Drivers
As AMD is now well into their third generation of RDNA architecture GPUs, the sun has been slowly setting on AMD’s remaining Graphics Core Next (GCN) designs, better known by the architecture names of Polaris and Vega. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK, and now we have confirmation that the company is slowly winding down support for these architectures in their Windows drivers as well. Under AMD’s extended driver support schedule for Polaris and Vega, the drivers for these architectures will no longer be kept at feature parity with the RDNA architectures. And while AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come, that support is being reduced...
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.3
AMD's Radeon Technologies Group has released another driver update with a healthy list of fixes. On the list today are fixes for CrossFire, flickering in both rendering and the...
17 by Daniel Williams on 7/29/2016
NVIDIA Releases 368.69 WHQL Game Ready Driver
NVIDIA is back once again with their first driver release for the month of July. This latest update, 368.69 WQHL, is focused on the usual mix of fixes, along...
3 by Daniel Williams on 7/7/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson 16.6.2 Drivers
AMD has now brought us their latest card in the Radeon RX 480. With new cards comes new drivers. We are also getting fixes and a list of new...
4 by Daniel Williams on 6/30/2016
NVIDIA Releases 368.39 WHQL Game Ready Driver, Adds GTX 1070 Support
As the GeForce GTX 1070 approaches, NVIDIA has prepared a driver release for the upcoming card. Along with support to the coming GPU and a list of fixes, we...
30 by Daniel Williams on 6/8/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.1
Here we are with AMD's next driver update, Radeon Sofware Crimson Edition 16.6.1. This brings the driver version to 16.20.1025. With the changes that come along with the update...
20 by Daniel Williams on 6/7/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.3
New technologies come along, new games release, things break, and developers fix them. As this cycle continues we are brought to this latest update from AMD which gives us...
10 by Daniel Williams on 5/24/2016
NVIDIA Releases 368.22 WHQL Game Ready Driver
As the news has been, new game releases means more driver updates. Alongside game ready support for more titles this week and a fix we also get a heads...
13 by Daniel Williams on 5/24/2016
NVIDIA Releases 365.10 WHQL Game Ready Driver
With more game releases and open betas coming down the pipe this spring, driver developers are getting busy preparing our graphics cards for the new games. This time NVIDIA...
8 by Daniel Williams on 5/3/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.2 Hotfix
With a couple of weeks since their last driver release, AMD has handed us another update. Alongside a list of fixes, and a focus on a narrow set of...
5 by Daniel Williams on 4/26/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.1 Hotfix - Game Ready Support for Quantum Break
Another week another driver release, at least that feels like the way of it now. While some of AMD’s driver releases lately have been light on features and fixes...
12 by Daniel Williams on 4/5/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3.1 Hotfix
Following last week's release of Radeon Software 16.3 Hotfix, AMD is back again with a quick update to their driver set, bringing it to 16.3.1 Hotfix. The list of resolved...
7 by Daniel Williams on 3/18/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 Hotfix: Support for Vulkan and TB3 Enclosures
With the driver update floodgates not closing yet, we are given a massive update from AMD that brings Radeon Software Crimson Edition to version 16.3 (driver version 16.15). Incoming...
18 by Daniel Williams on 3/10/2016
NVIDIA Releases 364.47 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Not even a week has passed and we have another driver update from NVIDIA. Despite the quick turnaround this is not a rushed released. Indeed, we have some heavy...
22 by Daniel Williams on 3/8/2016
NVIDIA Releases 362.00 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Right on cue NVIDIA has delivered another game ready driver for a collection of newly released titles. Bringing, alongside the typical performance and stability reasons, additional graphical improvements to...
13 by Daniel Williams on 3/2/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson 16.2 Drivers
It didn't take long at all, but AMD has come in with another driver update full of performance enhancements, compatibility fixes, and bug fixes. With continued efforts on their...
16 by Daniel Williams on 2/25/2016
NVIDIA releases 361.75 WHQL Game Ready Driver
With both the new release of Rise of the Tomb Raider and the upcoming Tom Clancy’s The Division beta, NVIDIA has diligently prepared a new game ready driver to...
19 by Daniel Williams on 1/28/2016
AMD Releases Crimson 16.1 Hotfix Drivers
This week AMD has pushed out their first video driver release of the year, Crimson 16.1 Hotfix. Between this latest hotfix and their previous Crimson update, AMD is making...
35 by Daniel Williams on 1/12/2016
NVIDIA Releases 361.43 WHQL Game Ready Driver
The holiday season is fast approaching a climax, and this season the stream of driver updates isn’t ready to quit. With that NVIDIA has brought us a stocking loaded...
11 by Daniel Williams on 12/22/2015
AMD Releases Crimson 15.12 WHQL Drivers
Just last month we saw the release of AMDs new Radeon Software Crimson Edition. This release included the brand new Radeon Settings and promised a new commitment to more...
33 by Daniel Williams on 12/18/2015
NVIDIA Releases 359.06 WHQL Game Ready Driver
NVIDIA is continuing their efforts to provide game ready drivers on launch day throughout the AAA/holiday season. Without missing a beat they are giving us a two for one...
13 by Daniel Williams on 12/2/2015
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