Driver Update: AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 Hotfix

AMD has released a new version of Radeon Software Crimson Edition, as the drivers are called today. The drivers are only suitable for the HD 7750 and higher, the HD 8570 and higher, and of course the cards from the R5, R7 and R9 series. As for Windows, only versions 7, 8.1 and 10 are supported. For older cards, now designated as legacy or non-gcn, Catalyst Software Suite version 15.7.1 is the latest stable release and Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.2.1 is considered beta offered. Optimizations have been made to the Doom game in this release that allow for performance gains of up to 35%.

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 Highlights

• Performance increase by up to 35% on AMD Radeon R9 390 series products in Doom vs Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2 (1)

Known Issues

• A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved “In Game Overlay”.
• Users in Quad AMD Crossfire technology configurations may be unable to re-enable AMD Crossfire mode when using the global AMD Crossfire option in the “Gaming” tab and toggling it from on to off.
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt inventory and character pages may exhibit flickering in AMD Crossfire technology mode.
• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare may exhibit stuttering when using AMD FreeSync technology and AMD Crossfire technology in conjunction.
• Installing Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 multiple times on the same machine after rebooting may cause the installer to hang.
• The AMD Crossfire mode options in Radeon Settings may not take effect on Origin or Uplay applications.
• Radeon Settings Additional Settings page may not be available when upgrading to Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 from the current windows update driver. As a work around please clean uninstall all current Radeon Software when upgrading if your system exhibits this issue.
• Some textures may exhibit flickering in Fallout 4 when using AMD Crossfire technology.
• Forza Motorsport 6: Apex may exhibit brightness flickering when using AMD FreeSync technology.
• Frame Rate Target Control gaming profiles may fail to enable for some games.

(1) Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of May 16, 2016 on the AMD Radeon 390 graphics card, on a test system comprising Intel i7 5960X CPU, 16GB DDR4-2666 Mhz system memory, Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver 16.5.2 and Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver 16.5.2.1 and Windows 10 x64 using the game Doom. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. At 1920×1080, Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2 scored 70.29 and Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 scored 95.11, which is 35% faster performance.