AMD Releases Software Adrenalin 25.5.1 WHQL Drivers

[GFreeman]

AMD has released its latest version of the AMD Software Adrenalin drivers, version 25.5.1 WHQL. The latest graphics drivers update brings official support for AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card, as well as new game support for Doom: The Dark Ages and F1 25 games. AMD also added new game support for AMD FSR 4 in several games, including Ghost of Tsushima, Frostpunk 2, Everspace 2, Fort Solis, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, The Finals, and Influx Redux, as well as expanded HYPR-RX Support to new games.

The new drivers update also added Vulkan 1.4 API support with support for several new Vulkan API extensions. AMD also fixed several issues including intermittent application crash or driver timeout in Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition and Civilization VII with Anti-Lag enabled, system crash due to a memory leak when using SteamVR on some Radeon graphics cards, including Radeon RX 9000 series, and some issues with driver installation.

DOWNLOAD: AMD Software Adrenalin 25.5.1 WHQL



New Product Support

• AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE
  • NOTE: Radeon Software for Linux packaged drivers for this product will be available later this month.

New Game Support

• Doom: The Dark Ages
• F1 25

New Game Support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4)

• Ghost of Tsushima
• Frostpunk 2
• Everspace 2
• Fort Solis
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• The Finals
• Influx Redux

Expanded HYPR-RX Support

• HYPR-Tune Support
  • Marvel's Spider-Man 2
  • Marvel Rivals
  • Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
  • Kingdom Come Deliverance II
  • Path of Exile 2

Expanded Vulkan Extension Support

• Vulkan 1.4 Support
• VK_EXT_shader_replicated_composites
• VK_KHR_maintenance8
• VK_EXT_image_2d_view_of_3d
• Click HERE for more information about other Vulkan extension support.

Fixed Issues and Improvements

• Failure to detect integrated camera may be observed after driver installation using factory reset option on some Ryzen AI Max and Max+ series products.
• Installation progress may persistently display 0% while installing AMD Chat within the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition user interface after upgrading to AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics products.
• System crash may be observed due to a memory leak when using SteamVR on some AMD Radeon Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 9000 series. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to turn off Motion Smoothing in SteamVR settings.
• Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition.
• Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while loading Civilization VII with Anti-Lag enabled.

Known Issues

• Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing The Last of Us Part 2.
• Stutter may be observed while playing games with some VR headsets at 80 Hz or 90 Hz refresh rate on some AMD Radeon Graphics Products such as the Radeon RX 7000 series. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to change the refresh rate as a temporary workaround.
• Intermittent system or application crash may be observed while playing Cyberpunk 2077
• Failure to launch may be observed for Battlefield 1 on Radeon RX 9000 series graphics products with Ryzen 9 9950X integrated graphics. Users experiencing these issues are recommended to disable integrated graphics (iGPU) in system BIOS as a temporary workaround.
• Intermittent failure to launch may be observed when AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition user interface is launched from desktop context menu or system tray.
• Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Monster Hunter Wilds with Radeon Anti-Lag and Instant Replay enabled.
• Artifacts or corruption may appear while playing BattleField on Radeon RX 7000 series graphics products.
• Quality and Performance selections may be reversed in the user interface for AMD Radeon Boost.
• Stutter may be observed while playing Call of Duty: Warzone Season 03 Verdansk map on some AMD Graphics Products.

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[Kwadratowicz]

I hope "driver timeout" for my 9070 xt is repaired in this update, cause even with stock settings drivers where buggy for me.
And finally I could set lower settings for windows system, cause 25.3.1 and 25.3.2 where resetting my profiles every time -.-

 

[Event Horizon]

Hoping to see the FSR 4 support grow even faster, especially in multiplayer games where anti-cheat prevents the use of Optiscaler. War Thunder DX12 already supports FSR 3.1. Make it happen AMD.

 

[RejZoR]

Hoping to see the FSR 4 support grow even faster, especially in multiplayer games where anti-cheat prevents the use of Optiscaler. War Thunder DX12 already supports FSR 3.1. Make it happen AMD.

Good thing is, most new games coming out are based on Unreal Engine which natively supports FSR4 now. Marvel Rivals was the first game to support FSR4 and Oblivion Remaster came with support for it out of the box too. Issue are existing games where devs take so god damn long to update. Or never... And I even understand if game is not actively supported anymore, I don't understand games like Overwatch 2 which is very much actively developed and they can't be bothered updating ancient FSR 2.2 to FSR 4. But they are happy for as long as their skins shop is fully stocked up and operational. Good to see The Finals finally updated, though their anti-cheat is moronic, bitching about ANY Autohotkey running in background. Like, who is cheating with Autohotkey? The only game bitching about it. Heh. Anyway...

 

[Luminescent]

Not one crash since i got the 9070 xt, drivers are excellent for now.
Also, finished Jedi survivor with Optiscaler FSR4 installed, DLSS inputs, great image quality and great game, now playing cyberpunk 2077 ( never played it ) also with optiscaler/FSR4 installed, great image quality and great game.
I guess i should thank Nvidia for making machine learning upscaling possible and investing so much in cyberpunk 2077 to look this great.

 

[_roman_]

Not one crash since i got the 9070 xt,

finished Jedi survivor

Star Wars jedi survivor crashed a lot with my Powercolor 7800XT hellhound in windows 11 pro with a ryzen 7600x with 2x32Gib DRAM with a KC3000 C: drive. With many different windows 11 pro amd gpu drivers.

Try to tab out to desktop. Try to run it with powersaving amd feature around 45-50 fps.

Using the spaceship quite often crashed the game

that game was one of the few games which crashed, crashed a lot, and crashed for months, doing the same inputs.

At that point of time the game was very old and outdated. A free giveaway AMD-rewards "crash" game for amd product purchase.

Game graphics were bad. Soldiers spawned below the sand in the desert several times and tried to attack me. They were outside of the game map. Game mechanics bad. Game is boring. Visuals are bad. Raytracing - i did not really saw any difference with or without, except higher power usage according to the windows amd gpu driver on screen display in game.

a game where they did not had any money. Sudden end that's it when you fly to another planet. Bad explanation in game.
95% finished as some stuff is hard to trigger or find the last few percentage.

 

[Luminescent]

Star Wars jedi survivor crashed a lot with my Powercolor 7800XT hellhound in windows 11 pro with a ryzen 7600x with 2x32Gib DRAM with a KC3000 C: drive. With many different windows 11 pro amd gpu drivers.

I played it now after many years of patches and fixes, for my taste the graphics were amazing, i enjoyed the game.
As for ray tracing is true, not much difference except for water reflections and maybe transparency, also put a cap on FPS to 60fps as i don't have a high refresh rate monitor, at 1440p with fsr4 quality all epic and ray tracing i had like 90-100W average board power consumption, and that is on Koboh wich is very GPU intensive.

 

[Fluffmeister]

I'm still a Radeon n00b, silly question but I'm still on 25.3.1 WHQL, do you chaps install right over the previous drivers or do you feel compelled to DDU each time. Not bothered with the last two betas as the drivers have been solid and I've experienced no real issues so far.

 

[Athlonite]

I'm still a Radeon n00b, silly question but I'm still on 25.3.1 WHQL, do you chaps install right over the previous drivers or do you feel compelled to DDU each time. Not bothered with the last two betas as the drivers have been solid and I've experienced no real issues so far.

If you've been having problems even minor one with the previous driver it's usually a good idea to DDU it before installing a new version as it cleans out any file that could have been causing the problem but if haven't been suffering with problems I usually just install over the top if I then start to get problems it's direct to DDU and a reinstall of the driver just to make sure

 

[Denver]

I'm still a Radeon n00b, silly question but I'm still on 25.3.1 WHQL, do you chaps install right over the previous drivers or do you feel compelled to DDU each time. Not bothered with the last two betas as the drivers have been solid and I've experienced no real issues so far.

Well, I've always used the update tool built into the driver. No problems so far. But I skip the beta versions.

 

[ThomasK]

No problems with the new driver so far, but I wish Amd added more FSR4 supported games.

 

[W3RN3R]

I'm still a Radeon n00b, silly question but I'm still on 25.3.1 WHQL, do you chaps install right over the previous drivers or do you feel compelled to DDU each time. Not bothered with the last two betas as the drivers have been solid and I've experienced no real issues so far.

I have always updated my drivers through adrenalin software directly, no issues. No need for DDU, when running the amd adrenalin installer just check the factory reset option if you want a clean install. Optional, before doing anything, under settings export snap settings, if you don't want to reconfigure all your custom settings after a clean factory install.

 

[santis]

• Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing The Last of Us Part 2.

Unplayable with Aorus RX 9070XT. 40 days since game came out... come on AMD!

 

[Makaveli]

I'm still a Radeon n00b, silly question but I'm still on 25.3.1 WHQL, do you chaps install right over the previous drivers or do you feel compelled to DDU each time. Not bothered with the last two betas as the drivers have been solid and I've experienced no real issues so far.

I do over top.

I only use DDU or AMD cleanup util if I had an issue or i've been on the same driver for months and skipped a whole bunch of them.

 

[Event Horizon]

Good thing is, most new games coming out are based on Unreal Engine which natively supports FSR4 now. Marvel Rivals was the first game to support FSR4 and Oblivion Remaster came with support for it out of the box too. Issue are existing games where devs take so god damn long to update. Or never... And I even understand if game is not actively supported anymore, I don't understand games like Overwatch 2 which is very much actively developed and they can't be bothered updating ancient FSR 2.2 to FSR 4. But they are happy for as long as their skins shop is fully stocked up and operational. Good to see The Finals finally updated, though their anti-cheat is moronic, bitching about ANY Autohotkey running in background. Like, who is cheating with Autohotkey? The only game bitching about it. Heh. Anyway...

Things may improve after AMD releases the FSR 4 SDK. Games will have FSR 4 out of the box without the need for the driver override, and Vulkan games will be able to support it too. I don't know why it's taking them so long to release the SDK. Developers sticking with FSR 2.2 is also criminal.

Every current FSR 4 supported game is actually an FSR 3.1 game that has been whitelisted by the driver. I wish we could override that whitelist as it doesn't seem that their whitelisting counts for much.

 

[Luminescent]

• Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing The Last of Us Part 2.

Unplayable with Aorus RX 9070XT. 40 days since game came out... come on AMD!

I only played Last of Us Part 2 after Joel dies and maybe 1 hour forward into the story, no crash but also no crazy overclocks.
I have the Gigabyte gaming OC 9070 xt and a very very old install of windows 10.
You must be the 0.001% who has some combination of hardware or software that results in this.

 

[santis]

I only played Last of Us Part 2 after Joel dies and maybe 1 hour forward into the story, no crash but also no crazy overclocks.
I have the Gigabyte gaming OC 9070 xt and a very very old install of windows 10.
You must be the 0.001% who has some combination of hardware or software that results in this.

SPOILER ALERT! LOL
I actually played past Joel´s but started crashing after Ellie and Dina go on horseback towards Seattle...
I´m watching the show but didn´t play the game on PS so no spoilers please!
Win11 Pro with all the updates, latest Adrenaline except todays, will try them for sure but it´s still under Known Issues...

 

[RejZoR]

Things may improve after AMD releases the FSR 4 SDK. Games will have FSR 4 out of the box without the need for the driver override, and Vulkan games will be able to support it too. I don't know why it's taking them so long to release the SDK. Developers sticking with FSR 2.2 is also criminal.

Every current FSR 4 supported game is actually an FSR 3.1 game that has been whitelisted by the driver. I wish we could override that whitelist as it doesn't seem that their whitelisting counts for much.

Though it's weird with Marvel Rivals and Oblivion Remaster. FSR4 is actually a selection in the game settings, but if you disable FSR4 "override" upgrade in drivers, it also disappears in the game. Which is a bit weird, but ultimately I don't care for as long as I get FSR4 one way or the other.

 

[Luminescent]

Win11 Pro with all the updates, latest Adrenaline except todays, will try them for sure but it´s still under Known Issues...

Windows 11 might be the culprit, i remember last year they found some windows 11 installations degrade AMD ryzen cpu performance

Windows 10, no problems, i remember seeing kitguru saying "Microsoft did AMD dirty" it was around some cpu launch.
So yeah, having an AMD system with up to date drivers and operating systems is gambling with your systems stability.
I believe neither Microsoft or Sony want AMD to succeed, they need them to be cheap for consoles and other silicon needs they have, Nvidia doesn't give 2 fuc...s about Microsoft, Sony, Apple and Intel, whenever they crossed paths Nvidia quickly reminded them they are not AMD and cut ties, they are not cheap and they can't steal.

 

[Event Horizon]

Though it's weird with Marvel Rivals and Oblivion Remaster. FSR4 is actually a selection in the game settings, but if you disable FSR4 "override" upgrade in drivers, it also disappears in the game. Which is a bit weird, but ultimately I don't care for as long as I get FSR4 one way or the other.

Nice! AMD can update FSR 3.1 or 4 at a later date and those games will automatically use the latest version. Less reliance on studios updating their games can only be a good thing.

In the meantime it looks like they updated the FSR 3.1 SDK, including a tweak to reduce ghosting: https://videocardz.com/pixel/amd-re...ring-fsr-3-1-4-with-reduced-upscaler-ghosting

Personally, I find flickering to be way more distracting than disocclusion ghosting.