AMD has released its Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 driver. The latest driver includes support for EA and DICE’s new multiplayer-only shooter, Battlefield 2042, which launched today in early access (November 19 is the official release date). Radeon RX 6800 XT users can expect up to a 15 percent increase in performance under the 4K Ultra setting versus the previous driver, while Radeon RX 6900 XT and Radeon RX 6700 XT users should see performance improvements of up to 14 and 11 percent, respectively.
A direct link to the Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 Driver for Windows 10 and Windows 11 64-bit systems can be found here.
Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 Highlights
Support For
- Battlefield 2042
- Up to 14% increase in performance in Battlefield 2042 @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 on the 16 GB Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.4.
- Up to 15% increase in performance in Battlefield 2042 @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 on the 16 GB Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.4
- Up to 11% increase in performance in Battlefield 2042 @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 on the 16 GB Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.4.
Known Issues
- During Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy gameplay, some users may experience driver timeouts on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 5500 XT Graphics. A temporary workaround is to disable the Radeon Anti-Lag feature in Radeon 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 Radeon RX 6800M Graphics.
- While playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds with multiple displays connected in extended mode, Radeon 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.
Source: AMD