Driver Update: AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.2

AMD has released a new version of its Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 2020 drivers. The drivers are only suitable for the HD 7730(M) and higher, the HD 8570 and higher, and the R5, R7, R9 and RX series cards. The drivers are only offered for Windows 7 and 10 and there are no more 32-bit drivers available. New in the 2020 edition includes Radeon Boost, a technology that uses dynamic resolution scaling to achieve better frame rates. Version 20.11.2 includes support for the new but unavailable Radeon RX 6800 and the Shadowlands expansion of World of Warcraft.

Support For

• Radeon RX 6800 Series
• World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

Added Vulkan Support

• VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate
  • This extension provides the ability to change the shading rate per fragment. This extension allows for multiple pixels to be shaded via a single fragment shader invocation as opposed to the normal rate of one invocation per pixel.

Fixed Issues

• Enabling Record Desktop and Instant Replay may cause hitching or stutter during fullscreen video playback on some system configurations.
• Custom fan settings may not retain after waking from sleep on Radeon RX 500 series graphics products.
• Graphical glitching may occur on Radeon RX 500 series graphics products when at idle or at desktop with multiple high refresh rate Radeon FreeSync displays connected.
• Disabling performance metrics overlay while in game can sometimes cause frame freeze or stuttering.
• Lower than expected performance may be experienced on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products in Xuan-Yuan Sword VII.
• Mouse corruption may be experienced when changing graphics options to Vulkan API in Serious Sam 4.
• Corruption may be visible on some surfaces in Far Cry Primal on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products.

Known Issues

• Brightness flickering may intermittently occur in some games when Radeon FreeSync is enabled, and the game is set to use borderless fullscreen.
• Metro Exodus, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Battlefield V, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War may experience intermittent application crashes with DirectX Raytracing enabled.
• Anisotropic Filtering in Radeon Software graphics settings is not taking effect in DirexctX9 applications on RDNA graphics products.
• Crysis Remastered may experience corruption on character models on Radeon RX 6800 Series graphics products.
• World of Warcraft: Shadowlands may fail to launch when DirectX12 API is selected on Windows7 system configurations.
• Some games may experience stuttering when set to borderless fullscreen and an extended display is connected running the Netflix windows store application on RDNA graphics products.
• Radeon recording and streaming features may fail to enable on AMD Radeon HD 7800 series graphics products.
• Screen space reflections may appear with flickering corruption in Battlefield V on RDNA graphics products.
• Modifying the HDMI Scaling slider may cause FPS to become locked to 30.
• Performance Metrics Overlay and the Performance Tuning tab incorrectly report higher than expected idle clock speeds on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products. Performance and power consumption are not impacted by this incorrect reporting.
• Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.