AMD drivers updated with Quantum Break, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift support

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AMD’s Radeon Software Crimson Edition has recently received an important update that fixes a series of known issues and brings supports for the game Quantum Break along with the HTC ViveĀ and Oculus Rift VR headsets. This update comes soon after its patches for Hitman.

Here’s the official list of the improvements in this update :

Support for:
Quantum Breakā„¢
Upto 35% faster performance using Quantum Breakā„¢ on Radeonā„¢ R9 Fury X than with Radeonā„¢ Software Crimson Edition 16.3.2(1).
Oculus Riftā„¢
HTC Viveā„¢
Resolved Issues
Frame rate capping issues experienced in some DirectXĀ®12 applications is resolved.
Hitmanā„¢ may experience flickering when played in DirectXĀ® 11 mode using high game shadow settings.

Quantum Break was officially released yesterday, so don’t forget to update to the latest Software Crimson Edition for full support. As listed above, the update has solved only two issues. However, there are still some very annoying issues that haven’t been fixed at all such as:

  1. The Divisionā„¢ may experience flickering in AMD Crossfireā„¢ mode.
  2. Power efficiency toggle in Radeonā„¢ Settings is showing up for some unsupported products.
  3. Some DX9 applications cannot disable AMD Crossfireā„¢ mode through Radeonā„¢ Settings.
  4. HDMI Scaling options may not be available in Radeonā„¢ Settings on some system configurations.

(READ ALSO:Ā AMD announces the Radeon Pro Duo VR-oriented graphics card)

Let’s hope AMD quickly fixes these issues. Here are some work arounds for other bugs that don’t have a definite fix:

  1. 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”.

  2. Need For Speedā„¢ may experience poor scaling or flickering in AMD Crossfireā„¢ mode. As a work around users can disable the profile through the Radeonā„¢ Settings game manager.

  3. XCOM2ā„¢ users may experience an application crash when using AMD Crossfireā„¢ mode. As a work around please disable AMD Crossfireā„¢ for the games profile in the Radeonā„¢ Settings Gaming tab.

  4. A small subset of AMD Radeonā„¢ R9 380 users may be experiencing slower than expected fan speeds. A work around is to raise your fan speeds through AMD Overdrive in Radeonā„¢ Settings manually to a desired amount.

 

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