AMD has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 increases performance by up to 35% on AMD Radeon R9 390 series products in Doom. In other words, this is a must-have driver for those with AMD GPUs.
You can download this new AMD driver from here.
And here are the release notes for the AMD Radeon Software 16.5.2 driver:
Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 Highlights
- Performance increase by up to 35% on AMD Radeon R9 390 series products in Doom™ versus Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2
Known Issues
- A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved “In Game Overlay”.
- Users in Quad AMD Crossfire technology configurations may be unable to re-enable AMD Crossfire mode when using the global AMD Crossfire option in the “Gaming” tab and toggling it from on to off.
- The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt inventory and character pages may exhibit flickering in AMD Crossfire technology mode.
- Call of Duty™: Advanced Warfare may exhibit stuttering when using AMD FreeSync™ technology and AMD Crossfire technology in conjunction.
- Installing Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 multiple times on the same machine after rebooting may cause the installer to hang.
- The AMD Crossfire mode options in Radeon Settings may not take effect on Origin or Uplay applications.
- Radeon Settings Additional Settings page may not be available when upgrading to Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 from the current windows update driver. As a work around please clean uninstall all current Radeon Software when upgrading if your system exhibits this issue.
- Some textures may exhibit flickering in Fallout™ 4 when using AMD Crossfire technology.
- Forza Motorsport 6: Apex™ may exhibit brightness flickering when using AMD FreeSync™ technology.
- Frame Rate Target Control gaming profiles may fail to enable for some games.
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They’re getting much better about quicker releases. Good news
Seriously just take a look at that list of known issues, that is appalling.
At least they are honest about it, whenever I have problems with the Nvidia drivers, I have to research quite a lot. And you don’t know if they’ve fixed the issue with their new driver version, since they avoid addressing them in the changelog.
I still face some random flickering in Just Cause 3 with my 980 and that’s nowhere mentioned in Nvidia driver notes so yeah.
No need to come in and defend AMD like you always do though. Take random issue you have, apply it as defence. You’re a toxic NVIDIA customer, sooner you move to AMD the better.
If I don’t have to put up with your BS, then I will gladly move to AMD, just as long as you stay out of my sight, you NVidia corporate slave.
I am just a customer who thinks rationally and speak truth and I wasn’t defending AMD here, I just said that I still face some texture flickering in Just Cause 3, I can actually make a video for you to show that but I think that will be a wasted effort as your only aim is to blindly defend Nvidia. I have seen you doing this everywhere, including Youtube as well, guess it’s too hard for you to to admit the fact that the company whose hardware you own can also go wrong.
The sooner you grow up the better.
Oh great, another AMD troll bashing Nvidia. Nvidia always including Known Issues / Fixed Issues in “Game Ready Driver Release Notes” pdf. But looks like you are incapable to read them.
But they didn’t include the “it may kill you PC” in there, right?
Good thing Nvidia has no issues.
Oh they do but not to this extent.
lol k bro
Count the nvidia knows issues list and than come back and type this exact comment..
I have the amount wasn’t the issue it was the number of games and possibly 2 large gaming portals that were most striking. Along with the numerous crossfire issues etc.
Besides after looking at Nvidias Win 10 issues list this seems even worse.
Tiago Sousa – id software:
“Looks like ultra settings ( beta was a mix of medium ), particularly shadows ( and couple other things ) – AMD working on it”
Apparently, the OpenGL 4.3 showing on AMD GPUs isn’t an issue.
“It’s using 4.3 with extensions from 4.4 and 4.5. There is no advantage in initializing a 4.5 context.”
oh god, i’m waiting the 1070 so much so i can get rid of this crappy 280x… i mean, decend card, but the AMD drivers are CRAP, so it’s useless anyway…
It’s not your fault that you are have an inferior mental fortitude, it really isn’t.
Ok, that statement was BS when AMD’s drivers were just good enough but now? Now it’s even bigger BS.
Attach this video to show the vast improvement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWaE-3Aseg