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[RazorbackDB]

16.6.1 hotfix

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-art...are-crimson-edition-16.6.1-release-notes.aspx

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.1 Highlights

Support for:
Mirror's Edge Catalyst™
Paragon™

New AMD Crossfire profile available for:
Dark Souls III™

Fixed Issues

Display flickering or corruption may be experienced when playing videos in a web browser.
DiRT Rally™ may experience poor performance on some tracks with rainy/night scenes.
The HDMI® display scaling options in Radeon Settings may be missing when the display is set to an interlaced resolution.
The AMD Crossfire™ technology mode options in Radeon Settings may not take effect on Origin or Uplay applications.
Fallout™ 4 may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ technology mode for some game textures.
Flickering on Oculus Rift™ headsets may be experienced when multiple displays are connected with differing resolutions.
Radeon Settings additional settings page may fail to open after performing a Windows Update and then installing the latest Radeon Software Crimson Edition.

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".
Battlefield™ 4 may experience crashes when using Mantle. As a work around users are suggested to switch to DirectX®11.
Doom™ some game levels may experience shimmering textures.
The Division™ may hang when using Quad AMD Crossfire™ technology. As a workaround users are recommended to disable AMD Crossfire™ technology mode.
Radeon Settings gaming profile options for Uplay applications may not take effect.
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.
On some AMD XConnect™ technology external GPU enclosures, a TDR may be observed when the dGPU is set to primary display and the laptop display is set to extended display with video playback.
Crashes when using GL_ARB_bindless_texture with AMD drivers.

Links to DDU and AMD Clean Uninstall Utility for convenience.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx

 

[derFeef]

Oh hello, waiting if it's legit. What's the source?
edit: btw. it's Crimson

 

[Joyful]

yeah i was just on guru3d on a lark and read about this

im assuming someone grabbed this before amd pulled it?

 

[RazorbackDB]

Oh hello, waiting if it's legit. What's the source?
edit: btw. it's Crimson

Oh, if some mod can correct it I'll appreciate it.

I'm not clear about the source, the link got shared on guru3d and people are installing it without problems it seems.

This is it as sources go

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5194805&postcount=383

 

[Tesseract]

need fallout 3 numbers goobers

 

[TheMoon]

Fun fact: my mouth has a hard time trying to say "crinsom" out loud lol

 

[Corpsepyre]

Can someone explain the Overdrive bit a little more? It acts as overclocking without actually overclocking?

 

[NumberThree]

Can someone explain the Overdrive bit a little more? It acts as overclocking without actually overclocking?

No it's just overclocking.

 

[RazorbackDB]

Can someone explain the Overdrive bit a little more? It acts as overclocking without actually overclocking?

Eh no? It's just overclocking, this driver brings the ability to save specific overdrive settings with a game profile.

 

[tuxfool]

Can someone explain the Overdrive bit a little more? It acts as overclocking without actually overclocking?

It is what they have called their overclocking settings for a while now.

 

[stryke]

The UI is clean, but it kinda feels like it was made for a touch screen...

 

[derFeef]

Sooo any news on the background recording (shadowplay) front? Is it still Raptr?

 

[SpotAnime]

Sooo any news on the background recording (shadowplay) front? Is it still Raptr?

Yep. Background recording is not part of the initial release of the Crimson drivers.

 

[Burny]

Did they do something about the supercruise stutter in Elite Dangerous?

[59475] Elite: Dangerous - poor performance may be experienced in SuperCruise mode under Windows® 10

It's a bit embarassing when my 2012 media laptop with a Geforce GT 650M keeps nearly 60fps while a mid range gaming rig with a R9 280X gradually degrades to 20fps. >.<

 

[Turin Turambar]

I had problems with the old CCC since I upgraded to Windows 10, so this is pretty nice for me.

It loads faster, too.

But don't expect miracles with these drivers. You aren't going to unlock a secret processor with this

 

[Irobot82]

WCCFTech posted a performance analysis of the new drivers. It's showing increased FPS. Woot!

 

[RazorbackDB]

Officially out now, updated the op with release notes and official link.

 

[derFeef]

WCCFTech posted a performance analysis of the new drivers. It's showing increased FPS. Woot!

Not bad at all!
Holy crap at the BO3 improvements.

 

[Nyteshade517]

just downloaded the new Crimson update so haven't had time to really do anything with it...but on looks alone it's far better than Catalyst ever was...really slick

 

[Seronei]

No more 6000 series support?

 

[Irobot82]

DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 support:
Provides full support for DisplayPort to HDMI® 2.0 connections via certified dongles.

Welp, this may fix everyone who was QQ'ing about no HDMI 2.0 support for Fury. Now we need the testing.

 

[Adry9]

Looking good, about 3fps avg improved in most games.

 

[Caayn]

WCCFTech posted a performance analysis of the new drivers. It's showing increased FPS. Woot!

Missing the Fury X in those benchmarks.

 

[Nikodemos]

No more 6000 series support?

They've announced since a year agothey were going to end support for their VLIW microarch cards.

 

[LordOcidax]

WCCFTech posted a performance analysis of the new drivers. It's showing increased FPS. Woot!

damn... Is like buying a new gpu overall.

 

[The-Bean]

"Shader Cache" sounds interesting. I wonder if this will help with Fallout 4 stutter and load times (HDD)?

 

[derFeef]

"Shader Cache" sounds interesting. I wonder if this will help with Fallout 4 stutter and load times (HDD)?

Only availabe with 3 games atm.
Black Ops 3
Battlefront
Bioshock Infinite

But it helps: http://www.computerbase.de/2015-11/amd-treiber-crimson-test/4/
Hopefully more profiles will follow.

 

[Nyteshade517]

Frame Rate Target Control is now a setting you can handle per game in that game's "profile"

 

[RazorbackDB]

Just installed it and lol the CCC is still there for additional Display Settings, but also VSR works over the d-sub connection on my second display.

edit: Just tried Witcher 3 quickly and it seems smoother MSI AB overlay wasn't working for some reason.

 

[k4n3]

just installed it crossfire is finally working for me in battlefront 2x 290x 160 fps at 1080p think its time to upgrade to 1440p once i find a good one with freesync and 144hz ips

 

[Robaperas]

Just installed them, the UI is really pretty looks really slick, and I like that it detects all my games and I can edit settings and launch them directly through the program. And it opens faster than CCC, a LOT faster.

 

[Transistor]

The DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 is confusing. I didn't think you could go from HDMI to DP without an active converter.

 

[Serrato]

Did they do something about the supercruise stutter in Elite Dangerous?

[59475] Elite: Dangerous - poor performance may be experienced in SuperCruise mode under Windows® 10

It's a bit embarassing when my 2012 media laptop with a Geforce GT 650M keeps nearly 60fps while a mid range gaming rig with a R9 280X gradually degrades to 20fps. >.<

Don't tell me about it.

 

[Irobot82]

The DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 is confusing. I didn't think you could go from HDMI to DP without an active converter.

I know @Thracks was talking about this on twitter back when Fury dropped. I think they have some certified adapters that they "guarantee" will work. Or something like that. Hopefully this is good news and works well.

 

[SmartBase]

Still no mention of a Crossfire profile for Elite: Dangerous, I guess twelve months isn't long enough for AMD to come up with one.

 

[Seronei]

They've announced since a year agothey were going to end support for their VLIW microarch cards.

What a shame, I had hoped my 6950 would last me until the die shrink. Looking unlikely now with no support and game performance getting worse and worse.

 

[Nikodemos]

What a shame, I had hoped my 6950 would last me until the die shrink. Looking unlikely now with no support and game performance getting worse and worse.

Well to be fair it's a nearly 5-year old architecture at this point.

Also wow @ those Fury improvements. It's literally like buying a brand new card.

 

[Transistor]

I know @Thracks was talking about this on twitter back when Fury dropped. I think they have some certified adapters that they "guarantee" will work. Or something like that. Hopefully this is good news and works well.

But an adapter shouldn't need "support". Thats the point of the adapter. The way this sounds is like you can just plug up an HDMI to DisplayPort cable and get 4K. I wonder if they had this planned from the beginning and could be a reason behind their mind boggling exemption of HDMI 2.0 for their cards.

Anyone with a Fury care able to test that?

 

[HideyoshiJP]

Does this still have multi-display profiles? Any noticable missing advanced settings? I always get nwrvous when companies tout 'simpler' UIs these days.

 

[zephervack]

So Frame Pacing and Frame rate target control are not available for R9 290x right ?

 

[Corpsepyre]

A little off topic, but do you uninstall your previous drivers before upgrading to the new ones? Does it matter?

 

[DooMAGE]

Amazing news, let's see if my R9 390 will like.

 

[zephervack]

Does this still have multi-display profiles? Any noticable missing advanced settings? I always get nwrvous when companies tout 'simpler' UIs these days.

I need to know this aswell before I install it, also, does it have advanced Eyefinity settings like mixed resolution multi display support? I guess I can just downgrade if they dont have it.

 

[Leafhopper]

A little off topic, but do you uninstall your previous drivers before upgrading to the new ones? Does it matter?

In my case it uninstalled CCC and other older drivers.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Am I missing something here?

I can't set the refresh rate per monitor anymore with that Crimson GUI. >.>

 

[Rushersauce]

Am I missing something here?

I can't set the refresh rate per monitor anymore with that Crimson GUI. >.>

There is an "other options" option that brings the old CCC interface with a few more options, lol.

 

[The-Bean]

A little off topic, but do you uninstall your previous drivers before upgrading to the new ones? Does it matter?

I don't think you need to but a few years ago I had some issues after upgrading drivers. After a a fresh install it was fine, so ever since I've done so and haven't had a single issue. Display Driver Uninstaller is super helpful.

 

[Nikodemos]

But an adapter shouldn't need "support". Thats the point of the adapter.

Unfortunately, it doesn't really work that way, since HDMI uses hardware-enforced DRM. It's the reason several of those cheap Chinese cloned HDMI cables don't work (either properly or at all).

 

[Hari Seldon]

A little off topic, but do you uninstall your previous drivers before upgrading to the new ones? Does it matter?

You souldn't have to. Back in the day you would definitely have to but not really anymore unless you see problems afterwords.

 

[IceIpor]

What a shame, I had hoped my 6950 would last me until the die shrink. Looking unlikely now with no support and game performance getting worse and worse.

Well, if it's any consolation, it looks like they've released one final driver for the 5000/6000 series.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows 10 - 64