Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1

 Another week, another set of AMD drivers. This update to AMD's driver software suite brings new game support, stability updates and a host of fixes. The highlights of this latest driver release include:

Support For 

  • Windows®10 April 2018 Update
  • AMD Ryzen™ Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics
  • Ancestors Legacy™
  • Up to 6% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 on the Radeon™ RX Vega 56 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.4.1 at 1920x1080 (1080p).1
  • Up to 13% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 on the Radeon™ RX 580 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.4.1 at 1920x1080 (1080p).2
  • Microsoft® PlayReady®3.0
  • Supported on Radeon RX 400 Series and Radeon RX 500 Series desktop graphics products.


Fixed Issues

  • HBCC options may not properly reset to default when Radeon Settings "Restore Factory Defaults" option is selected.
  • Destiny™2 may experience increasing load time durations when the game is run for extended periods of time.
  • Tearing may be observed in some borderless fullscreen games on Radeon FreeSync enabled displays when Radeon Software performance metrics is enabled.
  • Netflix™ playback through a web browser may experience corruption or hangs when using multi GPU enabled system configurations with Radeon RX 400 series or Radeon RX 500 series graphics products.
  • Radeon ReLive streaming or uploading of videos to Facebook™ may intermittently fail.