AMD vient de mettre en ligne une nouvelle version de ses pilotes graphique Radeon Software Crimson. Estampillés, Radeon Software Crimson 16.3 Hotfix, ils apportent diverses améliorations pour les jeux Rise of the Tomb Raider et Gears of War Ultimate Edition.
Selon le constructeur, ces drivers s’accompagnent d’une mise à jour des profils Crossfire du titre Hitman et de corrections pour XCOM 2 concernant l’apparition de scintillement à divers endroits. A cela s’ajoute d’autres correctifs. Ils visent Rise of the Tomb Raider (plantage lors du lancement avec l’activation de la Tesselation) ou encore le benchmark Ashes of the Singularity 2.0 capable désormais de prendre en charge le DirectFlip et Gears of War Ultimate Edition (gels aléatoires).
A tout ceci, AMD ajouter de nouvelles fonctionnalités comme le Per-Game Display Scaling ou encore un indicateur d’état du Crossfire. La liste complète des changements est disponible en fin d’article.
En ce qui concerne la compatibilité, ces Radeon Software Crimson 16.3 Hotfix sont proposés pour les environnements Windows 7, 8.1 et 10 dans leur version 32 ou 64-bit.
Changelog
Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 Highlights
Updated Crossfire Profiles available for
- Hitman™
- The Park
Support for
- Hitman™
Performance and Quality improvements for
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™(2)
- Up to 16% on AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury X Series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.
- Gears of War Ultimate Edition(3)
- Up to 60% on AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury X series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1
- Up to 44% on AMD Radeon™ R9 380 series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1
Vulkan™ Support(1): Vulkan™ is the successor to OpenGL and a descendant of AMD’s Mantle. Vulkan™ is a powerful “low-overhead” graphics API that gives software developers deep control over the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of Radeon™ GPUs and multi-core CPUs. More information on Vulkan™ can be found at https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/.
Per-Game Display Scaling: A new feature introduced in Radeon™ Settings that allows per game Display Scaling to be set within the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab under “Profile Options”.
Language Menu: A new feature introduced in Radeon™ Settings that allows the end user to select their preferred language from a drop down menu under the “Preferences -> Language” tab.
Two Display Eyefinity: Two Display Eyefinity is now an available option under the Eyefinity tab in Radeon™ Settings.
AMD Crossfire™ Status Indicator: A new feature in Radeon™ Settings that allows users to toggle an AMD Crossfire™ status indicator on their screen when running in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
Updated Social Links: New Social links are now available for Radeon™ Settings home page and have also updated based on geographical region.
Power Efficiency Toggle: A new feature introduced in the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab for select AMD Radeon™ 300 series and AMD Radeon™ Fury X available under “Global Options”. This allows the user to disable some power efficiency optimizations.
AMD XConnect™ technology: This driver provides initial support for external GPU enclosures configured with Radeon™ R9 300 Series GPUs are now supported over Thunderbolt™ 3 (USB-C) connections. AMD XConnect™ technology additionally provides plug’n’play support and an integrated management interface. Base system must have BIOS support for external GPUs (e.g. Razer Blade Stealth).
Resolved Issues
- Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption (Fixed with new Power Efficiency feature toggled to off)
- Gears of War Ultimate Edition – Random freezes may be experienced during gameplay
- Ashes of the Singularity 2.0 Benchmark now supports DirectFlip
- XCOM 2 flickering textures may be experienced at various game locations
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – The game may randomly crash on launch if Tessellation is enabled
