AMD’s latest Graphics driver prep Radeon for WWZ: Aftermath, Diablo II: Resurrected and New World

AMD’s Radeon Software 21.9.2 driver has arrived

AMD has just launched their Radeon Software 21.9.2 driver, delivering game-specific optimisations to users of their graphics cards for World War Z Aftermath (with releases today), Diablo II: Resurrected, and New World (Amazon’s upcoming MMO).

In Diablo II: Resurrected, AMD has reported that their Radeon 21.9.2 drivers deliver performance boosts of up to 13% at 4K Very High Settings on an RX 6700 XT when compared to their older 21.9.1 driver. Sadly, AMD has not revealed what framerates the game was running at under these in-game settings. 

AMD has also updated their drivers to enable their Auto-overclocking feature for users of Ryzen 5000 series processors and Radeon 6000 series graphics cards. Previously, some users of AMD’s 21.9.1 drivers were unable to access this new feature. 

Below are AMD’s full release notes for their Radeon Software 21.9.2 drivers. 
  

  

Support For

– World War Z: Aftermath

– Diablo II: Resurrected
– Up to 13% increase in performance in Diablo® II: Resurrected @ 4K Very High settings, using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.9.2 on the 12GB Radeon RX 6700XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver edition 21.9.1.RS-403

– New World

Fixed Issues

– In Radeonâ„¢ Software, the CPU Additional Metrics section within the Performance tab may be missing for some users.
– Some users may receive a compatibility error message when they attempt to load a previously saved tuning profile.
– While playing Hitmanâ„¢ 3 on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeonâ„¢ RX 6800 XT, users may experience an issue where water along the shores becomes missing.
– The Auto Overclock feature for CPU in Radeonâ„¢ Software may be missing for some users with an AMD Ryzenâ„¢ 5000 series processor and AMD Radeonâ„¢ 6000 series graphics card.

Known Issues

– Open Broadcaster Softwareâ„¢ may continue to run in the background after a user ends a recording session and closes the application.
– Driver timeouts may be experienced while playing a game & streaming a video simultaneously on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeonâ„¢ RX 500 Series Graphics.
– AMD Radeonâ„¢ Software may crash or become unresponsive while playing some DirectX® 11 games such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegroundsâ„¢ with multiple displays connected in extended mode.
– Playing Horizon Zero Dawnâ„¢ for an extended period may lead to a driver timeout or game crash on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeonâ„¢ 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.
– 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.
Footnote
RS-403 – Testing conducted by AMD as of September 17, 2021, on a test system comprised of a Ryzen 7 5800X CPU, 16GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU, and Windows Pro, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.9.2 and 21.9.1 on Diablo II: Resurrected. Game tested with very high preset at 4K. Performance may vary.

  

Desktop GPUs 

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