AMD released their Radeon Software 18.2.1 driver

AMD released their Radeon Software 18.2.1 driver

AMD released their Radeon Software 18.2.1 driver

AMD has officially released their Radeon Software Adrenalin 18.2.1 driver, which offers game-specific optimisations for Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age.  

This new driver iteration also offers several bug fixes for Radeon users, primarily relating to FreeSync and Radeon Chill/Overlay support within gaming titles that make use of the Vulkan API (Titles like DOOM 2016 and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus). 

  

 

Introducing Radeonâ„¢ Software Adrenalin Edition, artfully designed and meticulously crafted to unleash the powerful performance and innovation built into Radeon Graphics through an incredibly intuitive and utterly beautiful user interface for both PCs and mobile devices.

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1 Highlights


Support For

– Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age

Resolved Issues

– Radeon FreeSync may rapidly change between min and max range when enabled causing stutter in fullscreen games on single display system configurations.
– Sid Meier’s Civilization® V may fail to launch on Hybrid Graphics system configurations when using DirectX®9 API.
– Radeon FreeSync may exhibit a black screen on some games when using Samsungâ„¢ CF791 displays.
– Radeon Chill game settings profiles may fail to enable on Vulkanâ„¢ API games.
– Radeon Overlay may fail to open in some Vulkanâ„¢ API games.
– Need for Speedâ„¢ Payback may exhibit corruption on some terrain.
– Textures in Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 V Generationâ„¢ may appear corrupted or exhibit flickering colours.

Known Issues

– Radeon FreeSync may intermittently incorrectly engage during Chrome video playback resulting in playback flicker.
– Radeon Overlay hotkey may fail to bring up the overlay or may cause a Radeon Host Application crash intermittently on a limited number of gaming titles.
– Radeon FreeSync may rapidly change between min and max range when enabled causing stutter in fullscreen games on multi display system configurations.
– Flickering may be observed on the performance metrics overlay when Enhanced Sync is enabled on some Radeon FreeSync connected displays.
– A random system hang may be experienced after extended periods of use on system configurations using 12 GPU’s for compute workloads.
– Water textures may appear to be missing in World of Final Fantasyâ„¢.
– The GPU Workload feature may cause a system hang when switching to Compute while AMD CrossFire is enabled. A workaround is to disable AMD CrossFire before switching the toggle to Compute workloads.

Supported Desktop GPUs 

Radeon Desktop Product Family Compatibility

Radeon RX Vega 64 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Radeon RX 580 AMD Radeon RX 570
Radeon RX 560  AMD RX 550
Radeon RX 400 Series Graphics AMD Radeon R7 300 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon Pro Duo AMD Radeon R7 200 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series Graphics AMD Radeon R5 300 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Series Graphics AMD Radeon R5 200 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon R9 300 Series Graphics AMD Radeon HD 8500 – HD 8900 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon R9 200 Series Graphics AMD Radeon HD 7700 – HD 7900 Series Graphics

 

Full Release notes for this driver can be viewed here

 

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