AMD releases its Radeon Software 21.8.1 driver for their RX 6600 XT graphics card
AMD releases its Radeon Software 21.8.1 driver for their RX 6600 XT graphics card
For the most part, AMD’s Radeon Software 20.8.1 remains unchanged over the company’s older 20.7.2 driver, containing only a single fix and support for a single new graphics card. Unless you are buying an RX 6600 XT tomorrow, this driver may be worth skipping.
Below you can read the release notes for AMD’s Radeon Software 20.8.1 driver, which includes a list of known issues that AMD are currently working on. Expect these issues to be addressed with future Radeon Software releases.
Support For
– AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Graphics
Fixed Issues
– The Medium may crash after launching the game while running FrameView.
Known Issues
– Upgrading to the latest Radeon™ graphics driver may cause the auto update feature on Ryzen™ Master to stop working. A temporary workaround is to manually update Ryzen™ Master.
– While playing Control™ using DirectX® 12, users may observe corrupt light rays on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6600 XT.
– Driver timeouts may be experienced while playing a game & streaming a video simultaneously on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 500 Series Graphics.
– Users may experience difficulties ending a recording session on Open Broadcaster Software™ when recording in H265/HEVC codec on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6800XT.
– AMD Radeon™ Software may crash or become unresponsive while playing some DirectX® 11 games such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™ with multiple displays connected in extended mode.
– Playing Horizon Zero Dawn™ for an extended period may lead to a driver timeout or game crash on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
– Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
– Connecting two displays with large differences in resolution/refresh rates may cause flickering on Radeon RX Vega series graphics products.
– Radeon performance metrics and logging features may intermittently report extremely high and incorrect memory clock values.
AMD Link for Windows Known Issues
– Intermittent grey frame corruption might be observed when streaming with HEVC on certain configurations via an Internet connection. A workaround is to use the AVC encoding setting instead.
Desktop GPUs
Radeon Product Family Compatibility
Radeon RX 6000 Series Radeon RX 6000M Series Radeon RX Navi 5700/5600 Series Radeon VII Radeon RX 5500 Series RX 5300M (Notebook GPU) Radeon RX Vega Series AMD Radeon Pro Duo Radeon RX 500 Series Graphics AMD Radeon RX 400 Series Graphics
Download Links
– Windows 10 (64-bit)
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