AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition: Overlay, App & More for 2017
by Nate Oh on December 12, 2017 9:00 AM ESTBug Fixes & Issues in Radeon Software Adrenalin 17.12.1
As a quick note, AMD has had two (quite verbosely-named) Windows 10 Fall Creators Update beta drivers that coexisted with other driver branches. It was made clear that Adrenalin Edition 17.12.1 fully supports Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, which is actually the recommended version for Adrenalin. Meanwhile, 17.11.1 is the most recent WHQL certified driver for the Fall Creators Update. So both 17.12.1 and 17.11.1 supersede the previous beta drivers.
With the exception of the newly launched Ryzen Mobile processors, Adrenalin Edition supports consumer APUs. And as a reminder, the Radeon RX Vega, RX 500, RX 400, R9 Fury, and Pro Duo series are only supported by Adrenalin on 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows 10.
Moving on to the list of resolved issues, the very first one should bring much holiday cheer to many an eSports fan: the longstanding Overwatch bug has been fixed. Furthermore, several video game bugs and particular Netflix playback stuttering have also been corrected.
The full list of resolved issues is as follows:
- Overwatch may experience a random or intermittent hang on some system configurations.
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege may experience an application hang when breaching walls with grenades or explosives.
- Assassin's Creed: Origins may experience bright or saturated lighting in cave missions.
- Mass Effect Andromeda may have issues enabling HDR10 on an HDR capable display.
- Forza Horizon 3 may experience corruption on rocks or foliage during gameplay.
- Halo Wars 2 may experience a crash on game launch.
- Netflix playback in a browser or via UWP application may experience stutter.
- After recording with ReLive, GPU usage and clocks may remain in high states.
- Enabling HBCC on mGPU RX Vega configurations may cause the secondary graphics card to be hidden in Radeon Settings until reboot.
- Resizing the Radeon Settings window may cause the UI to restart or hang with HBCC enabled.
As for the documented open issues, only three pertain to new features introduced by Adrenalin. Of them, the RX Vega profile loading failure is arguably the only non-niche and most impactful bug.
Known Issues
- [New Adrenalin Feature] Performance Metrics Overlay may hang if enabled when cycling display power off and on.
- [New Adrenalin Feature] Trimming videos may fail to create a thumbnail if the video contains non-English characters.
- [New Adrenalin Feature] Wattman may intermittently fail to load profiles for RX Vega on the global Wattman page.
- Upgrading Radeon Software with mGPU RX Vega configurations on X99 chipsets may cause system instability after reboot.
- Radeon Settings may experience a hang when enabling CrossFire with three or more graphics products.
- 3x1 display configurations may experience instability during Eyefinity creation or during gaming.
- The “Reset” function in Radeon Settings for Display, ReLive, and Video may not work as intended when using Radeon Settings in certain regional languages.
- Rise of the Tomb Raider may experience an intermittent application hang during gameplay.
- A random system hang may be experienced after extended periods of use on system configurations using 12 GPUs for compute workloads.
- The GPU Workload feature may cause a system hang when switching to Compute while CrossFire is enabled; a workaround is to disable CrossFire before switching the toggle to Compute workloads.
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StevoLincolnite - Wednesday, December 13, 2017 - link
I care about watts... Because although I live in a 1st world country... My electricity prices are trending towards 50' cents per KWH.With that... AMD ain't all bad as far as power consumption goes, VEGA for instance if you underclock and undervolt her, she can sip on the power... Still. I'll wait to upgrade from my Polaris card and hope Navi brings the goods next year.
Duckeenie - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link
"People like you care about Watts like you live in a 3rd world country."Donald Trump is broadening his horizons it seems, no longer is he content with trolling twitter.
Hurr Durr - Wednesday, December 13, 2017 - link
If you`re triggered by what Trump says, you deserve it all.mapesdhs - Thursday, December 14, 2017 - link
MAGA! 8)sonny73n - Wednesday, December 13, 2017 - link
Only idiots would not care about Watts. Less Watts -> less heat -> less than noise -> better cooling -> better overclocking.Only idiots would not want greater efficiency.
BigCapitalist - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link
Also, Nvidia offers a rendering software for like $300 a year called Nvidia IRAY.AND offer ProRenderer for FREE, and guess what? It works with Nvidia GPUs unlike Nvidia not working with AMD GPUs.
That's the kind of future we get with Nvidia, all they care about is money. A real business with a good business model cares about the consumer as well.
mapesdhs - Thursday, December 14, 2017 - link
The consumer is free not to buy their products. Your name is ironic. Capitalism is simply don't steal and keep your word, the basic essence of free trade. "care" is an emotional concept, that's the sort of thing inferred by the customer, not implied by the seller. If NV is making pots, good, means they've found a market. Rule one of invention: identify a need.JasonMZW20 - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link
"As for Vega, it's terrible in perf per W, perf per mm2 and much worse in perf per cost(note that cost and price are 2 different things). Vega 64 and 56 are a disaster for gaming and you are the one that lacks a clue, or objectivity."This just shows that you have never used one. I have 2 and they're both running within 200W* undervolted (Superposition can push this up to 250W due to the number of triangles it renders, but only if you raise the power limit). GTX 1080 is 180W, more if OC'd obviously.
*165-212W in Wolfenstein 2 and Ashes of the Singularity, 4k60p. 1565MHz avg. @ 1.006-1.025v, 1100MHz HBM.
If you want to brute force Vega, you obviously can with power limit increases and more voltage. I've found that that isn't worth it, unless you're going for outright performance or bragging rights in benches. Vega will easily pull over 300W (hit 306-326W in Superposition 4k optimized with auto voltages and +50% power limit), but it doesn't tend to gain a huge amount of performance. I'm more interested in its efficiency, and have been surprised by it. I'm not easily swayed by internet opinion though.
JasonMZW20 - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link
2 Vega64s*Cellar Door - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link
"this is the beginning of the end for PC gaming" - you sound like some doomsday evangelist, the kind that is proven wrong repeatedly... every year.Your statements are two-part.
a)something obvious that most can nod to
b)absurd speculation to draw attention(probably a endorphin driven loop when you get replies)
This site really needs an upvote system to weed out this sort of behavior.