AMD Software Adrenalin 22.10.2 WHQL Now Available

This weekend saw the release of the latest AMD Software Adrenalin drivers, with this update bringing us up to version 22.10.2 WHQL. Of course, these updates usually bring a suite of fixes for major and minor issues alike, as well as hopefully improving the overall performance of a few titles. However, this update seems less focused on gaming, and addresses quite a few video playback issues.

From top to bottom, it looks like the Radeon Super resolutions issue with HDR settings on certain games has now been resolved, which is excellent! The Vertical Refresh Sync issue that was causing video playback issues is now resolved, as is the driver timeout while using HEVC. There’s also a fix for Chromium-based browsers stuttering issues, so overall, quite a lot of video playback issues are resolved there. There’s also a fix for the Oculus Dashboard for Oculus Quest 2 and some colouring issues in VEGAS pro.

There are still some known issues though, which will hopefully be addressed in the next update. If you want to update you can download the drivers from AMD here or use the software update feature from within Windows.

Fixed Issues

• Radeon Super Resolution may fail to trigger after changing resolution or HDR settings on games such as Nioh 2.
• Vertical Refresh Sync set globally to Always Off may cause system stuttering or driver timeout during video playback using Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs.
• Driver timeout may occur using HEVC hardware encoding on Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs.
• Dropped frames may occur during video playback using hardware acceleration on Chromium-based browsers with Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs.
• Chromium-based browsers may experience video stuttering on extended monitors with mixed refresh rates using Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs.
• Oculus dashboard menu and rendered controllers may appear bouncing/wobbly on Oculus Quest 2 with some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon RX 6800 XT Graphics.
• While previewing the timeline in VEGAS Pro, some colors may appear inverted.

Known Issues

• GPU utilization may be stuck at 100% in Radeon performance metrics after closing games on some AMD Graphics Products such as Radeon 570.
• When Radeon Anti-Lag is enabled, a beep can be heard when pressing shift + back key. [Resolution targeted for 22.11.1]
• Elite Dangerous may crash upon launch on Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs. [Resolution targeted for 22.10.3]
• Stuttering may occur during video playback using hardware acceleration with Firefox on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon RX 6900 XT Graphics.
• Brief display corruption may occur when switching between video and game windows on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon RX 6700 XT.
• Improvements have been made in 22.10.2 to reduce occurrence for some configurations.