AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 WHQL. - Introducing Radeon™ Software Adrenalin Edition, artfully designed and meticulously crafted to unleash the powerful performance and innovation built into Radeon™ Graphics through an incredibly intuitive and utterly beautiful user interface for both PCs and mobile devices.
AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 (WHQL) released February 26, 2024
WHQL Test Suite Results: Passed
WHQL Microsoft Certification: Passed
Driver Version for Windows® 10 and Windows® 11: 23.40.19.01
Windows Driver Store Version: 31.0.24019.1006
New Feature Highlights
New Game Support
Skull and Bones
Nightingale
Expanded Vulkan Extensions Support
VK_KHR_calibrated_timestamps
VK_KHR_line_rasterization
VK_KHR_load_store_op_none
VK_KHR_index_type_uint8
VK_KHR_shader_expect_assume
VK_KHR_shader_quad_control
VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_rotate
VK_KHR_vertex_attribute_divisor
VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2
VK_EXT_primitives_generated_query
VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library
VK_KHR_maintenance6
Click HERE for more information about other Vulkan® extension support.
Fixed Issues
Improvement to intermittent driver timeout or application crash experienced while playing HELLDIVERS™ 2 on AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs. AMD is continuing to investigate additional reports of driver timeouts and application crashes while playing HELLDIVERS™ 2.
Improvements to excessive stutter while playing various games, including Battlefield™ 2042, Destiny 2, Overwatch 2, Monster Hunter: World, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS and STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II.
Deathloop may experience extended loading times on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6900 XT.
Dead Space may experience an application crash after enabling RTAO on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6800.
Intermittent application crash when first launching Enshrouded or changing Anti-Aliasing settings on Radeon™ 7000 series graphics products.
Shadows may appear bright, or reflections may be missing while playing Enshrouded on Radeon™ 7000 series graphics products.
HDR settings may intermittently fail to take effect while playing certain games such as Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
Intermittent driver timeout or application crash may be considered while playing Counterstrike 2 with FSR enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX.
Graphics API metric may be incorrectly reported as DirectX® 12 for some Vulkan® games.
After a system reboot, Parsec host application may experience a crash on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX.
During Microsoft Teams meetings, the camera may intermittently display looped footage on some AMD Products, such as the AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840U Processor.
Oculus Rift S may display with a green tint on AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs.
AFMF may be inaccurately displayed on select hybrid graphics configurations, particularly in systems where one of the devices lacks support for AFMF. AFMF must be supported on the displaying GPU to be activated.
Mouse lag or stutter may be observed when selecting the discrete GPU as the primary display adapter on certain mobile systems, such as an AMD Ryzen™ 9 6900HS Mobile Processor paired with an AMD Radeon™ RX 6800S Mobile GPU.
Known Issues
Intermittent driver timeout or application crash may be experienced while playing HELLDIVERS™ 2 with 100% GPU utilization on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX.
Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Starcraft II™ on Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs.
Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Overwatch® 2 with Radeon™ Boost enabled on Radeon™ RX 6000 and above series GPUs. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to disable Radeon™ Boost as a temporary workaround.
World of Warcraft may experience extended initial loading times with DirectX 12 API on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6800.
Shader caching may fail for Windows usernames containing accented characters. [Resolution targeted for 24.3.1]
FPS performance metric may incorrectly report values while a game is minimized. [Resolution targeted for 24.3.1]
AMD SmartAccess Video may be incorrectly reported as “Available” on some systems with the Parsec Virtual Display Driver installed.
Performance drop may be observed while using some DirectML workloads in Topaz AI.
Audio and video may intermittently become out of sync while recording using the AV1 codec in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition. [Resolution targeted for Q3]
Important Notes:
For users who previously installed an AMD Software preview driver, running AMD Cleanup Utility is recommended before installing this driver.
Some per-game graphics profiles may have incorrectly been set to HYPR-RX Eco after a driver upgrade. Users experiencing this issue may use the Factory Reset option to return all profiles to default.
Note: The page contains two driver packages, one for RDNA series graphics products and one (combined) for Systems pairing RDNA series graphics products with Polaris or Vega series graphics products
Product Compatibility:
Radeon Product Compatibility
Radeon™ RX 7900/7800/7700/7600 Series Graphics
Radeon™ RX 6900/6800/6700/6600/6500/6400 Series Graphics
Radeon™ RX 5700/5600/5500/5300 Series Graphics
Mobility Radeon™ Product Compatibility
AMD Radeon™ RX 6800M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 6700M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 6600M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 6500M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 6300M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 5700M/5600M/5500M/5300M Series Graphics
AMD Processors with Radeon Graphics Product Compatibility
Desktop
AMD Ryzen™ Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
AMD Ryzen™ PRO Processors
AMD Athlon™ Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
AMD Athlon™ PRO Processors
Mobile
AMD Ryzen™ Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
AMD Ryzen™ PRO Processors
AMD Athlon™ Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
AMD Athlon™ PRO Processors Mobile
