AMD has released its Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 driver. The latest driver includes support for Halo Infinite, whose campaign mode will unlock next week on December 8, as well as Fortnite, Icarus, and 3D graphics suite Blender 3.0. Halo Infinite players with higher-level Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards can expect performance increases of up to 19 percent in the 4K Ultra setting versus the previous driver.
A direct link to the Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 driver for Windows 10 and Windows 11 64-bit systems can be found here.
Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 Highlights
Support For
- Halo Infinite
- Up to 17% increase in performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 16 GB Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version
- Up to 19% increase in performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 16 GB Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version
- Up to 16% increase in performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 12 GB Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version
- Fortnite
- Icarus
- Blender 3.0 on Radeon RX 6000 series Graphics.
Fixed Issues
- While running SteamVR Home on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon VII Graphics, some users may experience a crash.
- 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.
- 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.
- Visual corruption may be observed on a vehicle’s logo or license plate number while playing Forza Horizon 5 on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 500 series Graphics.
Known Issues
- After upgrading to the latest Radeon Software, the Power Tuning component of a saved tuning profile may not load correctly when a user imports a previously saved tuning profile.
- 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.
Important Notes
Users may observe visual artifacts while playing Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 6800M Graphics. AMD is working with the game developers to resolve this issue.
Source: AMD