The press drivers we used in our recent Dx12 benchmark have been officially released to the public. AMD's new 16.2 beta drivers include Dx12 optimizations that coincide with the Ashes of Singularity Version 2 Dx12 Benchmark; we strongly recommend these drivers for AMD users hoping to test their systems with Dx12.
AMD's 16.2 Beta drivers make a number of important updates for graphics devices. Performance and “quality improvements” have been made for Rise of the Tomb Raider and CrossFire configurations running The Division or XCOM 2. Additional issue resolutions have been submitted for black screens, “choppy gameplay” and display corruption.
The new drivers are available here.
Full list of changes:
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
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"
Star Wars™: Battlefront - Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
Cannot enable AMD Crossfire with some dual GPU AMD Radeon HD 59xx and HD 79xx series products
Fallout 4 - In game stutter may be experienced if the game is launched with AMD Crossfire enabled
XCOM 2 - Flickering textures may be experienced at various game locations
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - The game may randomly crash on launch if Tessellation is enabled
Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption
- Steve "Lelldorianx" Burke.