AMD has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Radeon Adrenalin 18.3.3 driver is optimized for Sea of Thieves and A Way Out, and adds official support for Vulkan 1.1.
In addition, this driver fixes some intermittent stutter issues in Forza Motorsport 7 during gameplay, fixes flickering or disappearing objects during some gameplay in multi GPU enabled system configurations in Final Fantasy XV, and fixes a system hang on the initial splash screen in multi GPU enabled system configurations in Star Wars: Battlefront 2.
Those interested can download this new driver from here, and you can find its complete changelog below.
AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.3.3 Release Notes
Support For
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- Sea of Thieves™
- A Way Out™
- Vulkan®1.1 Support
- Product is conformant with the Vulkan® 1.1 Specification. Vulkan and the Vulkan logo are registered trademarks of the Khronos Group Inc.
Fixed Issues
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- Forza® Motorsport 7 may experience intermittent stutter during gameplay.
- Some Radeon ReLive recorded clips may experience corruption or audio distortion when played back.
- Final Fantasy® XV may experience flickering or disappearing objects during some gameplay in multi GPU enabled system configurations.
- Star Wars® Battlefront™ 2 may experience a system hang on the initial splash screen in multi GPU enabled system configurations.
Known Issues
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- A random system hang may be experienced after extended periods of use on system configurations using 12 GPU’s for compute workloads.
- Destiny 2™ may experience an application hang in the mission “Heist” on some Radeon GCN1.0 products.
- Destiny 2™ may experience long load times when the application has been open for extended periods of time.
- Radeon Overlay may intermittently fail to enable when toggled in some games.
- FFmpeg application may experience corrupted output for H264 video streams.
- Resizing Radeon Settings may cause the window to intermittently stutter.
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Yo. AMD just announced realtime raytracing for Vulkan.
it will not btw.. dx 12 only… HW lvl
Doubt it , it took dx 11 over 4 years to be relevant.. devs are slow and lazy plus Vulkan is much better than dx 12 TBH… imho dx 12 is a step better than dx 10 , two steps worse than dx 11
DX 11 came out in 2009 and it became standar in 2012 , one could even argue that it became standar in 2011.
I hope devs start making their games look as good as DX in Vulkan , the performance difference is just massive if they truly develop using Vulkan to it’s fullest capacity.
just imagine Ray Tracing ilumination with tessellation , ray traced shadows and ray traced ambient oclussion in a game properly coded with Vulkan in mind, we might actually get photorealism in 60fps in 1080p right with the first gen of Volta GPU’s.
I think we will not see that till amd next gen ( after navi) around 2021/22 in full affect tbh. Look at NV GW today , it never made it to mainstream ( being used by every single game in some capacity ) and it was introduced with Batman Arkham Asylum ( PhysX) that is a long time ago. Given that this is Micro we are talking about I think we will not see “mainstream” Ray Tracing till XBOX 2 which will most likely will use AMD anyhow.
It is good to be optimistic but Mvidia stated that this is all in research stage and game implementation is ways of.