Its a bug squashing party
AMD isnt yet ready to roll out a brand new version of its Radeon Software Crimson Edition drivers, but in the meantime, its latest hotfix -- 16.1 -- addresses more than a few issues you might be experiencing.
We count 30 in all, most of which are minor but still annoying. Some of the fixes are generic, like addressing a bug that was causing a slight uptick in power consumption during video playback, while several others are related to specific games like Fallout 4, Just Cause 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Assassins Creed Syndicate, DiRT Rally, Elite: Dangerous, and Star Wars: Battlefront.
Heres the full list, as found in the release notes:
- Fallout 4 – The compass flickers during gameplay on AMD Radeon R9 290 and AMD Radeon R9 295X2
- Elite: Dangerous - Poor performance may be experienced in Supercruise mode under Windows 10
- The driver installer appears to hang at various stages of the install process
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – random frame freezes may be observed during gameplay
- Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC) setting do not apply consistently to all games. In order for FRTC to function properly, Vertical Refresh/VSync must be turned off
- DiRT Rally – A crash may occur when starting a new race with AMD Crossfire and AMD FreeSync enabled
- The AMD Gaming Evolved overlay may cause a black screen, or introduce game stutter
- Assassins Creed Syndicate - Using "Very High" graphics settings in 3x1 Eyefinity mode may cause displays to switch off
- Star Wars: Battlefront - Some flickering may be experienced in shaded areas of the screen while game levels are loading
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Frame freezing during gameplay may be experienced
- Just Cause 3 - The system may hang when task switching on systems with AMD CPUs and GPUs
- Just Cause 3 - Application profile setting added for laptops with Switchable Graphics Fallout 4 - Gameplay may be choppy in AMD FreeSync mode in Ultra mode at 1440p resolution
- [82895] Fallout 4 - Brightness flickering observed with AMD FreeSync enabled on certain displays
- [80254] cnext.exe intermittently crashes during Windows® shutdown
- [81809] A crash may be experienced if an HDMI display is a cloned display device on an HP Envy 15 notebook
- [82485] "Failed to create OpenGL context" error message may appear after installation
- [82842] "Cannot find RadeonSettings.exe" error message may appear during installation
- [83277] "AMD Install Manager has stopped working" error message may appear during installation
- [83484] "Cannot find cncmd.exe" error message may appear during installation
- [82902] Display may flicker on certain laptops after prolonged gameplay with AMD FreeSync enabled
- [81489] Unable to create 4x1 or 2x1 portrait mode SLS with 4K displays
- [82042] Video corruption may appear in Movies & TV app when is VSR enabled and scaling mode is set to "Full panel"
- [82492] Portrait Eyefinity mode may not be configured correctly using Radeon Additional Settings
- [82695] No display on certain laptops when toggling display mode or connecting an HDMI display
- [82900]/[81859] Flickering may be experienced on some monitors when AMD FreeSync is enabled
- [80064] Notifications reverting back to English on non-English systems after reboot
- Misaligned UI may be observed on the Bezel Compensation screen
- Launching a game from the Game Manager may launch on a single display after enabling and disabling AMD CrossFire in a 3x1 AMD Eyefinity setup
- Marginally increased power consumption may be observed during video playback
Despite all the fixes, there are nearly two dozen other known issues that remain unfixed. As with the above, theyre mostly minor, though still frustrating. For example, hitting the Print Screen on a 4K monitor can cause Call of Duty Online to crash -- not cool.
If youve been out of the loop for a bit, AMD recently pulled the plug on its Catalyst Control Center and replaced it with Radeon Software, the first of which is called Crimson Edition. It sort of the equivalent of Nvidias GeForce Experience, but for AMD GPUs. As part of what AMD likens to an OS for graphics drivers, the company vowed release more frequent updates than in the past.
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