AMD Releases Crimson 16.1 Hotfix Drivers

35 Comments

View All Comments

• TheITS - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - link

  It would be wonderful if they could fix overdrive so that lowering a memory overclock (to higher than stock) doesn't require a reinstall.

• AS118 - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - link

  I agree. I ran into this problem myself even on the latest 16.1 update, and I had to uninstall and reinstall to fix the problem of ram never un-overclocking (even at idle) once you overclocked it even once.
  
  I even told AMD Care about it on Twitter. I like how they're trying so hard with Crimson, but to be honest, I would have preferred that they'd just stuck with Catalyst until they made sure Crimson was stable.
  
  The last "beta" Catalyst driver worked just fine for me.

• nathanddrews - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - link

  To be fair, if they kept plugging away at Catalyst while trying to support Crimson, then both products would have suffered. A clean break was needed and that's what we've got. Despite some quirks, Crimson has been really slick to use by comparison to Catalyst. I haven't upgraded since the first release, so I don't know if this is fixed, but what I found really strange was that the HDTV Overscan settings in Crimson actually open up the old CCC panel. Hopefully they have migrated all the menus over to the new platform by now.

• bug77 - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - link

  You do realize Crimson is just a rebrand and a new GUI, don't you? Underneath it sits the same driver.

• extide - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - link

  Yeah but his point is still valid, supporting two control panels in full swing means only half the effort on each one. And yeah some stuff hasn't been migrated to the new Radeon Settings tool yet, but I am sure they will eventually move it all and the old CCC will be gone for good.

• nathanddrews - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - link

  Yes, this. It's the lack of thoroughness that bugs me. First thing I heard was "CCC is gone, long live Crimson!" Then the first thing I did in Crimson brought up CCC. LOL

• mindbomb - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - link

  I have to disagree. The first crimson driver fixed a lot of seemingly intractable bugs I had with the catalyst drivers.

• D. Lister - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - link

  Crimson still apparently has a long list of "known issues":
  
  StarCraft II: Flickering may be observed in the ‘Episode 3’ campaign
  Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – Flickering or poor performance may be experienced when running in AMD Crossfire™ mode
  Call of Duty Online – The game may crash if the Print Screen key is pressed on a 4K monitor
  A system restart may be experience when waking the system from sleep mode on some systems with Intel processors
  Star Wars™: Battlefront – Texture corruption may be experienced if the game “Field of View” setting is > 100
  Star Wars™: Battlefront – Some users may experience minor flickering or corruption at different game location or while viewing the in-game cinematics
  Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – Building textures may be missing on some AMD Freesync™ displays with VSync enabled
  Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – The game may crash if the Gaming Evolved “In Game Overlay” is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved “In Game Overlay”
  Total War™: Rome II – Choppy gameplay may be experienced
  Gaming Evolved client does not initiate when launching Metro Last Light if AMD CrossFire™ is enabled
  Far Cry 4 – A crash may occur after performing (ALT + Enter) to switch between windowed/full screen modes with the AMD Gaming Evolved “Video Capture” feature turned on
  Talos Principle – A crash may occur while changing Gaming Evolved Video settings or pressing ALT + Enter when “In Game Overlay” is enabled
  Mad Max – Low FPS performance may be experienced in game when AMD FreeSync™ and AMD CrossFire™ are enabled
  Battlefield Hardline – A crash may occur when changing graphics settings from “Ultra” to “High” during gameplay
  Some games may experience brightness flickering with AMD FreeSync™ enabled
  Radeon Settings – AMD OverDrive™ clock gauge needles for the secondary GPU may be in wrong position when the system is idle and the secondary GPU is inactive
  Radeon Settings – AMD OverDrive™ Power setting changes on the secondary GPU are not immediately displayed. This is seen only on dual GPU graphics cards, such as the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990 and Radeon R9 295×2
  Game stuttering may be experienced when running two AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2 graphics cards in AMD CrossFire™ mode
  Display corruption may occur on multiple display systems when it has been running idle for some time
  Star Wars™: Battlefront – Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
  Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – Flickering may be observed is task switching is used during gameplay
  Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – Building textures are missing and game objects stutter if VSync is enabled in Quad AMD Crossfire configurations
  
  18% market share, and dropping...

• Creig - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - link

  Hey genius, guess what? Nvidia has their own long list of "known issues".

• D. Lister - Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - link

  Of course, no piece of hardware is perfect. It is just that some are more imperfect than others. Either that, or Nvidia has hired dark elves to mind-control the public into buying something more buggy for a higher price tag.