AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 Hotfix Release

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http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD_Radeon_Software_Crimson_Edition_16.2.aspx


Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 Highlights

◾AMD has partnered with Stardock in association with Oxide to bring gamers Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2.0 the first benchmark to release with DirectX® 12 benchmarking capabilities such as Asynchronous Compute, multi-GPU and multi-threaded command buffer Re-ordering. Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 is optimized to support this exciting new release.

◾The SteamVR Performance Test: we are pleased to report that our Radeon R9 390, Nano, and Fury series GPUs are all able to achieve 'VR Recommended' status, the highest achievable level of experience possible. In addition to that, our affinity multi-GPU feature is already showing significant performance uplift over a single GPU on Radeon cards in the aforementioned benchmark


◾Performance and quality improvements for
Rise of the Tomb Raider™
Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2

◾Crossfire Profiles available for
The Division
XCOM 2

 

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Resolved Issues
◾A black screen/TDR error may be encountered when booting a system with Intel + AMD graphics and an HDMI monitor connected
◾Choppy gameplay may be experienced when both AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ are both enabled
◾Display corruption may be observed after keeping system idle for some time
◾Fallout 4 - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire™ enabled
◾Fallout 4 - Foliage/water may ripple/stutter when game is launched in High/Ultra settings mode
◾Fallout 4 - Screen tearing in systems with both AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled if game is left idle for a short period of time
◾Fallout 4 - Thumbnails may flicker or disappear while scrolling the Perk levels page
◾Far Cry 4 - Stuttering may be observed when launching the game with AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled
◾FRTC options are displayed on some unsupported laptop configurations with Intel CPU's and AMD GPU's
◾Radeon Settings may sometimes fails to launch with a "Context Creation Error" message
◾Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Corruption can be observed at some locations during gameplay
◾Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations when the game is left idle in AMD Crossfire™ mode under Windows 7
◾Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Game may intermittently crash or hang when launched with very high settings and AA is set to SMAA at 4K resolution
◾Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Lara Croft's hair may flicker in some locations if the Esc key is pressed
◾Rise of Tomb Raider™ - A TDR error may be observed with some AMD Radeon 300 Series products after launching the "Geothermal Valley" mission
◾The AMD Overdrive™ memory clock slider does not show original clock values if memory speeds are overclocked
◾World of Warcraft runs extremely slowly in quad crossfire at high resolutions

Known Issues
◾A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"
◾Star Wars™: Battlefront - Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
◾Cannot enable AMD Crossfire with some dual GPU AMD Radeon HD 59xx and HD 79xx series products
◾Fallout 4 - In game stutter may be experienced if the game is launched with AMD Crossfire enabled
◾XCOM 2 - Flickering textures may be experienced at various game locations
◾Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - The game may randomly crash on launch if Tessellation is enabled
◾Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption

 

[LTC8K6]

Optimizing a driver for a benchmark?

I remember when that used to be naughty...

 

[Silverforce11]

RTG, finally understanding PR?

Hopefully they keep it up, send out press releases for every new game, beta or benchmark and do a driver version iteration, +0.0.1 and call it "Game Optimized" or something. It's good for PR.

 

[MajinCry]

Optimizing a driver for a benchmark?

I remember when that used to be naughty...

Isn't that what NVidia did for Star Swarm, where they jacked in a Geometry Instancing shader? Then everyone pointed at it and touted NVidia as having low-level API-like efficiency with D3D 11.

AMD's "optimization" sounds quite a bit more innocent in nature than that.

 

[Paul98]

Anyone doing a before and after 16.2 AotS benchmark?

 

[Mahigan]

Optimizing a driver for a benchmark?

I remember when that used to be naughty...

Ashes of the Singularity is a game, in Beta. Last I checked NVIDIA have been optimizing their drivers for it since its Alpha state.

The new*GeForce Game Ready 355.60 WHQL drivers*are now available to download from*GeForce Experience*and*GeForce.com.

Just in time for the DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 preview edition of*Ashes of the Singularity, this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you'll have the best possible gaming experience in the massive-scale Real Time Strategy game.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-355-60-whql-driver-released

 

[LTC8K6]

I wasn't attacking AMD for it, I just remember back in the day...

 

[Kenmitch]

Anyone doing a before and after 16.2 AotS benchmark?

Maybe these guys will do another run with the latest drivers.

http://www.techspot.com/article/1137-directx-12-multi-gpu-geforce-radeon/

 

[xthetenth]

Any idea how the CF profile is for XCOM 2? Apparently NV just released an SLI profile but it's kind of hackish.

 

[dionasaur]

Ugh, glad they fixed the display corruption issue ~_~

 

[KaRLiToS]

Ugh, glad they fixed the display corruption issue ~_~

Me too.

 

[flopper]

Me too.

Hugs Karlitos

 

[Achilleslastand]

Just downloaded the Crimson drivers and do I need both hotfixes or will 16.2 cover them both?

 

[Bacon1]

16.2 is stand alone, not a patch.

Use DDU, reboot into safe mode and run it, reboot into regular, install 16.2, enjoy!

 

[guskline]

Running well.

 

[Shmee]

Cool I will have to check these out soon.

 

[Elixer]

This is a odd way to release drivers.
These have no vulkan support in them at all... so, these are older than the drivers with vulkan?

 

[Kenmitch]

This is a odd way to release drivers.
These have no vulkan support in them at all... so, these are older than the drivers with vulkan?

The Vulcan drivers are a add on I thought. At least remember reading so in another thread.

 

[Elixer]

The Vulcan drivers are a add on I thought. At least remember reading so in another thread.

Well, they are a dll, just like their openGL drivers are, but, they are not in a separate package.

If you installed the vulkan drivers before, and install these, then you still have the vulkan dlls in the system directory, but, if you do a clean install of these drivers, then you will not have any vulkan support, but, if you install the vulkan drivers, then your DX 12 and other drivers all get a older version.

This is why I find it confusing they would do this like that.
The RSCE 16.2's could have had the vulkan drivers included as well (as they have the SATA, chipset, USB and whatever else), but, for some odd reason they didn't, which makes me think this is because it is an older set of drivers.

 

[AtenRa]

I dont know what the hell happened but when I upgraded from 15.12 to 16.2 my APUs iGPU frequency were only working at 354MHz on Win 10 64bit. No matter what i have tried, iGPU clocks were constant at 354MHz all the time (desktop and gaming).

Uninstalling the driver, even using DDU, and reinstalling 16.2 alone didnt make any change and eventually I had to go back to 15.12 in order to fix this behavior.

 

[Innokentij]

Damn that is some seriouse issues. I wouldnt be happy if i was stuck with this while i waited for a driver.

 

[railven]

I've been using the basement PC a lot lately (working on new shelves), and the first thing I noticed - I haven't had a TDR issue!!!

My main rig continues to TDR almost daily, religiously, almost as if it didn't happen, it would die or something haha. (Disclaimer: issue is exclusive to my rig, so most likely some combination of software, GF's PC has no TDR issues. Basement PC has similar software combinations but no TDR issues.)