AMD has released its Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 driver, bringing not only new game support for two of the latest titles, but also fixes for over 10 issues. Those would include what AMD has described as “excessive stutter” in select games, including Battlefield 2042, Destiny 2, and Overwatch 2.
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New feature highlights:
- New Game Support
- Skull and Bones
- Nightingale
Fixed issues:
- Improvements to intermittent driver timeout or application crash while playing HELLDIVERS 2.
- Intermittent application crash when first launching Enshrouded or changing Anti-Aliasing settings on Radeon 7000 series graphics products.
- Intermittent driver timeout or application crash may be considered while playing Counterstrike 2 with FSR enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
- Improvements to excessive stutter while playing various games, including Battlefield 2042, Destiny 2, Overwatch 2, Monster Hunter: World, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS and STAR WARS Battlefront II.
- Deathloop may experience extended loading times on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 6900 XT.
- Dead Space may experience an application crash after enabling RTAO on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 6800.
- Shadows may appear bright, or reflections may be missing while playing Enshrouded on Radeon 7000 series graphics products.
- HDR settings may intermittently fail to take effect while playing certain games such as Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
- Graphics API metric may be incorrectly reported as DirectX 12 for some Vulkan games.
- After a system reboot, Parsec host application may experience a crash on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
- During Microsoft Teams meetings, the camera may intermittently display looped footage on some AMD Products, such as the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Processor.
- Oculus Rift S may display with a green tint on AMD Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- AFMF may be inaccurately displayed on select hybrid graphics configurations, particularly in systems where one of the devices lacks support for AFMF. AFMF must be supported on the displaying GPU to be activated.
Known issues:
- Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Starcraft II on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Intermittent driver timeout or application crash may be experienced after playing a mission and changing the in-game resolution while playing HELLDIVERS 2.
- World of Warcraft may experience extended initial loading times with DirectX 12 API on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 6800.
- Shader caching may fail for Windows usernames containing accented characters. [Resolution targeted for 24.3.1]
- FPS performance metric may incorrectly report values while a game is minimized. [Resolution targeted for 24.3.1]
- AMD SmartAccess Video may be incorrectly reported as “Available” on some systems with the Parsec Virtual Display Driver installed.
- Performance drop may be observed while using some DirectML workloads in Topaz AI.
- Audio and video may intermittently become out of sync while recording using the AV1 codec in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition. [Resolution targeted for Q2]
Important notes:
- For users who previously installed an AMD Software preview driver, running AMD Cleanup Utility is recommended before installing this driver.
- Some per-game graphics profiles may have incorrectly been set to HYPR-RX Eco after a driver upgrade. Users experiencing this issue may use the Factory Reset option to return all profiles to default.
Radeon product compatibility:
- Radeon RX 7900/7800/7700/7600 Series Graphics
- Radeon RX 6900/6800/6700/6600/6500/6400 Series Graphics
- Radeon RX 5700/5600/5500/5300 Series Graphics
Mobility Radeon product compatibility:
- AMD Radeon RX 7900M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 7900M/S Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 6800M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 6700M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 6600M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 6500M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 6300M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 5700M/5600M/5500M/5300M Series Graphics
AMD Processors with Radeon Graphics product compatibility (desktop/mobile):
- AMD Ryzen Processors with Radeon Graphics
- AMD Ryzen PRO Processors
- AMD Athlon Processors with Radeon Graphics
- AMD Athlon PRO Processors