AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition: Overlay, App & More for 2017

Bug 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.