Crimson Edition 16.8.2 Hotfix

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Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.8.2 Highlights

Support for:

  • No Man's Sky™
  • Paragon™ Open Beta
Fixed Issues

  • Overwatch™ may experience an intermittent application crash when browsing the hero gallery.
  • With a Freesync supported display and Freesync enabled, some users may experience flickering on desktop during system idle.
  • A small number of Windows 10 Anniversary Edition systems may experience install issues with secure boot enabled.
Known Issues

  • A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay".
  • Grand Theft Auto V™ may experience an application hang on Radeon RX 400 Series Graphics when playing at 4K resolution in story mode.
  • A small number of 144hz non-Freesync enabled displays may exhibit flickering during gaming or on desktop.
  • Ark Survival Evolved™ may experience an error message when trying to launch the game in some configurations.
  • DOTA2™ may experience an application hang when using the Vulkan™ API and changing resolution or game/quality settings.
  • Corruption may be experienced in Rise of the Tomb Raider using the DirectX®12 API on some Hybrid Graphics configurations when performing a task switch.
  • Shader Cache may remain be enabled when set to "off" in Radeon Settings on some Hybrid Graphics configurations.
  • Radeon RX 480 graphics may experience intermittent stuttering in The Division™ when high game settings are used and vsync is enabled.
  • Battlefield™ 4 may experience intermittent crashes when using Mantle. As a work around users are suggested to switch to DirectX®11.
  • Radeon Pro Duo may experience a black screen in Total War™: Warhammer with the games API set to DirectX®12 and V-Sync enabled.
  • World of Tanks™ may experience stuttering after performing a task switch in AMD CrossFire mode.
  • Rocket League™ may experience flickering when in AMD CrossFire mode.
  • Ashes of the Singularity™ may experience an application crash with "crazy" in game settings and Multi-GPU enabled.
 
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I noticed this release doesn't support APU's, is there a particular reason for that? Getting 16.7.3 was a huge improvement over the previous 16.3.2 release and I'm happy with the driver, but I'm kinda curious why APU users don't get non-whql releases.
 
Glad the freesync issued has been resolved but I'll probably stick with the 16.7.2. as none of the other fixes affect me.

Keep up the good work.
 
These driver have some issues:

1) black screen at the end of install when I click on reboot. screen goes black, with mouse cursor. (have to reset pc) boots up with the new drivers and such.

2) Overwatch has a small stutter/speed up slowdown every 2 seconds. Turns out that GPU clocks are all over the place, where they are normally at max clock (1050 on 390x)

reinstalled 16.7.3 all the above does not happen.
 
anyone else has Windows 7 x64 and noticed he can't upgrade since 16.7.3 ?

those drivers will install but fail to update the driver itself ...
 
Lurk said:
switch to a single 390x and you'll be born new to gaming ;)
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Lurk said:
switch to a single 390x and you'll be born new to gaming ;)
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No I wouldn't gain anything worthwhile over a 290x, and lose the crossfire gains I get in the games that support it. I'm content until the new cards can be had at msrp, then I will probably get a non ref 1080.
 
I was mainly referring to ditching crossfire. Me, never again.
And the 8Gb on the 390X do make a difference with VSR and Eyefinity resolutions, believe it or not.
But hey, to each their own.
 
Lurk said:
I was mainly referring to ditching crossfire. Me, never again.
And the 8Gb on the 390X do make a difference with VSR and Eyefinity resolutions, believe it or not.
But hey, to each their own.
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We are of kindred minds when it comes to multi-GPUs. I had my experience and it wasn't very nice.
 
I am unable to install this version of the driver no matter what I try. I'm stuck on 16.7.3. The error message I get is "Driver Install: user must be a member of the Administrators group". I am an administrator and I ran the .exe file as an administrator, so I don't know what the problem is.

This is happening both when trying to upgrade through the Crimson app and on a fresh download of the driver file.
 
Dyre Straits said:
We are of kindred minds when it comes to multi-GPUs. I had my experience and it wasn't very nice.
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I have been running multi gpus for the past 8 years full time, and it all started with the voodoo 2 days, wanting dual gpus. have had very few issues, however, not all games support it, and I am open minded enough to realize that most of the time it is not driver issues or AMD's fault that a game doesn't work with it, but rather understand that it is a issue with the game's engine or how the dev's code the game. (example, unity engine does not support multi gpu, not sure if it ever will)

There are games that really are not coded for it, but thru driver manipulation AMD (Nvidia for sli) have managed to make it work. To me, this is not a proper fix or a proper expectation to put on GPU developers. This is one reason driver packages are slowly getting larger and larger. Because AMD/Nvidia have to continue to add code to compensate for crappy game development.


However, with that said, I may be going single gpu my next go around, mainly due to heat. 2 390x crossfire kick ass, but they put off a godly amount of heat if being fully utilized. Works great to heat the house in the winter, but summer is a bitch. Not to mention the power draw:D
 
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