Okay, so I have had some findings that I wanted to share. I wanted to check what's happening at DX11 api level. I tried using apitrace. This tool doesn't work unfortunately. Because Trackmania process jumps to Ubisoft launcher and then back again to Trackmania.exe, the tool finishes work prematurely and doesn't gather any traces. BUT... I have found that ManiaPlanet v4 is affected by a very similar issue that is resolved by using integrated GPU. ManiaPlanet also does not create new processes, so apitrace was able to dump the traces. Upon inspection it is clear that API calls are exactly the same on both GPUs which suggests that the fault is in intel's discrete GPU drivers. I will submit these findings to intel, but I only have confirmed the issue for ManiaPlanet. I would appreciate if you could help with confirming the issue for Trackmania.

Update: I managed to gather DX11 API logs for Trackmania too. In this case, that's not so clear cut. For one, there is no longer "DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED" error anywhere in the logs. The logs are slightly different between the GPUs, but differences seem to be negligible. For Trackmania it sems that the issue is elsewhere, not in DX11 particularly.

@SirFox_TM what cpu are you using? Do you have a discrete gpu to test the game with?

I find it kind of interesting because in my system which has Iris Xe (i7-12700H) and A770M, the Iris Xe is able to run the game. However using A770M causes the problems which users have reported for previous Iris Xe generations... With release of A770 and A750 being imminent, there can be many folks facing the same problem.

Hi, I am unable to start the game when using intel ARC A770M GPU. If I force to run it with integrated, then it works fine. From the log file it seems that there is Access Violation error during AppInit. Not sure why such an issue would be caused by a GPU. Hopefully this can be resolved, as I wouldn't want to miss out on such a great game. Please let me know if I can help.

Logs: dxdiag: (https://pastebin.com/yneeMp0R) msinfo32: (https://pastebin.com/KkcFJYKJ) LogCrash_00000000008FBF46.txt: (https://pastebin.com/3PLFt4qB)