The most recent model of Intel Arc GPU Graphics Software program launched an attention-grabbing change that is not mirrored within the Launch Notes. The installer of the 101.4578 beta drivers add a “Compute Enchancment Program” (CIP) part as a part of the “typical” setup choice that’s enabled by default. Beneath the “customized” installer choice that it’s a must to activate manually, you get to pick which parts to put in. The Compute Enchancment Program may be unchecked right here, to make sure knowledge assortment is disabled. The benignly named CIP is a knowledge assortment part that tracks your PC utilization and efficiency within the background (not simply that of the GPU), so Intel can use the information to enhance its future merchandise. Intel created a dedicated webpage that spells out what CIP is, and what its scope of information assortment is; the place is says that CIP “doesn’t accumulate your identify, e-mail deal with, telephone quantity, delicate private data, or bodily location (apart from nation).”
Intel CIP is functionally much like the Telemetry part of the GeForce Software program. NVIDIA’s Telemetry is put in and enabled by default alongside along with your GeForce graphics drivers, and you can not decide out from it, because it doesn’t even determine within the “customized” installer choices. AMD handles its model of CIP and Telemetry in arguably probably the most clear method. The installer of AMD Software program Adrenalin presents the choice to stop its data-collection instrument from being enabled on the completion of driver set up, no matter whether or not you have chosen the “typical,” “driver solely,” or “customized” set up choices. There’s a whole web page of the installer devoted to this, you see a big checkbox about data-collection that is checked by default, however which you’ll uncheck, and full set up.
