Oh man, so Intel’s Deep Link is kinda biting the dust. You know, it was this fancy feature they threw out there with the Arc Alchemist launch in 2022, but seems like it’s getting ghosted, sorta. Not that Intel’s sending out party invites or anything. Nope, it’s just Zack from Intel dropping the bomb in some GitHub convo. I stumbled across this while scrolling — and no idea why this stuck with me.
So, this user, SapphireDrew, was trying to figure out why his streaming rig’s acting like a moody teenager. Turns out, it’s not OBS screwing up, it’s the drivers. Enter Zack with the news that Deep Link is staying exactly where it is, like an awkward statue. Zack’s chat was like, “Hey @SapphireDrew, we ain’t touching Deep Link anymore, so, uh, yeah, good luck with that.”
Honestly, if you snagged one of those shiny Intel Arc GPUs ’cause you wanted that performance boost, you might be a bit miffed. Deep Link was hyped up to juggle resources between the CPU and GPU like some performance-boosting circus act. It’s got these bits like Dynamic Power Share and Hyper Encode doing their thing — well, they were supposed to.
Kinda wild, right? Deep Link’s like, still there… but not really. Like those party leftovers you forgot in the fridge, smelling funky but you just leave it ‘cause no one’s gonna deal with it. Only works with Intel’s own gear, so if you’re chillin’ with AMD or NVIDIA, forget it.
And that’s it. Just wanna toss a shoutout to where I first caught this — Videocardz, you rock!
