AMD support now offers new version 16.2.1 Crimson reference drivers for AMD
graphics cards (thanks Mashiki). These include a crossfire profile for the newly
released Far Cry Primal, and resolves a number of outstanding issues, though
there are still a few titles that can crash when using their Gaming Evolved
overlay. Here's word:
Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1
Highlights
- Crossfire Profile available for
Resolved Issues
- A black screen/TDR error may be encountered when
booting a system with Intel + AMD graphics and an HDMI monitor connected
- Choppy gameplay may be experienced when both AMD
Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ are both enabled
- Display corruption may be observed after keeping
system idle for some time
- Fallout 4 - Flickering may be experienced at
various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire™
enabled
- Fallout 4 - Foliage/water may ripple/stutter when
game is launched in High/Ultra settings mode
- Fallout 4 - Screen tearing in systems with both
AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled if game is left idle for a short
period of time
- Fallout 4 - Thumbnails may flicker or disappear
while scrolling the Perk levels page
- Far Cry 4 - Stuttering may be observed when
launching the game with AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled
- FRTC options are displayed on some unsupported
laptop configurations with Intel CPU's and AMD GPU's
- Radeon Settings may sometimes fails to launch with
a "Context Creation Error" message
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Corruption can be
observed at some locations during gameplay
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Flickering may be
experienced at various game locations when the game is left idle in AMD
Crossfire™ mode under Windows 7
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Game may intermittently
crash or hang when launched with very high settings and AA is set to SMAA at
4K resolution
- Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Lara Croft's hair may
flicker in some locations if the Esc key is pressed
- Rise of Tomb Raider™ - A TDR error may be observed
with some AMD Radeon 300 Series products after launching the "Geothermal
Valley" mission
- The AMD Overdrive™ memory clock slider does not
show original clock values if memory speeds are overclocked
- World of Warcraft runs extremely slowly in quad
crossfire at high resolutions
- Known Issues
- A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if
the Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable
the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"
- Star Wars™: Battlefront - Corrupted ground
textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
- Cannot enable AMD Crossfire with some dual GPU AMD
Radeon HD 59xx and HD 79xx series products
- Fallout 4 - In game stutter may be experienced if
the game is launched with AMD Crossfire enabled
- 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
- Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock
speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption