AMD Adrenalin 21.12.1 – Game Ready for Icarus, Halo Infinite, And More!

AMD graphics card owners, yes December may be young, and Christmas may be just on the horizon, but don’t let that fool you into thinking that new drivers won’t be released looking to bring you support for the final smatterings of games attempting to get out of the door before the new year. So, with AMD Radeon Adrenalin 21.12.1 now released, with it bringing game-ready support for Icarus, Halo Infinite, and much more, this definitely seems to be worth checking out!

AMD Radeon Adrenalin 21.12.1

As part of the official update notes, AMD has confirmed the following support, optimisations, and general fixes their latest graphics card drivers bring:

Support For:

• Halo Infinite™
  • Up to 17% increase in performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6900 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.11.3.^RS-434
  • Up to 19% increase in performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.11.3.^RS-435
  • Up to 16% increase in performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 12 GB Radeon™ RX 6700 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.11.3.^RS-436
• Fortnite™
• Icarus™
• Blender 3.0™ on Radeon™ RX 6000 series Graphics.

Fixed Issues:

• While running SteamVR Home on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ VII Graphics, some users may experience a crash.
• During Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™ gameplay, some users may experience driver timeouts on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 5500 XT Graphics.
• While playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™ with multiple displays connected in extended mode, Radeon™ Software may become unresponsive when the user is in the lobby and attempts to open Radeon Software on the secondary display via the context menu.
• Visual corruption may be observed on a vehicle’s logo or license plate number while playing Forza Horizon 5™ on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 500 series Graphics.

Where Can I Get My Update?

As always, if you already have the AMD Adrenalin Edition app installed on your PC (which you certainly should if you have one of their graphics cards), then a quick check of it should now prompt you to download and update to this latest 21.12.1 driver release. However, if that doesn’t work, you can learn more (and/or manually download it) via the link here!

What do you think? How often do you update your graphics card drivers? – Let us know in the comments!