AMD releases their Radeon Software 18.10.1 driver for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 Highlights

Support For

– Windows® 10 October 2018 Update

– Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4

– Up to 5% faster performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 using Radeonâ„¢ Software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 on the Radeonâ„¢ RX Vega 64 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeonâ„¢ Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.3 at 1920×1080 (1080p).RS-258
Up to 6% faster performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 using Radeonâ„¢ Software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 on the Radeonâ„¢ RX 580 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeonâ„¢ Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.3 at 1920×1080 (1080p).RS-259

Fixed Issues

-HDMIâ„¢ Audio Drivers may sometimes not upgrade during Radeon Software installation.
– Fortniteâ„¢ may experience lighting corruption when effects quality is set to High or Epic.
– System configurations with 16+ CPU cores may experience a random system reboot during installation when upgrading Radeon Software from a version older than RSAE 18.8.1.
– Sea of Thievesâ„¢ may experience flickering textures in multi GPU system configurations.

Known Issues

– When using Radeon Overlay on system configurations with the latest Windows®10 October 2018 Update some users may experience intermittent instability or game crashes.
– Microsoft® Office applications may experience lag or stutter when dragging applications.
– Radeon RX Vega Series graphics products may experience elevated memory clocks during system idle.

Added Vulkanâ„¢ Extension Support

– VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64
– This extension advertises the SPIR-V Int64Atomics capability for Vulkan, which allows a shader to contain 64-bit atomic operations on signed and unsigned integers.
– VK_KHR_driver_properties
– This extension provides a new physical device query which allows retrieving information about the driver implementation, allowing applications to determine which physical device corresponds to which particular vendor’s driver, and which conformance test suite version the driver implementation is compliant with.
– SPV_GOOGLE_decorate_string
– This extension provides two new instructions to decorate a variable or a struct member with a string.
– SPV_GOOGLE_hlsl_functionality1
– This extension provides two new decorations to extend HLSL functionality: HlslCounterBuffer and HlslSemantic.

Footnotes

– Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of October 9th, 2018 on the 8GB Radeonâ„¢ RX 580, on a test system comprising of Intel i7 7700K CPU (4.2 GHz), 16GB DDR4-3000 Mhz system memory, and Windows 10 x64. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. With very high preset settings on Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the Radeonâ„¢ RX 580 scored with Radeonâ„¢ software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 scored 107.4 FPS whereas the Radeonâ„¢ RX 580 scored 100.9 FPS with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.3. Comparing software versions, Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 has 6% faster performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RS-259
– Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of October 9th, 2018 on the 8GB Radeonâ„¢ RX Vega 64, on a test system comprising of Intel i7 7700K CPU (4.2 GHz), 16GB DDR4-3000 Mhz system memory, and Windows 10 x64. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. With very high preset settings on Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the Radeonâ„¢ RX Vega 64 scored with Radeonâ„¢ software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 scored 162.8 FPS whereas the Radeonâ„¢ RX Vega 64 scored 155.3 FPS with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.3. Comparing software versions, Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 has 5% faster performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RS-258

  
  

Supported Desktop GPUs