AMD's ongoing trend of released Day 0 Beta Drivers for upcoming triple-A game releases continues this week with the unveiling of Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.3 Beta. This release specifically targets optimisations for Dishonored 2, the stealth-based FPS from Bethesda that officially releases on November 11th but allows early-access for pre-order customers on Steam.
Alongside support for Dishonored 2 AMD are also implemeting fixes for X-Connect's interaction with Steam and Origin desktop clients. With this patch the applications should no longer force-close when an external GPU connected via X-Connect is disconnected.
As usual the latest drivers can be downloaded from http://support.amd.com/en-us/download and are available for 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, 8/8.1 and 10. The specific download page for this release can be found here.
Release Notes:
Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.3 Highlights
Support For:
- Dishonored™ 2
Fixed Issues:
- Steam™ and Origin™ will no longer terminate when using AMD X-Connect Technology on unplug.
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.
- DOTA™2 may experience a crash when launched using the Vulkan™ API on some Graphics Core Next products.
- Battlefield™1 may experience an intermittent application specific error message popup citing graphics device removal
- Flickering may be experience while playing Overwatch™ in the main menu or viewing character models using AMD CrossFire mode.
- H.264 content playback may experience playback issues on internet browsers with hardware acceleration when also running gaming applications or content.
- FIFA 17™ may experience an application hang or black screen on launch for some select Hybrid Graphics or AMD PowerXpress mobile configurations.
- H.264 content may experience blocky corruption when streaming using P2P content players on some Radeon RX 400 series graphics products.
Support For:
- Dishonored™ 2
Fixed Issues:
- Steam™ and Origin™ will no longer terminate when using AMD X-Connect Technology on unplug.
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.
- DOTA™2 may experience a crash when launched using the Vulkan™ API on some Graphics Core Next products.
- Battlefield™1 may experience an intermittent application specific error message popup citing graphics device removal
- Flickering may be experience while playing Overwatch™ in the main menu or viewing character models using AMD CrossFire mode.
- H.264 content playback may experience playback issues on internet browsers with hardware acceleration when also running gaming applications or content.
- FIFA 17™ may experience an application hang or black screen on launch for some select Hybrid Graphics or AMD PowerXpress mobile configurations.
- H.264 content may experience blocky corruption when streaming using P2P content players on some Radeon RX 400 series graphics products.
The new drivers are compatible with discrete AMD Radeon GCN-Based GPUs only; users of AMD's APU graphics should continue to utilise the most recent release build (RSCE 16.9.2).
