Driver Update: AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.3.1

AMD has released a new update to its Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition drivers. The drivers are only suitable for the HD 7750 and above, the HD 8570 and above, and the R5, R7, R9 and RX series cards. As for Windows, only versions 7 and 10 are supported. For people using Windows 8.1, version 17.7.1 the latest version. Drivers for the first generation of Windows 8 are no longer made at all. For older cards, now labeled as legacy or non-gcn, Catalyst Software Suite version 15.7.1 is the latest stable release.

Adrenalin Edition is the successor to Crimson ReLive Edition and adds, among other things, a Connect tab, which allows streaming to social media with easy editing options, settings of the graphics card can be adjusted without leaving a game through an overlay and the settings can be can also be customized via a mobile app. The following improvements have been made in this update:

Support For

• Final Fantasy XV
• Warhammer: Vermintide II
• DOTA 2
  • Up to 6% faster FPS using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.3.1 on the Radeon RX 580 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 17.12.1 at 3840×2160 (1440p).

Fixed Issues

• Radeon Chill hotkey may fail to reset when Radeon Settings is restored to defaults.
• Sea of ​​Thieves may experience an intermittent application hang or crash during gameplay.
• Middle-earth: Shadow of War may experience texture flickering on trees or hills when using multi GPU enabled system configurations.
• World of Tanks may experience color corruption when changing some game settings in multi GPU enabled system configurations.

Known Issues

• A random system hang may be experienced after extended periods of use on system configurations using 12 GPUs for compute workloads.
• Destiny 2 may experience an application hang in the mission “Heist” on some Radeon GCN1.0 products.
• Destiny 2 may experience long load times when the application has been open for long periods of time.
• Radeon Overlay may intermittently fail to enable when toggled in some games.
• FFmpeg application may experience corrupted output for H264 video streams.
• Resizing Radeon Settings may cause the window to intermittently stutter.
• Final Fantasy XV may experience minor stutter during some particle effects. A workaround is to disable the “Geomapping” setting in game.