AMD has finally released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the red team, the AMD Adrenalin 25.8.1 driver offers optimal performance in the latest games like Mafia: The Old Country, WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers, and Battlefield 6’s Open Beta.
Moreover, this new driver adds support for Mecha BREAK and the Unreal Engine 5 Update for Valorant.
AMD has added support for AMD FSR 4.0 in a number of games. To be more precise, WUCHANG, Mafia: The Old Country, and Cyberpunk 2077 will now support FSR 4.0. Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, Wreckfest 2, and Lies of P also support AMD FSR 4.0.
From what I can see, there is no support for AMD FSR 4.0 for Battlefield 6. This means that the Open Beta will most likely support AMD FSR 3.0, and not AMD FSR 3.1. This is kind of a bummer. Still, let’s hope that AMD and DICE will work so that they can add support for FSR 4.0 in the final version.
AMD Adrenalin 25.8.1 driver adds support for the AMD Radeon RX 9060. So, if you’re planning to get this GPU, this is the driver you should install.
This new driver also fixes several problems. For example, you should no longer see stutters or slowdowns when watching 4K YouTube videos in Chrome. The driver also fixes random crashes or timeouts in Monster Hunter Wilds when using Radeon Anti-Lag and Instant Replay. Battlefield 2042 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard should now be more stable. And if you play Call of Duty: Warzone on the Season 03 ‘Verdansk’ map, you should notice fewer stutters on some AMD GPUs.
Like always, you can go ahead and download this new driver from AMD’s official website. Below, you can also find its complete changelog.
AMD Adrenalin 25.8.1 Driver Release Notes
New Product Support
- AMD Radeon™ RX 9060
Highlights
- New Game Support
- Mafia: The Old Country
- Mecha BREAK
- WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
- Valorant (Unreal Engine 5 release)
- Battlefield™ 6 Open Beta
- New Game Support for AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4)
- Cyberpunk 2077
- WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
- Mafia: The Old Country
- Arena Breakout: Infinite
- Game of Thrones: Kingsroad
- Wreckfest 2
- Lies of P
- New Game Support
- The Alters
- F1® 25
- Expanded Vulkan Extension Support
- VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16
- VK_EXT_device_generated_commands
- VK_KHR_robustness2
- VK_KHR_depth_clamp_zero_one
- Click HERE for more information about other Vulkan® extension support.
- AMD ROCm™ on WSL for AMD Radeon™ RX 7700 XT
- The following has been added to WSL 2:
- Forward Attention 2 (FA2) decode kernel enablement
- New models
- Deepseek R1 Distilled (7B, 32B, 70B)
- Qwen 2.5 7B
- Find more information on ROCm on Radeon compatibility here and configuration of WSL 2 here.
- Installation instructions for Radeon Software with WSL 2 can be found here.
Fixed Issues and Improvements
- Stutter and lower than expected performance may be observed while playing 4K resolution YouTube videos in Chrome.
- Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Monster Hunter Wilds with Radeon™ Anti-Lag and Instant Replay enabled.
- Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing Battlefield™ 2042.
- Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
- Stutter improved while playing Call of Duty®: Warzone™ Season 03 ‘Verdansk’ map on some AMD Graphics Products
- NOTE: Stutter has been reduced with 25.8.1, and AMD is working with the developer toward a full solution.
- Texture issues may be observed while using Oculus Rift S on RX 5000 and 6000 series graphics products.
- Increased number of parameters supported in Vulkan Llama.cpp on AMD Ryzen™ AI MAX+ products.
Known Issues
- Corruption may appear while playing Mafia: The Old Country on Radeon™ RX 6600 series graphics products.
- Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing The Last of Us Part II on Radeon™ RX 7900 series graphics products.
- Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
- Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Wuchang: Fallen Feathers with FSR 4 enabled on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
- Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing FBC: Firebreak on some AMD Ryzen™ processors such as the Ryzen™ AI 300 series and the Ryzen™ 7000 series.
- Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing NBA 2K26 in MyCareer mode on Radeon™ RX 9070 series graphics products.
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IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME, lol. I saw on another post that it actually whitelists Stellar Blade as well. Pretty hopeful for Mafia this week. I've been grinding out FF7 Rebirth and would really appreciate something grounded and focused after such a humongous open world. I couldnt imagine we get another update before september.
To be fair… there are at least 2 work arounds. The ever loved "Optiscaler" mod and there is now a little program called "AMD GPU Profile Manager" on github (by "OpenSystemTelemetry") that can apparently modify the FSR whitelist to add any application.
ty, I do use optiscaler but haven’t updated my download in a few months. I will have to check out the profile manager.