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Shaurya12
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Jun 01, 2021

edge is slow still on stable version but BIG improvements

Hey everyone, I am pretty amazed by what the Edge developer team has done, they had made BIG improvements in performance and stability. However there is one big problem. The bugs. I know it is annoy...
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Villaseca
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Dec 09, 2021

Shaurya12 I confirm this.

I have an Acer Aspire A515-56 (11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz 2.42 GHz) with 20 GB RAM.

I've had small issues with every Intel Iris Xe driver 27.20 version up to its latest 27.20.100.9466 version (mainly random Autocad crashes, but nothing really serious)

BUT the newest versions of the driver, 30.0.100.xxx and the latest 30.0.101.1069 simply don't work with Microsoft at all. Everything else works ok, including Firefox, BUT Edge, Microsoft 365 (v2019, mainly Outlook, Word and Excel) become extremely laggy, to the point of being unusable. Experimenting with Office apps "Disable hardware acceleration" solves the issue in Edge, Outlook and Excel, but as my Word version does not have that option available for some unknow reason, it can't be fixed.

As said, all other programs, including games, work just well with either driver. This just confirms the issue is a conclict between Iris Xe driver and the way Microsoft implemented hardware acceleration in Edge and Office apps.

Reverting back to driver v27.20.100.9466 solves all the aforementioned issues.

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