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AMD Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1 driver released with support for AFMF 2.1 and FSR 4.0

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AMD has released a new beta/optional driver for its graphics cards. According to the red team, the AMD Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1 Driver adds official support for its RX 9000 series GPUs. So, if you’ve purchased an RX 9070 or RX 9070XT, this is the driver you’ll have to use.

Going into more details, the AMD Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1 Driver adds support for AMD FSR 4.0 and AFMF 2.1. There is also a new version of AMD Radeon Image Sharpening 2. This new version aims to provide stronger, more responsive sharpening in more use cases. AMD Radeon Image Sharpening 2 can also now apply sharpening to games, videos or across the entire desktop.

Another new feature is AMD Install Manager. AMD Install Manager is a new application that easily manages your AMD specific software installations. It supports the installation of our new AMD Chat and the latest AMD Graphics and Chipset drivers. Users will now have an option to “Automatically keep AMD Software up to date”, allowing the AMD Install Manager to update their installed drivers and software on-the-fly.

It’s also worth noting that this new driver adds support for FragPunk and Split Fiction. Moreover, it brings some AI improvements on the AMD Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs. For example, it brings up to 70% improvement on Adobe Lightroom AI enhance detail. Plus, there is up to 40% improvement with Topaz Photo AI subtest.

Finally, the driver expands the support for HYPR-RX. The new games that were added to it are Farming Simulator 25, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl and Silent Hill 2.

You can download this new driver from AMD’s official website. Below you can also find its complete changelog.

AMD Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1 Driver Release Notes

New Features

  • AMD Fidelity™ FX Super Resolution 4 (AMD FSR 4)
    • Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
    • AMD FSR 4 features a new upgrade toggle in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ that automatically upgrades supported games that have built-in AMD FSR 3.1 support to use the new ML-based AMD FSR 4 upscaling algorithm.
    • AMD FSR 4 will be available for over 30 games on Radeon™ RX 9070 Series Graphics Cards. For more information, click HERE.
  • AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1
    • Improved frame generation image quality with reduced ghosting and better temporal tracking.
    • Support for AMD Radeon™ RX 6000, 7000, 9070 series graphics cards and AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series processors
  • AI Enhanced Features in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ 
    • Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
    • AMD Chat
      • AMD Chat is a GPU-accelerated, local offline chatbot with text and image generation capabilities.
      • AMD Chat can answer common questions about a user’s AMD hardware and enable key features in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™.
    • AMD Image Inspector
      • AMD Image Inspector leverages AI to help AMD accelerate game quality improvements by capturing text and image diagnostic data.
  • AMD Install Manager 
    • AMD Install Manager is a new application that easily manages your AMD specific software installations.
    • AMD Install Manager supports the installation of our new AMD Chat and the latest AMD Graphics and Chipset drivers.
    • Users now have an option to “Automatically keep AMD Software up to date”, allowing the AMD Install Manager to update their installed drivers and software on-the-fly.
  • AMD Radeon™ Image Sharpening 2
    • Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
    •  Now updated to provide stronger, more responsive sharpening in more use cases.
    • AMD Radeon™ Image Sharpening 2 can now apply sharpening to games, videos or across the entire desktop.

Other Highlights

  • New Game Support
    • FragPunk
    • Split Fiction
  • AMD ROCm™ on WSL for AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series 
    • Official support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) enables users with supported hardware to run workloads with AMD ROCm™ software on a Windows system, eliminating the need for dual boot set ups.
    • The following has been added to WSL 2:
      • Official support for Llama3 8B (via vLLM) and Stable Diffusion 3 models.
      • Support for Hugging Face transformers.
      • Support for Ubuntu 24.04.
    • Find more information on ROCm on Radeon compatibility here and configuration of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) here.
  •  AI Performance Improvements on AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series
    • Performance improvements to the following use cases:
      • Up to 70% improvement on Adobe Lightroom AI enhance detail.
      • Up to 13% improvement on Adobe Lightroom Denoise.
      • Up to 40% improvement with Topaz Photo AI subtest.
      • Up to 10% improvement on DaVinci resolve AI cases.
  • Developer Updates
    • New AMD machine-readable GPU Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) specifications updated to support AMD RDNA™ 4 and RDNA™ 3.5 architecture graphics cards. Learn more.
    • New open-source AMD Advanced Interactive Streaming (AIS) SDK release, designed from the ground up to transform streaming from passive viewing into an immersive experience and AMD Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK updates.
    • AMD Radeon™ Developer Tool Suite (RDTS) update with support for AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics cards coming soon. The RDTS includes the recently released Driver Experiments tool that enables low-level control over the behavior of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ for developers. Stay tuned to GPUOpen news for the latest news for developers.
  • Expanded HYPR-RX Support 
    • HYPR-Tune support allows HYPR-RX to enable in-game technologies like AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution and AMD Radeon ™ Anti-Lag 2.
    • Support has been added to automatically configure AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution with frame generation in:
      • Farming Simulator 25
      • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
      • Silent Hill 2
  • Expanded Vulkan Extension Support
  • Fixed Issues and Improvements 
    • HEVC encoding may not work as expected while using OBS Studio with Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting.
    • Intermittent driver timeout or crash may be observed while playing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370.)
    • Lower than expected performance may be observed in Delta Force on Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products.
    • Intermittent stutter may be observed while playing Marvel Rivals when AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 frame generation is enabled.

Known Issues

  • Intermittent crash of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ may be observed while playing Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 or Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart with AMD Image Inspector enabled. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to disable AMD Image Inspector as a temporary workaround.
  • Lower than expected performance may be observed when using YouTube on the Microsoft Edge web browser immediately after a driver install. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to restart Microsoft Edge and relaunch YouTube as a temporary workaround.
  • 3rd party tools that rely on our ADL SDK for detecting ROPs count will incorrectly report 64 ROPs, and we are looking to address this in a driver update post launch.
  • Incorrect gamma is exhibited while playing Counter-Strike 2 and using MSAA x8 on Radeon™ RX 9070 series graphics products.
  • AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ may not accurately report AMD FSR 4 enablement for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
  • Lower than expected performance may be observed while playing Assetto Corsa Competizione on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
  • Intermittent application crash may be observed in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle when settings are set to “Very Ultra” quality and Path Tracing is enabled. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to use the default Ray Tracing settings as a temporary workaround.
  • After using the AMD Cleanup Utility for Windows®, the AMD Bug Report Tool may appear intermittently during a new driver install on AMD Ryzen™ 7000 and above series processors paired with AMD Graphics Products.
  • After completing a driver upgrade on certain laptops, users may experience intermittent failures for the integrated camera to start. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to use the AMD Cleanup Utility for Windows® and use our previous recommended driver, available here.
  • Limitations for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) support can be found here.