AMD’s ready for Star Wars, Black Ops 6, and more with their new Radeon 24.8.1 drivers

Radeon’s ready for Star Wars: Outlaws, Black Ops 6, and more with their AMD Software 24.8.1 GPU drivers

AMD has released their new 24.8.1 driver for Radeon GPUs, delivering game-specific optimisations for Black Myth Wukong, the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Beta and many of this month’s other major PC game releases. This includes Star Wars: Outlaws, and Concord.

Note that this new driver from AMD doesn’t feature the company’s new Fluid Motion Frames 2 technology, which remains exclusive to the company’s preview drivers.

Highlights

• • New Game Support

    • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Open Beta
    • Concord
    • FINAL FANTASY XVI
    • Star Wars Outlaws

  • Expanded HYPR-Tune Support

    • HYPR-Tune support allows HYPR-RX to enable in-game technologies like AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution.
    • Support now added to automatically configure AMD FSR 3 frame generation in:
      • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
      • Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
      • Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
    • Click HERE for more information regarding HYPR-RX

• • AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 Support for Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT

    • Takes responsive gaming to the next level by introducing an in-game option to optimally pace frames, further reducing input lag on AMD RDNA architecture-based discrete and integrated graphics products.
      • Get a decrease in latency in Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT at 4K “Very High” settings of up to 28% when using AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 with frame generation with AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 compared to using it without AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 on the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card. ^RS-669
      • Users looking for a way to measure response time can use our Frame Latency Meter (FLM) or the built-in latency monitor in AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2.
    • Check out our new blog HERE to learn about the benefits of Anti-Lag 2 and how to monitor your latency.

• AI on Radeon

  • Support and optimizations for the latest 2.1 version of Amuse application with FLUX.1 model support.
    • Amuse 2.1 is supported on
      • Radeon 7000 Series
      • Ryzen AI 300, 8040 & 7040 Series
    • FLUX.1 model is supported on
      • Radeon RX 7900 series, AMD Radeon PRO W7900 and AMD Radeon PRO W7800 graphics cards.
      • Minimum 32GB system RAM required.
    • Click HERE for more information.

• Fixed Issues and Improvements

  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may occur while playing Black Myth: Wukong.
  • Intermittent application crash may occur while playing Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess on some Radeon RX 6600 and 6700 series GPUs.
  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may occur while launching Pacific Drive or KINGDOM HEARTS -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX-.
  • Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering settings from AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition may fail to correctly apply for OpenGL applications.
  • Artifacts may appear while playing certain games such as Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales or Rust.
  • Increased memory usage may be observed while playing certain versions of Minecraft Java Edition.
  • Improved “Optimizing Shaders” time when initially launching Forza Motorsport.

Known Issues

• Overly dark shadows or desaturated colors may be observed while playing Black Myth: Wukong when Global Illumination is to Medium or higher. Users experiencing this issue may set Global Illumination to Low as a temporary workaround. [Resolution targeted for 24.9.1]
• Audio and video may intermittently become out of sync while recording using the AV1 codec in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition. [Resolution targeted for 24.9.2]

Important Notes

• AMD is working with the developers of Star Wars Outlaws to address an intermittent corruption issue that occurs after changing certain in-game graphics settings. As a temporary measure, users experiencing this issue may need to relaunch the game.
• Click HERE for the latest AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Preview Driver including the groundbreaking AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) 2 – a major advancement in frame generation technology.

AMD Software GPU support

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.8.1 supports graphics cards as far back as AMD’s Radeon RX 5000 series. This driver only supports RDNA based Radeon graphics cards.

PC gamers can download AMD’s 24.8.1 GPU driver for RDNA and newer GPUs here.

You can join the discussion on AMD Radeon Software 24.8.1 on the OC3D Forums.