Download Driver For AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1

AMD has released a new version of Radeon Software Crimson Edition, as the drivers for the video cards are called today. The drivers are only suitable for the HD 7750 and higher, the HD 8570 and higher, and of course the cards from the R5, R7 and R9 series. As for Windows, only versions 7, 8.1 and 10 are supported. For older cards, now labeled legacy or non-gcn, version 15.7.1 is the last stable release and version 16.2.1 is released as beta offered. In this update we find a Crossfire profile for the game Far Cry Primal. However, the bug fixes listed in the changelog are one-for-one identical to those for version 16.2.

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1 Highlights

• Crossfire Profile available for Far Cry Primal

Resolved Issues

• A black screen/TDR error may be encountered when booting a system with Intel + AMD graphics and an HDMI monitor connected
• Choppy gameplay may be experienced when both AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ are both enabled
• Display corruption may be observed after keeping system idle for some time
• Fallout 4 – Flickering may be experienced at various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire™ enabled
• Fallout 4 – Foliage/water may ripple/stutter when game is launched in High/Ultra settings mode
• Fallout 4 – Screen tearing in systems with both AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled if game is left idle for a short period of time
• Fallout 4 – Thumbnails may flicker or disappear while scrolling the Perk levels page
• Far Cry 4 – Stuttering may be observed when launching the game with AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled
• FRTC options are displayed on some unsupported laptop configurations with Intel CPU’s and AMD GPU’s
• Radeon Settings may sometimes fails to launch with a “Context Creation Error” message
• Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – Corruption can be observed at some locations during gameplay
• Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – Flickering may be experienced at various game locations when the game is left idle in AMD Crossfire™ mode under Windows 7
• Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – Game may intermittently crash or hang when launched with very high settings and AA is set to SMAA at 4K resolution
• Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – Lara Croft’s hair may flicker in some locations if the Esc key is pressed
• Rise of Tomb Raider™ – A TDR error may be observed with some AMD Radeon 300 Series products after launching the “Geothermal Valley” mission
• The AMD Overdrive™ memory clock slider does not show original clock values ​​if memory speeds are overclocked
• World of Warcraft runs extremely slowly in quad crossfire at high resolutions

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”
• Star Wars™: Battlefront – Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
• Cannot enable AMD Crossfire with some dual GPU AMD Radeon HD 59xx and HD 79xx series products
• Fallout 4 – In game stutter may be experienced if the game is launched with AMD Crossfire enabled
• 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
• Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption