AMD Releases Radeon Crimson Edition 16.10.1 Drivers

Following shortly on last month’s release, AMD has dropped another driver version, the first for October. As expected, the new release is a beta hotfix but we should be getting a WHQL release later this month or in November if they keep to their release unofficial cadence. This time, the key additions are support for Gears of War 4 and Mafia III as well as Crossfire support for Shadow Warrior 2.

In terms of fixes, there are 4 fixes for Crossfire stability and flickering. Honestly, the state of Crossfire and SLI isn’t that great so we’ll hopefully see DX12 multi-adapter take off soon as a replacement. AMD’s own Radeon software are also getting some fixes as well. In terms of known issues, there aren’t that many right now but some of them have been there for a while so we might see some fixes for those soon. You can find the full release notes and download links here.

• Support For:
  • Gears of War® 4
  • Mafia III™

• New AMD CrossFire profile added for DirectX® 11:
  • Shadow Warrior™2

Fixed Issues

• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided™ may experience minor stutter during gameplay when using AMD CrossFire mode or may crash when launching the in game benchmark.
• The Crew™ may experience a random or sudden FPS drop while playing.
• Battlefield™1 may experience flickering on some surfaces when using AMD CrossFire mode.
• Radeon WattMan may fail to keep Power Limit settings after hitting apply in some cases.
• Overwatch™ may experience flickering character models while in the hero selection menu or during gameplay in AMD Crossfire mode.
• Paragon™ may experience flickering while using AMD FreeSync technology and AMD CrossFire mode in conjunction.
• Pixel Format option is no longer missing for some Radeon RX 400 series products in Radeon Settings.

Known Issues

• A few game titles may fail to launch, experience performance issues or crash if the third party application “Raptr” has its game overlay enabled. A workaround is to disable the overlay if this is experienced.
• The Division™ may experience a game hang during extended periods of play while in AMD CrossFire mode.
• Rise of the Tomb Raider™ may experience an application crash when changing the resolution from in-game menus when running DirectX®12. Users can restart the game to complete the resolution change.
• While using or having Radeon WattMan open in Radeon Settings in AMD CrossFire mode, the secondary/slave graphics processor clocks will increase to their highest state.
• H.264 content may experience blocky corruption when streaming using P2P content players on some Radeon RX 400 series graphics products.