AMD Software Adrenalin 24.3.1 WHQL Released

[btarunr]

AMD today released the latest version of its Adrenalin graphics drivers. Version 24.3.1 WHQL comes with optimization for Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition, and Outpost: Infinity Siege. The drivers also add AMD HYPR-Tune optimizations for Dragon's Dogma 2, Diablo IV, Ghostrunner 2, and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

The drivers address a fairly large number of issues. To begin with, excessive micro-stutter after enabling AFMF for select games has been fixed. Driver timeout issues with Helldivers 2 and Starcraft II on RX 7900 series GPUs has been fixed. Excessive loading times with World of Warcraft (DX12) on some GPUs has been fixed. A purple tinge noticed in Dying Light 2 Stay Human Reloaded Edition with Radeon Boost enabled, has been fixed. Invisible or missing textures on some characters with Cossacks 3 has been fixed. Incorrect memory tuning limit reported for the RX 7900 GRE has been fixed. Also fixed is a shader caching failure for Windows usernames containing accented characters. Grab the driver from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: AMD Software Adrenalin 24.3.1 WHQL



New Game Support

• Dragon's Dogma 2
• Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition
• Outpost: Infinity Siege

Expanded HYPR-Tune Support

• Dragon's Dogma 2
• Diablo IV
• Ghostrunner 2
• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Fixed Issues

• Excessive micro stutter may be intermittently experienced after enabling AMD Fluid Motion Frames for select games.
• Improvement to intermittent driver timeout or application crash experienced while playing HELLDIVERS 2 on AMD Radeon RX 7900 series GPUs.
• Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Starcraft II on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
• Improvements to reduce initial loading times while playing World of Warcraft with DirectX 12 API on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 6800.
• Purple corruption may be observed while playing Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition with Radeon Boost and ray tracing enabled.
• Some characters may appear invisible or have missing textures while playing Cossacks 3.
• Flickering lights may be observed while playing Space Engineers in certain indoor environments.
• The maximum memory tuning limit may be incorrectly reported on AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics products.
• Shader caching may fail for Windows usernames containing accented characters.
• FPS performance metric may incorrectly report values while a game is minimized.
• GPU Acceleration may be missing/greyed out in Adobe Premiere Pro on some hybrid graphics systems.
• Performance drop may be observed while using some DirectML workloads in Topaz AI.

Known Issues

• Intermittent driver timeout or application crash may be experienced while playing HELLDIVERS 2 on dual monitor setups on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
• Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing Lords of the Fallen and entering certain areas on Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs. Resolution targeted for 24.4.1
• Artifacts may appear in certain mud environments while playing SnowRunner on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 6800. Resolution targeted for 24.4.1
• AMD SmartAccess Video may be incorrectly reported as "Available" on some systems with the Parsec Virtual Display Driver installed. Resolution targeted for 24.5.1
• Audio and video may intermittently become out of sync while recording using the AV1 codec in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition. Resolution targeted for Q3

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[Minus Infinity]

I await reports from AMD beta testers aka the general public.

 

[adilazimdegilx]

• The maximum memory tuning limit may be incorrectly reported on AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics products.

Looking forward to see how this affects OC performance of 7900 GRE.

 

[Makaveli]

Been using them for a few hours now seems fine.

 

[TheGuruStud]

I await reports from AMD beta testers aka the general public.

kektek user confirmed

 

[ARF]

I await reports from AMD beta testers aka the general public.

If so, I will skip. Is it necessary to install every release, sometimes they are several a month?
I will wait something with good news about performance improvements in percentages.
That is 24.12.1 or 25.1.1, etc.

 

[Broken Processor]

I'm terrified of installing any 24.x.x driver. Let me know when it's safe to take the pillow off my face.

 

[aktpu]

HFW support ready for today? My body is ready

 

[ARF]

I'm terrified of installing any 24.x.x driver.

Have you sent a bug report? What do they answer? What are your problems?

I see one problem - the lackluster Counter - Strike 2 performance which simply doesn't work on any RDNA 3 Radeon 7000 series GPU.
They need 30-40% performance improvement in this title:

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse Review

The Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse emerges as the best GRE model released today, offering exceptional value at AMD's MSRP of $550. Outperforming the RX 4070 Super in raster, it operates whisper-quiet, catering to gamers and enthusiasts seeking top-tier performance without exceeding their budget.

www.techpowerup.com

Because in other titles it seems fine:

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse Review

The Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse emerges as the best GRE model released today, offering exceptional value at AMD's MSRP of $550. Outperforming the RX 4070 Super in raster, it operates whisper-quiet, catering to gamers and enthusiasts seeking top-tier performance without exceeding their budget.

www.techpowerup.com

 

[windwhirl]

. Is it necessary to install every release, sometimes they are several a month?

Nah, most people should be fine installing a new release only if they need the driver support for whatever game is new

 

[Beginner Macro Device]

The maximum memory tuning limit may be incorrectly reported on AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics products.

Does this mean they haven't even considered increasing the core frequency limit? I mean, high-end products like Sapphire Nitro+ are overbuilt for ~2.8 GHz and can go all the way up to ~3.05 GHz but they are artificially limited in this regard. Of course the VRAM is butchered harder here but still extremely meh.

 

[Veseleil]

Oh well, it can't be worse than a buggy mess that is the previous one, right?

 

[Ferrum Master]

Does this mean they haven't even considered increasing the core frequency limit? I mean, high-end products like Sapphire Nitro+ are overbuilt for ~2.8 GHz and can go all the way up to ~3.05 GHz but they are artificially limited in this regard. Of course the VRAM is butchered harder here but still extremely meh.

This was originally a China only card, and those cards are hard locked in every department. It actually was not a driver bug but intended setting. As this is a weird product and it somehow launched outside China everyone forgot un to turn of China market driver limitations.

 

[Beginner Macro Device]

It actually was not a driver bug but intended setting.

End users are screwed up regardless, it quantifies identically no matter the reason.

As a potential user I'm curious as to what I can possibly achieve with this GPU. If core frequency limit stays the same it's still a questionable value product (outside Russia, it can differ due to pricing of course; I personally don't mind explosive levels of TDP since electricity is almost free and my PSU is a kW Gold sample).

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

I'm terrified of installing any 24.x.x driver. Let me know when it's safe to take the pillow off my face.

I have 24.1.1 and it's OK. I'm just worried about the ones after 24.1.1, but before 24.4.1.

 

[i486]

Have you sent a bug report? What do they answer? What are your problems?

I see one problem - the lackluster Counter - Strike 2 performance which simply doesn't work on any RDNA 3 Radeon 7000 series GPU.
They need 30-40% performance improvement in this title:

View attachment 339941

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse Review

The Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse emerges as the best GRE model released today, offering exceptional value at AMD's MSRP of $550. Outperforming the RX 4070 Super in raster, it operates whisper-quiet, catering to gamers and enthusiasts seeking top-tier performance without exceeding their budget.

www.techpowerup.com

Because in other titles it seems fine:

View attachment 339942

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse Review

The Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse emerges as the best GRE model released today, offering exceptional value at AMD's MSRP of $550. Outperforming the RX 4070 Super in raster, it operates whisper-quiet, catering to gamers and enthusiasts seeking top-tier performance without exceeding their budget.

www.techpowerup.com

This might be because TPU tests at max settings, which presumably means MSAA x8. I'm not sure if there's any concrete documentation on this, but allegedly AMD dropped hardware support for MSAA x8 with RDNA 3 since not many modern games use it. Dropping to x4 should see the expected results.

 

[maxli86]

The last AMD Driver gave me headaches, unstable and frequent crash.
Not sure about this release if not I will just stick to last year 23.X drivers.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

The last AMD Driver gave me headaches, unstable and frequent crash.
Not sure about this release if not I will just stick to last year 23.X drivers.

Before I wiped the SSD and installed 11 23H2 early last month, the latest I used was 23.2.1.

24.1.1 is working well for me, so far.

 

[Makaveli]

Have you sent a bug report? What do they answer? What are your problems?

I see one problem - the lackluster Counter - Strike 2 performance which simply doesn't work on any RDNA 3 Radeon 7000 series GPU.
They need 30-40% performance improvement in this title:

View attachment 339941

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse Review

The Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse emerges as the best GRE model released today, offering exceptional value at AMD's MSRP of $550. Outperforming the RX 4070 Super in raster, it operates whisper-quiet, catering to gamers and enthusiasts seeking top-tier performance without exceeding their budget.

www.techpowerup.com

Because in other titles it seems fine:

View attachment 339942

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse Review

The Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 GRE Pulse emerges as the best GRE model released today, offering exceptional value at AMD's MSRP of $550. Outperforming the RX 4070 Super in raster, it operates whisper-quiet, catering to gamers and enthusiasts seeking top-tier performance without exceeding their budget.

www.techpowerup.com

??

I play this at 144hz locked and it runs fine.

 

[Denver]

??

I play this at 144hz locked and it runs fine.

If I'm not mistaken, the "low framerate" is because the TPU tests with MSAA 8X

 

[Lew Zealand]

This might be because TPU tests at max settings, which presumably means MSAA x8. I'm not sure if there's any concrete documentation on this, but allegedly AMD dropped hardware support for MSAA x8 with RDNA 3 since not many modern games use it. Dropping to x4 should see the expected results.

I hadn't heard of this before. OK I need to see if this works (OK doesn't work lol) on my 7700 XT as I usually use 4xMSAA in Forza Horizon 4 but I think it has an 8X option.

 

[Keullo-e]

??

I play this at 144hz locked and it runs fine.

TPU tests are always ran at max settings. Even my 6700 XT runs CS2 fine at 4K as I play at low (like I've always been playing).

 

[Tropick]

24.3.1 is working fine for me so far. Did a factory reset install + clear user settings, and dumped the shader cache afterwards. Got everything set back up again and so far so good. Looks like they're doing a pretty good job of hammering out all the bugs they introduced with the original 24.x.x release. Have not tried frame generation yet.

EDIT: After continuing to mess around with the new driver it seems like the "VRAM auto overclock" is now setting a target of 2450MHz whereas before it would set it at 2400MHz. Applied this 2450MHz number to my custom OC profile and it seems stable where before it would typically not be. Could someone else with a Navi 21 KXTX die try and reproduce this? I've not seen this behavior from a driver before and am a bit confused as to how this would be possible.

 

[Minus Infinity]

24.3.1 is working fine for me so far. Did a factory reset install + clear user settings, and dumped the shader cache afterwards. Got everything set back up again and so far so good. Looks like they're doing a pretty good job of hammering out all the bugs they introduced with the original 24.x.x release. Have not tried frame generation yet.

EDIT: After continuing to mess around with the new driver it seems like the "VRAM auto overclock" is now setting a target of 2450MHz whereas before it would set it at 2400MHz. Applied this 2450MHz number to my custom OC profile and it seems stable where before it would typically not be. Could someone else with a Navi 21 KXTX die try and reproduce this? I've not seen this behavior from a driver before and am a bit confused as to how this would be possible.

See this is why I wait, for this sort of feedback. Sounds promising. I might possibly consider moving from 23.xxx drivers.

 

[R-T-B]

Working fine here, on my 7900 XTX main rig, and also my thinkpad T14s with a 6900 XT egpu.