AMD releases their Radeon Software 18.8.1 driver for Monster Hunter: World and Battle for Azeroth

  

  

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.1 Highlights

Support For

– Monster Hunter: World

  – Up toto 5% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.1 on the Radeonâ„¢ RX Vega 64 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.6.1 at 1920×1080 (1080p)1
  – Up to 6% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.1 on the Radeonâ„¢ RX 580 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.6.1 at 1920×1080 (1080p)2

– World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

– We Happy Few

– Madden NFL 19

Fixed Issues

– Fortnite may experience an application crash on game launch in Windows 7.
– Some games may experience a game crash or hang on multi GPU system configurations when changing or applying resolutions.
– Graphics and memory clock speeds may remain elevated or locked while gaming if video content is also playing on the system.
– Civilization VI may experience a game crash using DirectX 12 API on game or map launch.
– Samsung HMD Odyssey may experience intermittent black screens or flashing on Radeon RX Vega series graphics products.

Known Issues

– Cursor or system lag may be observed on some system configurations when two or more displays are connected and one display is powered off.
– Some games may experience instability or stutter when playing with FRTC and Instant Replay enabled.
– Toggling performance metrics while gaming on a non-native display resolution may cause the game to scale incorrectly.
– Radeon WattMan memory and frequency sliders may not list correct minimum values.
– Upgrade Advisor may fail to show up in Radeon Settings.
– Radeon FreeSync may fail to enable when playing Monster Hunterâ„¢: World.
– Video profiles may not correctly apply on web browser video content.

Added Vulkan Extension Support

– VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing
  – This extension adds several small features which together enable applications to create large descriptor sets containing substantially all of their resources and selecting amongst those resources with dynamic (non-uniform) indexes in the shader.
– VK_KHR_get_display_properties2
  – This extension provides new entry points to query device display properties and capabilities in a way that can be easily extended by other extensions, without introducing any further entry points.
– VK_KHR_8bit_storage
  – This extension allows use of 8-bit types in uniform and storage buffers and push constant blocks.
– VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count
  – This extension allows an application to source the number of draw calls for indirect draw calls from a buffer.
– VK_KHR_create_renderpass2
  – This extension provides a new entry point to create render passes in a way that can be easily extended by other extensions through the substructures of render pass creation.
– EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor
  – This extension allows instance-rate vertex attributes to be repeated for certain number of instances instead of advancing for every instance when instanced rendering is enabled.

Supported Desktop GPUs