When will there be official support for the battlemage GPUs? Unraid 7.1.0 beta1 supports battlemage and Plex detects it in the transcoder menu. It just can’t/won’t use it.

Time to stick a fork in this one as it’s now in GR.

When you see it in the release notes. [image] Plex Media Server Announcements Plex Media Server 1.43.0.10492 is now available to everyone. NOTE: There has been a significant overhaul of the build and deploy systems. We have tested as best we could but some is…

Yeah I’m keen on this two I asked early January and there was a comment to expect for this month at the latest

Anyone who can assist me maybe ? :slight_smile:

Just saw this on the latest beta release- “Transcoding) Added support for battlemage GPUs. (PM-3178)”. I’ll be trying it out later! :slight_smile:

Looks like the time has come [image] Plex Media Server Announcements Plex Media Server 1.43.1.10540 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. NEW: A new NFO metadata agent for Movie and TV Show libraries. (Transcoding) Add support for …

@FordGuy61 Maybe you can help me? When do I know when I can use xe drivers for my Proxmox server ? Dont know if this is the wrong place to ask this or not , but its hard to find any details about it. Running Plex in a LXC container with hw transcoding working just fine . As I understand XE driver…

Yay no more alpha build. My battlemage is now running on the new beta version and working, at least in limited tests. Thanks to Chris and everyone that made this happen.

As far as I know, there’s no version of intel graphics that can use both i915 and Xe. Your processor only has 1 set or the other. The 2 drivers support different graphics cards/igpus. If i915 loads, then you have one of the older iGPUs. Xe is for Battlemage cards and specific new gpus that have …

[image] Morphy: Maybe you can help me? I’m not the right person to help. I’ve never used Proxmox, LXC containers, or systems with ARC graphics. No idea how to configure passthrough for GPUs, etc. AFAIK, the hw transcoding should work on the 285T. It has Alchemist graphics, the same as the…

My cpu has XE-Arc , new arrowlake cpu. I need to enable xe driver in grub in Proxmox which works fine . But making the Ubuntu use xe seems a be a problem :confused:

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