AMD’s Radeon Software 21.7.2 driver optimises for Chernobylite and the Vulkan API

  

Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.7.2 Highlights

Support For

– Chernobylite

– Added Vulkan Support

– VK_KHR_copy_commands2
– This extension introduces extensible versions of the Vulkan® buffer and image copy commands that can now accept extension-specific information via their copy parameters.

– VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2
– This extension allows more states to be set dynamically to reduce the number of unique pipeline state objects used by an application.

Fixed Issues

– Game Compatibility advisor in AMD Radeonâ„¢ Software may incorrectly advise some users their CPU and/or GPU do not meet the minimum requirements to play some games. If some users are still experiencing this issue, reinstall or upgrade your driver and perform a factory reset. Learn more from AMD here on performing a factory reset.
– If a Blue or Black screen is observed in mobile systems, temporarily disable Enhanced sign-in.
– Resident Evil Villageâ„¢ may experience an intermittent application hang or TDR on AMD Radeonâ„¢ VII graphics products in the first mission of the game.
– A Blue or Black screen may be observed after updating to the latest Radeonâ„¢ Software when core isolation is enabled.

Known Issues

– 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.
– Users may experience difficulties ending a recording session on Open Broadcaster Softwareâ„¢ when recording in H265/HEVC codec on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeonâ„¢ RX 6800XT.
– 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.
– Connecting two displays with large differences in resolution/refresh rates may cause flickering on Radeonâ„¢ RX Vega series graphics products.
– 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.

   

Desktop GPUs 

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