AMD Software Adrenalin 25.6.1 WHQL Released

btarunr · Thursday at 4:55 PM

AMD today released the latest version of its Radeon Adrenalin graphics drivers. Version 25.6.1 WHQL comes with support for the new Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card that launched today, as well as the Radeon AI PRO R9700 accelerator. The drivers also add optimization for "Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remaster." Over a dozen new games get official FSR 4 support, including Deadzone: Rogue, F1 25, Frostpunk 2, Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, Lords of the Fallen, Planetaries, QANGA, Rem Survival, Runescape: Dragonwilds, Star Wars Outlaws, Steel Seed, Stellar Blade, Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O, and Wild Assault.

The drivers also expand support for Vulkan API, with the addition of four new Vulkan extensions, including VK_KHR_video_maintenance1, VK_KHR_video_encode_queue, VK_KHR_video_encode_h264, and VK_KHR_video_encode_h265. The company addressed three issues with 25.6.1 WHQL. To begin with, quality and performance selections being reversed in the UI for Radeon Boost has been fixed. Display artifacts or corruption noticed with "Battlefield" on Radeon RX 7900 series has been fixed. Lower than expected performance in "Le Mans Ultimate" with RX 9070 series GPUs has been fixed.

DOWNLOAD: AMD Software Adrenalin 25.6.1 WHQL

New Product Support

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

New Game Support

Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remaster

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

Deadzone: Rogue
F1 25
Frostpunk 2
Legacy: Steel & Sorcery
Lords of the Fallen
Planetaries
QANGA
Rem Survival
Runescape: Dragonwilds
Star Wars Outlaws
Steel Seed
Stellar Blade
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O
Wild Assault

Expanded Vulkan Extension Support

VK_KHR_video_maintenance1
VK_KHR_video_encode_queue
VK_KHR_video_encode_h264
VK_KHR_video_encode_h265

Fixed Issues and Improvements

Quality and Performance selections may be reversed in the user interface for AMD Radeon Boost.
Artifacts or corruption may appear while playing Battlefield on Radeon RX 7000 series graphics products.
Lower than expected performance may be observed while playing Le Mans Ultimate with Radeon RX 9070 series graphics products.

Known Issues

Stutter and lower than expected performance may be observed when using alt-tab and streaming to Discord with multiple monitors.
Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Marvel Spider-Man 2 with Ray Tracing enabled on Radeon RX 9060 XT.
Intermittent application crash may be observed when first launching The Last of Us Part 1 on Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics products.
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 on some AMD Radeon Graphics Products such as the Radeon RX 7000 series.
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 V on Radeon RX 7000 series graphics products.
Stutter may be observed while playing Call of Duty: Warzone Season 03 "Verdansk" map on some AMD Graphics Products.
Stutter and lower than expected performance may be observed while playing 4K resolution YouTube videos in Chromium. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to play videos in full screen as a temporary workaround.

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Makaveli · Thursday at 5:05 PM

Installed these about an hour ago no issues and looking good so far.

noel_fs · Thursday at 7:35 PM

been using it for 3 hours and so far no driver timeouts or blackscreen flicker like in previous versions, finally, rdna drivers have been a wild ride

Braegnok · Thursday at 7:40 PM

RX 9070 XT sensors not showing in HWiNFO with 25.6.1 on my system.

25.6.1

25.5.2

Edit:
Also GPUz Sensors Memory Controller Load not showing with 25.6.1

25.5.2

ARF · Thursday at 9:09 PM

Makaveli said:
Installed these about an hour ago no issues and looking good so far.

I hope they don't release drivers with issues. :banghead:

I see:

Lower than expected performance may be observed while playing Le Mans Ultimate with Radeon RX 9070 series graphics products.

When will they fix the lower than normal performance in Counter-Strike 2 ? :kookoo:

Are RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 broken or what?

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Makaveli · Thursday at 10:24 PM

ARF said:
I hope they don't release drivers with issues.

I see:

Lower than expected performance may be observed while playing Le Mans Ultimate with Radeon RX 9070 series graphics products.

When will they fix the lower than normal performance in Counter-Strike 2 ?
Are RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 broken or what?

View attachment 402685

Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT Nitro+ OC Review - The Fastest RX 9060 XT

The Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT Nitro+ OC stands out with a large factory overclock, making it the fastest card tested today. Its cooling solution is equally remarkable, achieving virtually inaudible noise levels even under full gaming load, and temperatures are still excellent.

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I play CS2 on a regular with my 7900XTX what performance issues?

Guwapo77 · Thursday at 11:20 PM

ARF said:
I hope they don't release drivers with issues.

I see:

Lower than expected performance may be observed while playing Le Mans Ultimate with Radeon RX 9070 series graphics products.

When will they fix the lower than normal performance in Counter-Strike 2 ?
Are RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 broken or what?

View attachment 402685

Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT Nitro+ OC Review - The Fastest RX 9060 XT

The Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT Nitro+ OC stands out with a large factory overclock, making it the fastest card tested today. Its cooling solution is equally remarkable, achieving virtually inaudible noise levels even under full gaming load, and temperatures are still excellent.

www.techpowerup.com

I see why you asked...now I have to go back and see what's the deal on the 9070XT review.

Looks like an architecture thing to me. The 7900XT is pulling 135.8 FPS, I won't say its broken; however, this does not look good. 5090 pulls 348.3 FPS.

Craptacular · Friday at 4:38 AM

Makaveli said:
I play CS2 on a regular with my 7900XTX what performance issues?

He is referring to the RDNA 4 performance issues on CS2. RDNA 4 runs like crap on CS2 compared to both RDNA 3 and Nvidia.

Launcestonian · Friday at 4:52 AM

No performance increases for Starfield, I'll give these a miss.

Tomorrow · Friday at 9:55 AM

Launcestonian said:
No performance increases for Starfield, I'll give these a miss.

Not a priority given that that there are far better games that could use perf increases.

noel_fs said:
been using it for 3 hours and so far no driver timeouts or blackscreen flicker like in previous versions, finally, rdna drivers have been a wild ride

I had no such problems with previous month's release on 9070 XT.

Jtuck9 · Friday at 10:46 AM

Interested to see the impact of the technical preview drivers on something like Stalker 2, or whether to wait out improvements on GSC's end (hardware ray tracing). Add Silent Hill 2 to the list given f is on the horizon!

noel_fs · Friday at 11:34 AM

Tomorrow said:
Not a priority given that that there are far better games that could use perf increases.

I had no such problems with previous month's release on 9070 XT.

1. do you have mpo disabled?
2. do you have a high resolution or really high refresh rate monitor/screen?

im guessing the answer is not for the second one

anyway, im not sure if rdna 4 was affected, probably wasnt and disabling mpo ""fixed"" it.

ThomasK · Friday at 3:36 PM

Been running the new drivers since yesterday, without any issues.

Tomorrow · Friday at 3:38 PM

noel_fs said:
1. do you have mpo disabled?
2. do you have a high resolution or really high refresh rate monitor/screen?

im guessing the answer is not for the second one

anyway, im not sure if rdna 4 was affected, probably wasnt and disabling mpo ""fixed"" it.

1. I haven't touched MPO since moving to AMD. I assumed MPO registry key was vendor specific. With Nvidia it was easier to disable via NVCleanstall. I haven't seen the reason to do it on AMD.
2. It's in my system specs. 1440p 200Hz. Based on your system specs you are on 4K 120Hz?

Makaveli · Friday at 4:20 PM

Braegnok said:
RX 9070 XT sensors not showing in HWiNFO with 25.6.1 on my system.

25.6.1
View attachment 402669

25.5.2
View attachment 402670

Edit:
Also GPUz Sensors Memory Controller Load not showing with 25.6.1
View attachment 402704

25.5.2
View attachment 402705

It shows fine for me on this driver.

Just have a twitch stream open in Edge.

Also no issue with HWINFO maybe a bug specific to RDNA 4

Tomorrow · Friday at 4:40 PM

I can confirm sensor reporting issue on RDNA 4 with 25.6.1. Several critical sensor values are missing. Specifically GPU Hot Spot Temperature (Max), Total Board Power (TBP) and GPU Power Max in HwInfo64. Memory controller value in GPU-Z showed NaN when is tried to see min, avg or max values.
Rolling back to 25.5.1 fixed the issue. Based on posts above 25.5.2 should be fine too.

Divide Overflow · Friday at 9:03 PM

Braegnok said:
Also GPUz Sensors Memory Controller Load not showing with 25.6.1
View attachment 402704

I'm getting weird Memory Controller Load values in GPU-Z on 25.6.1.

Fluffmeister · Friday at 9:27 PM

Yeah I would say 65534% falls into the category of.... weird.

Didn't realise AMD Install Manager had updated me to these, but so far nothing out of the ordinary, but I haven't gone into any monitoring software recently either. GPU-Z is telling me 2.66 has just dropped.

Nothing weird on my Nitro+:

ARF · Friday at 10:50 PM

This driver fixed the VRAM capacity on the RX 9070 series.

All previous drivers made the cards with only 15.5 GB of VRAM or 15 GB in Windows Settings About:

Braegnok · Saturday at 12:42 AM

Divide Overflow said:
I'm getting weird Memory Controller Load values in GPU-Z on 25.6.1.

View attachment 402816

I have sensor issue with 25.10.13.02 beta also,.. GPUz & HWiNFO sensors not showing.

Figured I would try the beta as is from another branch,..

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-FSR-TECH-PREVIEW.html

Edit:

HWiNFO V8.27-5750 resolves the sensor issues,.. all sensors are working now with Adrenalin 25.6.1 update :clap:

Launcestonian · Saturday at 1:21 AM

Tomorrow said:
Not a priority given that that there are far better games that could use perf increases.

....

"far better games".... :laugh:

much subjectiveness eh?

ARF · Saturday at 6:09 AM

GPU-Z is also buggy with Vega 8, the clock is reported with some wrong value there, too.

Tomorrow · Saturday at 6:20 AM

Launcestonian said:
"far better games".... much subjectiveness eh?

Is it`? Who exactly is asking for more Starfield? As far as everyone is concerned this game had it's shot and missed. Unless they pull a No Man's Sky type of comeback i think it will be quickly forgotten. Meanwhile as pointed out by other comments CS2 that is played by a lot of people is underperforming at the moment. Why would AMD devote limited resources to improving performance in Starfield that less than 5k players play (24h peak), compared to CS2 that roughly 1.6m players (24h peak) play?

Jtuck9 · Saturday at 7:56 AM

Tomorrow said:
Is it`? Who exactly is asking for more Starfield? As far as everyone is concerned this game had it's shot and missed. Unless they pull a No Man's Sky type of comeback i think it will be quickly forgotten. Meanwhile as pointed out by other comments CS2 that is played by a lot of people is underperforming at the moment. Why would AMD devote limited resources to improving performance in Starfield that less than 5k players play (24h peak), compared to CS2 that roughly 1.6m players (24h peak) play?

What were the player spikes like when that Shattered Space DLC released? Not sure if that is the sort of behaviour you want from a single player game however (from a Bethesdian point of view)...

Tomorrow · Saturday at 8:07 AM

Jtuck9 said:
What were the player spikes like when that Shattered Space DLC released? Not sure if that is the sort of behaviour you want from a single player game however (from a Bethesdian point of view)...

Not sure but Starfield all time peak is 330k to put things into perspective. Not sure if this occurred during the initial launch or after the DLC dropped.

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