AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.1 Released

[Red Hawk]

AMD released some new drivers today, coinciding with the release of Deus Ex Mankind Divided's DirectX 12 patch. Be sure to install it if you plan on playing that game in DX12!

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.1 Highlights

• Support for:
  • Deus Ex™: Mankind Divided (DirectX®12)
    
• New AMD CrossFire profile added for DirectX® 11:
  • DOTA™2

Fixed Issues

• A small number of 144Hz non-FreeSync enabled displays may exhibit flickering during gaming or on desktop.
• FreeSync may stay enabled while on desktop causing flickering.
• Grand Theft Auto V™ may experience an application hang after loading story mode.
• DiRT™ Rally rain drops may flicker when using high or ultra in game settings.
• DOOM™ may experience a hang on game exit in some limited AMD PowerXpress configurations.
• Total War™: Warhammer may experience negative AMD CrossFire scaling on some Radeon RX 400 series configurations.
• GPU utilization may remain high when idle after running SteamVR performance benchmark.
• Pixel format options may be missing from Radeon Settings for some limited system configurations on Radeon RX 480 graphics.
• Radeon Software may intermittently fail to install or hang on some AMD CrossFire configurations. If this happens users can reboot and re-install without issue as a workaround.
• Some Radeon RX 400 series graphics products may experience high GPU usage when resuming from sleep.

Known Issues

• A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay".
• Upgrading from a previous Radeon Software Crimson Edition version may cause user settings in Radeon Settings to reset to defaults.
• OpenCL applications may run initially on integrated graphics if they are present. Make sure to set the application to the correct device you would like to use.
• Radeon Settings information tab may report incorrect Open CL or Mantle versions.
• Radeon Software installer may report driver uninstallation failed even when it was successful.
• No Man's Sky™ some minor corruption may be experienced when standing close to solid structures inside of caves.
• Mouse cursor corruption may be experienced very intermittently on the Radeon RX 480.
• DOTA2™ may experience an application hang when using the Vulkan™ API and changing resolution or game/quality settings.
• Ashes of the Singularity™ may experience an application crash with "crazy" in game settings and Multi-GPU enabled.

 

[Bacon1]

Apparently the DX11 draw calls are improved a lot in this driver:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/51qr80/amd_dx11_api_overhead_1691_vs_1683/

 

[Eymar]

Here's my 3dmark API overhead scores with I3-6300 and rx480 (7.7% improvement on DX11 ST draw calls per frame over 16.8.3): http://www.3dmark.com/compare/aot/165159/aot/164951 (16.9.1 (left) vs 16.8.3).

Update:
Results with i7-4790k@4.7Ghz and Rx 480 (minimal improvement to no improvement in DX11 ST over 16.8.3):
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/aot/165904/aot/165700#

 

[gradoman]

Installed from 16.7.3 and all of sudden any video I play with MPC in full screen causes MPC to suck down all of my system memory and causes a lock up soon after. Back to 16.7.3. Tried DDU several times to no avail.

 

[lupi]

I never was able to get the 16.7.3 drivers to install on my system so had to go back to an earlier version. Tried these tonight and it worked right away.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Has anyone had any problems resuming from sleep, on Win10 1607 64-bit with these drivers?

I think I installed them a week ago, and I *just* had an issue waking my PC from sleep.

It is overclocked, but it's been stable for nearly a year at these settings.

 

[gradoman]

Has anyone had any problems resuming from sleep, on Win10 1607 64-bit with these drivers?

I think I installed them a week ago, and I *just* had an issue waking my PC from sleep.

It is overclocked, but it's been stable for nearly a year at these settings.

I can try it on a system with 2600k and R9 290. I'll let you know what happens in a couple hours.

 

[Bacon1]

Has anyone had any problems resuming from sleep, on Win10 1607 64-bit with these drivers?

I think I installed them a week ago, and I *just* had an issue waking my PC from sleep.

It is overclocked, but it's been stable for nearly a year at these settings.

I've had lots of issues with Win10 waking from sleep, but on multiple computers with different video cards even including onboard intel, so I think its a Win10 issue not GPU.

 

[gradoman]

Okay, so I solved the memory sucking issue by fiddling with MadVR a bit. Under Settings -> Rendering -> General Settings -> Use Direct3D11 for Presentation prevents the crazy memory usage problem with these drivers and MadVR. Just put the other PC to sleep for a bit to see what happens. I don't normally put the PCs to sleep. It's either on or off, but we'll see in a few.

Edit: Tried sleeping and three times the PC resumed without issues.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I just woke the PC up, and some of the icons in the start menu for various programs were missing too. Wondering what's up with that.