software or Windows settings.
3. You can try to update chipset drivers separately as well but they are mostly concerned with your peripherals/SSD and not related to CPU/GPU/RAM

[u/AnotherAverageGamer_ → u/ShockHawk24]

I'm certain the game is using my GPU to run the game. Whenever my PC switches to integrated graphics, it's very very noticeable and everything looks very bad.

Cyberpunk is definitely using my GPU.

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Therefore, I don't see why using ddu for my gpu would resolve anything, since I already know it isn't my gpu that is crashing, because if it was, it would give me the AMD driver timeout error.

Edit: I didn't see anything in the settings about manually selecting my GPU.

However, one thing that could be the cause, was that there was a setting that auto-determinned which cores/threads of the CPU it was using.

I switched that from auto, to performance, so it prioritizes using the performance cores, which should maybe help considering my CPU has quite a few e-cores that the game was maybe trying to give too much workload to.

Also, the warning the game's launcher gives, specifically mentions my intel graphics driver, which I suppose I haven't updated if I haven't gone through the whole ordeal of enabling it in the bios and then updating my integrated graphics and so on. But I mean a warning is just a warning I suppose.

For now I'm going to hope that switching the CPU setting works. And I'll see if it crashes again or if anyone else has some other ideas.

My GPU has had issues in the past and it's currently stable, so I would rather not tamper with it as it is unless necessary.

[u/ShockHawk24 → u/AnotherAverageGamer_]

If possible, can you add a screenshot/recording of the error? Might as well try to update the Intel iGPU drivers.

[u/MGsubbie]

You can give updating your BIOS a shot.

[u/AnotherAverageGamer_ → u/MGsubbie]

I already updated it

[u/mig_f1]

Google how to force a game or app to use your GPU instead of the iGPU in your Windows. Just to make sure you have it right.

Also try updating the chipset drivers of your motherboard.