AMD rilascia la nuova suite software Radeon Software Crimon 16.2 per le sue schede video Radeon e per le GPU integrate nelle APU. Sotto l’aspetto prestazionale questi nuovi driver offrono delle migliori prestazioni in Rise Of The Tomb Raider ed in Ashe of the Singularity. Quest’ultimo titolo è rinomato per sfruttare le future DirectX 12 ed i calcoli in Asynchronous Shaders.
I nuovi Radeon Software Crimson 16.2 introducono nuovi profili CrossFire per XCOM2, Tom Clancy’s The Division; inoltre risolvono diversi problemi di flickering, tearing e stuttering riscontrati dagli utenti in titoli come Fallout 4 e Rise of the Tomb Raider. L’azienda di Sunnyvale infine afferma che tutte le schede video Radeon R9 della serie 300 e Fury offrono un’eccellente esperienza VR, e raggiungono tutte lo standard “VR Recommended” nel test Valve SteamVR Performance Test. La nuova suite driver Radeon Software Crimson 16.2 è compatibile con i sistemi operativi Windows: 7 (SP1), 8.1 e 10, nelle versioni sia a 32 sia a 64 bit.
E’ possibile effettuare il download dei nuovi Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 al seguente link
AMD desktop product family compatibility
- Radeon R9 Fury series
- Radeon R9 Nano series
- Radeon R9 300 series
- Radeon R9 200 series
- Radeon R7 300 series
- Radeon R7 200 series
- Radeon HD 8900 e HD 8700 Series
- Radeon HD 7900 e HD 7700 Series
AMD Mobility Product Family Compatibility
- Radeon R9 M300 series
- Radeon R7 M200 series
- Radeon R7 M300 series
- Radeon R5 M200 series
- Radeon R5 M300 series
- Radeon HD 8900M – HD 8500M Series
- Radeon R9 M200 Series
- Radeon HD 7900M – HD 7700M Series
AMD APU Product Family Compatibility
- APU Kaveri
- APU Godavari
- APU Carrizo
Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 Highlights
- AMD has partnered with Stardock in association with Oxide to bring gamers Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2.0 the first benchmark to release with DirectX® 12 benchmarking capabilities such as Asynchronous Compute, multi-GPU and multi-threaded command buffer Re-ordering. Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 is optimized to support this exciting new release.
- The SteamVR Performance Test: we are pleased to report that our Radeon R9 390, Nano, and Fury series GPUs are all able to achieve ‘VR Recommended’ status, the highest achievable level of experience possible. In addition to that, our affinity multi-GPU feature is already showing significant performance uplift over a single GPU on Radeon cards in the aforementioned benchmark
- Performance and quality improvements for
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™
- Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2
- Crossfire Profiles available for
- The Division
- XCOM 2
Resolved Issues
- A black screen/TDR error may be encountered when booting a system with Intel + AMD graphics and an HDMI monitor connected
- Choppy gameplay may be experienced when both AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ are both enabled
- Display corruption may be observed after keeping system idle for some time
- Fallout 4 – Flickering may be experienced at various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire™ enabled
- Fallout 4 – Foliage/water may ripple/stutter when game is launched in High/Ultra settings mode
- Fallout 4 – Screen tearing in systems with both AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled if game is left idle for a short period of time
- Fallout 4 – Thumbnails may flicker or disappear while scrolling the Perk levels page
- Far Cry 4 – Stuttering may be observed when launching the game with AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled
- FRTC options are displayed on some unsupported laptop configurations with Intel CPU’s and AMD GPU’s
- Radeon Settings may sometimes fails to launch with a “Context Creation Error” message
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – Corruption can be observed at some locations during gameplay
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – Flickering may be experienced at various game locations when the game is left idle in AMD Crossfire™ mode under Windows 7
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – Game may intermittently crash or hang when launched with very high settings and AA is set to SMAA at 4K resolution
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – Lara Croft’s hair may flicker in some locations if the Esc key is pressed
- Rise of Tomb Raider™ – A TDR error may be observed with some AMD Radeon 300 Series products after launching the “Geothermal Valley” mission
- The AMD Overdrive™ memory clock slider does not show original clock values if memory speeds are overclocked
- World of Warcraft runs extremely slowly in quad crossfire at high resolutions
Known Issues
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A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved “In Game Overlay”
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Star Wars™: Battlefront – Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
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Cannot enable AMD Crossfire with some dual GPU AMD Radeon HD 59xx and HD 79xx series products
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Fallout 4 – In game stutter may be experienced if the game is launched with AMD Crossfire enabled
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XCOM 2 – Flickering textures may be experienced at various game locations
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Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – The game may randomly crash on launch if Tessellation is enabled
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Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption