AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 – Tweakers

AMD has released a new version of Radeon Software Crimson edition, as the drivers are called nowadays. The drivers are suitable for the HD 7750 and above, the HD 8570 and higher, and of course the cards from the R5, R7 and R9 series. As for Windows versions are only 7, 8.1, and 10 is supported. For older maps that are legacy or non-GCN be marked, version 15.7.1 is the latest stable release is version 16.2 and offered as a beta.

Radeon Software includes a completely redesigned user interface, which is written in Qt and no longer in .NET, which makes, among other things a lot faster. There is support for LiquidVR technology and improved Free Sync support. Also frame pacing, low frame rate compensation and the use of custom resolutions and virtual super resolution improved. APUs for the new driver improves video playback. Finally, the load time of games has improved and would devoid GPUs less energy. In version 16.2, the following improvements have been further made:

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 Highlights
 

• AMD HAS partnered with Stardock in association with oxide to bring gamers Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2.0 the first benchmark to release with DirectX 12 benchmarking capabilities zoals Asynchronous Compute, multi-GPU and multi-threaded command buffer Re-ordering. Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 is optimized to support this exciting new release.

 
• The SteamVR Performance Test: We are pleased to report our That Radeon R9 390, Nano, and Fury series GPUs are all editable to Achieve ‘VR Recommended “status, the highest achievable level of experience possible. In Addition to that, our affinity multi-GPU feature is already showing significant uplift performance over a single GPU on Radeon cards in the aforementioned benchmark

 

• Performance and quality improvements for
   
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider

   

  • Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2

   

 

• Crossfire Profiles available for
   

 

Resolved Issues
 

• A black screen / TDR May be error is encountered When booting a system with Intel + AMD graphics and an HDMI monitor connected

 

• Choppy gameplay May be experienced When both AMD and AMD Crossfire Free Sync are both enabled

 

• Display corruption May be observed after keeping system idle for some time

 

• Fallout 4 – Flickering May be experienced at various gaming locations with the v1.3 update game and with AMD Crossfire enabled

 

• Fallout 4 – Foliage / water ripple May / stutter When game Launched in High / Ultra settings mode

 

• Fallout 4 – Screen tearing in systems with both AMD Free Sync and AMD Crossfire enabled if game has been left idle for a short period of time

 

• Fallout 4 – Thumbnails May flicker or disappear while scrolling the page Perk levels

 

• Far Cry 4 – Stuttering May be Observed When launching the game with AMD Free Sync and AMD Crossfire enabled

 

• FRTC options are displayed on some unsupported laptop configurations with Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs

 

• Radeon Settings May sometimes fails to launch with a “Context Creation Error” message

 

• Rise of the Tomb Raider – Corruption can be observed at some locations during gameplay

 

• Rise of the Tomb Raider – Flickering May be experienced at various locations Game When the game is left idle in AMD Crossfire mode under Windows 7

 

• Rise of the Tomb Raider – Game May intermittently crash or hang When Launched with very high settings and AA is set to SMAA at 4K resolution

 

• Rise of the Tomb Raider – Lara Croft’s hair May flicker in some locations if the Esc key is pressed

 

• Rise of Tomb Raider – A TDR error May be observed with some AMD Radeon 300 series products after launching the “Geothermal Valley” mission

 

• The AMD Overdrive Memory clock slider does not show original values ​​if memory clock speeds are overclocked

 

• World of Warcraft runs extremely slowly in quad crossfire at high resolutions

 

Known Issues
 

• A few game titles May Fail to Launch or crash if the Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved “In Game Overlay”

 

• Star Wars: Battlefront – Corrupted ground textures May be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission

 

• Can not enable AMD Crossfire with some dual GPU AMD Radeon HD 59xx and HD 79xx series products

 

• Fallout 4 – In game stutter May be experienced if the game is Launched with AMD Crossfire enabled

 

• XCOM 2 – Flickering textures May be experienced at various gaming locations

 

• Rise of the Tomb Raider – The Game May randomly crash on launch if Tessellation is enabled

 

• Core clocks May not maintain sustained clock speeds Resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption