Big Bug Fixes! – Radeon’s AMD Software 23.8.1 Driver is ready for Immortals of Aveum and more

AMD’s latest Radeon Driver fix a tonne of bugs and are optimised for Immortals of Aveum  

AMD Software Adrenalin Edition version 23.8.1 has been released, adding game-specific optimisations for EA’s Immortals of Aveum alongside a large number of new bug fixes. 

One of the main bug fixes that are featured within this driver is a high idle power fix for AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs for users of multi-monitor configurations with high refresh rate displays. AMD has confirmed that additional idle power optimisations are getting investigated. 

Crashing issues for RX 7000 series GPUs have also been released to improve the stability of games like Starcraft 2 and Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, and a performance optimisation has been added for Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards for DirectX 11 games when Smart Access Memory is enabled. 

Full release notes for AMD’s Radeon Software 23.8.1 driver can be read below.

Highlights

Support for

– Immortals of Aveum

Fixed Issues

– Improvements to high idle power when using select multi-display setups with mixed high-resolution and high refresh rate displays on Radeonâ„¢ RX 7000 series GPUs with variable refresh rate enabled. Further optimizations are being investigated to improve idle power on additional display configurations.
– Performance drop may be experienced for DirectX® 11 games on AMD Radeonâ„¢ RX 5600 XT when AMD SmartAccess Memory is Enabled.
– Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Ratchet & Clankâ„¢: Rift Apart with Ray-Tracing and Dynamic Resolution Scaling enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeonâ„¢ RX 7900 XTX.
– Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Starcraft IIâ„¢ on Radeonâ„¢ RX 7000 series GPUs.
– Intermittent corruption may be observed playing Rocket Leagueâ„¢ with Bloom set to Off on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeonâ„¢ RX 6900 XT.
– Performance drop may be experienced for various games on AMD Ryzenâ„¢ processors with Radeonâ„¢ 700M series GPUS.

Known Issues

– Performance Metrics Overlay may report N/A for FPS on various games.
– Audio may intermittently become out of sync with video when recording from AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition with AV1 codec.
– Display may not reach correct brightness with certain games on some SAMSUNGâ„¢ FreeSync Premium Pro displays and TVs when local dimming is enabled.
– Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with DirectX® 11 API set on certain systems with Radeonâ„¢ RX 7000 series GPUs.

Important Notes

– Factory Reset has been temporarily disabled as a precautionary measure while we address isolated installation issues that have been reported during PC upgrades. Users may use AMD Cleanup Utility as a temporary option.

Desktop GPUs 

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