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Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 Highlights

Updated Crossfire Profiles available for
◾Hitman™
◾The Park


Support for​
◾Hitman™

Performance and Quality improvements for​
◾Rise of the Tomb Raider™(2)
◾​Up to 16% on AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury X Series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.
◾​Gears of War Ultimate Edition(3)
◾Up to 60% on AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury X series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1
◾Up to 44% on AMD Radeon™ R9 380 series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1

​Vulkan™ Support(1): Vulkan™ is the successor to OpenGL and a descendant of AMD's Mantle. Vulkan™ is a powerful "low-overhead" graphics API that gives software developers deep control over the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of Radeon™ GPUs and multi-core CPUs. More information on Vulkan™ can be found at https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/.
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Per-Game Display Scaling: A new feature introduced in Radeon™ Settings that allows per game Display Scaling to be set within the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab under "Profile Options".

Language Menu: A new feature introduced in Radeon™ Settings that allows the end user to select their preferred language from a drop down menu under the "Preferences -> Language" tab.

Two Display Eyefinity: Two Display Eyefinity is now an available option under the Eyefinity tab in Radeon™ Settings.

AMD Crossfire™ Status Indicator: A new feature in Radeon™ Settings that allows users to toggle an AMD Crossfire™ status indicator on their screen when running in AMD Crossfire™ mode.

Updated Social Links: New Social links are now available for Radeon™ Settings home page and have also updated based on geographical region.​

Power Efficiency Toggle: A new feature introduced in the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab for select AMD Radeon™ 300 series and AMD Radeon™ Fury X available under "Global Options". This allows the user to disable some power efficiency optimizations.

AMD XConnect™ technology: This driver provides initial support for external GPU enclosures configured with Radeon™ R9 300 Series GPUs are now supported over Thunderbolt™ 3 (USB-C) connections. AMD XConnect™ technology additionally provides plug'n'play support and an integrated management interface. Base system must have BIOS support for external GPUs (e.g. Razer Blade Stealth).

Resolved Issues
◾Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption (Fixed with new Power Efficiency feature toggled to off)
◾Gears of War Ultimate Edition - Random freezes may be experienced during gameplay
◾Ashes of the Singularity 2.0 Benchmark now supports DirectFlip
◾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

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"
◾Installing via command line may not work for some users. As a workaround please use the default GUI installer
◾League of Legends may experience some graphical corruption on characters death animation in AMD Crossfire™ mode
◾Rift may experience a hang when playing with FRTC and V-Sync enabled. As a work around users are suggested to disable V-Sync
◾Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 may experience some flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode
◾Rise of the Tomb Raider may experience graphical corruption in some cinematics
◾The Division may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode
◾Star Wars Battlefront users may experience flicker in AMD Crossfire™ mode on battle and tutorial loading screens
◾Star Wars Battlefront users may experience ground texture issues in certain locations on Survival Hoth missions
 
I think the items that I am eagerly looking forward to...


most excited about:


Performance and Quality improvements for
•Rise of the Tomb Raider™(2) Up to 16% on AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury X Series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.

•Gears of War Ultimate Edition(3) Up to 60% on AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury X series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1
Up to 44% on AMD Radeon™ R9 380 series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1


Vulkan™ Support(1): Vulkan™ is the successor to OpenGL and a descendant of AMD's Mantle. Vulkan™ is a powerful "low-overhead" graphics API that gives software developers deep control over the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of Radeon™ GPUs and multi-core CPUs. More information on Vulkan™ can be found at Vulkan - Industry Forged.

Per-Game Display Scaling: A new feature introduced in Radeon™ Settings that allows per game Display Scaling to be set within the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab under "Profile Options".



(AND)



Two Display Eyefinity: Two Display Eyefinity is now an available option under the Eyefinity tab in Radeon™ Settings.
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AMD Crossfire™ Status Indicator: A new feature in Radeon™ Settings that allows users to toggle an AMD Crossfire™ status indicator on their screen when running in AMD Crossfire™ mode.

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Power Efficiency Toggle: A new feature introduced in the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab for select AMD Radeon™ 300 series and AMD Radeon™ Fury X available under "Global Options". This allows the user to disable some power efficiency optimizations.

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Resolved Issues


•Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption (Fixed with new Power Efficiency feature toggled to off)

•Ashes of the Singularity 2.0 Benchmark now supports DirectFlip
 
I love how they name these "Non-WHQL-64Bit-Radeon-Software-Crimson-16.3-Win10-Win8.1-Win7-March9.exe"
 
I'm hopeful that the Power Saving disabling feature will solve the occasional screen corruption that occurs at idle. Does anyone have information on whether this setting targets that particular issue?
 
Well AMD seems a very "good" student now.
On the nvidia side i like the release notes when they group it like "Non-nvidia issues" ... Somehow i like more the more information that they put in the release notes.
 
rms said:
I'm hopeful that the Power Saving disabling feature will solve the occasional screen corruption that occurs at idle. Does anyone have information on whether this setting targets that particular issue?
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There is a problem with Fury series that can't get sustained performance because of the frequencies variations durring gaming.This resulted in choppy playing and more stuttering and possible screen corruption.
 
*Edit*
I was wrong except for this part,. Installed an app called Flash Control to deal with the issue below.


The Feb 25th beta had the annoying fan sticks at 99% could trigger it everytime just by loading the Dragon's Dogma Wiki page and wait for the inevitable shockwave crash reload page and listen to the fan slowly ramp up to 99%.
Chrome with it's built in flash hardware acceleration on/off didn't matter.
 
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Just installed 16.3 after cleaned 16.2 and worked as expected. I tried the power efficiency turned off and tested on Serious Sam BFE. It was noticeable, but not exactly full clock, but still much better than what it used to be. I'll stick to 16.3 from now. :)
 
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DarkFoss said:
That new toggle power efficiency doesn't work for me, if anything going by gpu-z it's worse when toggled off. I now see periodic 2 second gaps along with the usual 1 second drop in gpu load. Load drops are all over the spectrum. percentage wise and with increased frequency with FAH.

I'm not even going to try gaming with these back to the Feb 17th Vulcan beta.Those are the only driver that provides constant 100% gpu load gaming and/or running FAH.

The Feb 25th beta had the annoying fan sticks at 99% could trigger it everytime just by loading the Dragon's Dogma Wiki page and wait for the inevitable shockwave crash reload page and listen to the fan slowly ramp up to 99%.
Chrome with it's built in flash hardware acceleration on/off didn't matter.
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you have a 7970 according to your profile, its not supposed work for you.

Its only for 390/fury.

Doent anyone read the release notes?

"select AMD Radeon™ 300 series and AMD Radeon™ Fury X"
 
The Mac said:
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you have a 7970 according to your profile, its not supposed work for you.

Its only for 390/fury.

Doent anyone read the release notes?

"select AMD Radeon™ 300 series and AMD Radeon™ Fury X"
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Yeah, it's a bug, actually if anyone owns 7xxx series. It's not supposed to be there in the settings. But only for 300/Fury series.
 
The Mac said:
z

you have a 7970 according to your profile, its not supposed work for you.

Its only for 390/fury.

Doent anyone read the release notes?

"select AMD Radeon™ 300 series and AMD Radeon™ Fury X"
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Gah Thanks I forgot to update my profile I've had 2 Fury X's since July.
 
Now the choose another predefined CF-profile line is completly gone :nuts: :confused:



Also still some core clock dropping in dx9-games, mostly the second GPU ~500 mhz.
And,.. some older games refuse to perform more then 39.9 fps in 5K, demanding or not, among them quite a lot UE3-games.


Edit, the choose another predefined CF-profile line is back, after resising the crimson settings window. The scrollbar was missing, maybe due windows scaling, I'm on 250%.
 
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As a reminder power efficiency is a GLOBAL setting :-) not per game(yet)
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@md_Guy said:
As a reminder power efficiency is a GLOBAL setting :-) not per game(yet)
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Yes I know that and its good enough for me, but it won't work everywhere:




Also redefining an other CF profile, for example Skyrim to Fear wont work, although I got the line back.
 
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Well...crap.
Finally got around to installing these, and I get:
Code: 
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
  Application Name:	RadeonSettings.exe
  Application Version:	10.1.1.1622
  Application Timestamp:	56de081e
  Fault Module Name:	atiadlxx.dll
  Fault Module Version:	7.16.15.1302
  Fault Module Timestamp:	56c37db4
  Exception Code:	c0000005
  Exception Offset:	000000000008e647
  OS Version:	6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.103
  Locale ID:	1033
  Additional Information 1:	a3a0
  Additional Information 2:	a3a0950f16bb7be5bf9e802f686f7d18
  Additional Information 3:	0f97
  Additional Information 4:	0f97a03d83fa4eb00276281d4b7661a3

Tried to uninstall Radeon Settings, and install it again, and same crash.
Then tried to uninstall everything, and reinstall, same crash yet again.

Bah.
 
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