AMD’s Radeon Software 21.11.2 driver offers gamers a 10+% boost in Battlefield 2042

  

Support For

Battlefield 2042

Up to 14% increase in performance in Battlefieldâ„¢ 2042 @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeonâ„¢ Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 on the 16 GB Radeonâ„¢ RX 6900 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.4.RS-431

Up to 15% increase in performance in Battlefieldâ„¢ 2042 @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeonâ„¢ Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 on the 16 GB Radeonâ„¢ RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.4.RS-432

Up to 11% increase in performance in Battlefieldâ„¢ 2042 @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeonâ„¢ Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 on the 16 GB Radeonâ„¢ RX 6700 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.4.RS-433

Known Issues

– During Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxyâ„¢ gameplay, some users may experience driver timeouts on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeonâ„¢ RX 5500 XT Graphics. A temporary workaround is to disable the Radeonâ„¢ Anti-Lag feature in Radeonâ„¢ Software.
– Some users may experience elevated disk space consumption by the Multimedia Athena Dumps folder.
– Visual artifacts may be observed while playing Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeonâ„¢ RX 6800M Graphics.
– While playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegroundsâ„¢ with multiple displays connected in extended mode, Radeonâ„¢ Software may become unresponsive when the user is in the lobby and attempts to open Radeon Software on the secondary display via the context menu. A temporary workaround is to press the Alt + R keyboard shortcut if this happens.
– 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-431 – Testing conducted by AMD as of November 10, 2021, on a test system comprised of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 16GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU, and Windows 10 Pro, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 and 21.10.4 on Battlefield 2042. Game tested with ultra preset at 4K. Performance may vary.
– RS-432 – Testing conducted by AMD as of November 10, 2021, on a test system comprised of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 16GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU, and Windows 10 Pro, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 and 21.10.4 on Battlefield 2042. Game tested with ultra preset at 4K. Performance may vary.
– RS-433 – Testing conducted by AMD as of November 10, 2021, on a test system comprised of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 16GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU, and Windows 10 Pro, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 and 21.10.4 on Battlefield 2042. Game tested with ultra preset at 4K. Performance may vary.

  

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