AMD has launched updated drivers for its GPUs adding support and optimisations for two games while ironing out a number of issues.
Adrenalin 23.2.2 sees official support for the recently released Atomic Heart and Company of Heroes 3, with the latter receiving up to a 14 per cent performance increase at 4K resolution using RX 6000 and 7000 cards.
AMD also took this opportunity to squash bugs such as the limited maximum encode bitrate on certain apps, crashes in Hitman 3 when ray tracing is enabled, blank screen when selecting 144Hz refresh rate on the Valve Index, and performance drops in some DirectX 11 games.
As expected, some bugs are still pending to be dealt with, the most annoying of which are the elevated idle power of RX 7000 GPUs at high resolutions, and the stuttering encountered when playing while watching videos on extended display configurations (multi-monitors).
These drivers are compatible with Radeon graphics cards as old as the RX 400 series – which is a good thing – even though apart from game support, the rest is mainly targeting RX 6000 and 7000 GPUs.
The full list of changes can be found below:
Support for:
- Atomic Heart
- Company of Heroes 3
- Up to 13% increase in performance for Company of Heroes 3 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.2 on the Radeon RX 7900XTX, versus the previous software driver version 23.2.1 RS-528
- Up to 14% increase in performance for Company of Heroes 3 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.2 on the Radeon RX 7900XT, versus the previous software driver version 23.2.1 RS-529
- Up to 9% increase in performance for Company of Heroes 3 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.2 on the Radeon RX 6950XT, versus the previous software driver version 23.2.1 RS-530
- Up to 9% increase in performance for Company of Heroes 3 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.2 on the Radeon RX 6800XT, versus the previous software driver version 23.2.1 RS-531
- Up to 7% increase in performance for Company of Heroes 3 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.2 on the Radeon RX 6650XT, versus the previous software driver version 23.2.1 RS-532
Fixed Issues
- Corruption may be briefly observed when moving Netflix video between displays or minimize-to-fullscreen on some AMD Products such as AMD Ryzen 7 6800U.
- Maximum encode bitrate is limited to 100Mbps for certain applications.
- AMD Bug Report Tool pop-up or system hang may be observed after driver upgrade on some hybrid graphics notebooks.
- Application crash may be observed while playing Hitman 3 with ray tracing settings enabled.
- Valve Index® VR headset may show a blank screen with 144Hz refresh rate setting on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Certain videos played with Movies and TV may briefly show corruption when moving the window between displays on some AMD Graphics Products such as AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT.
- Situational performance drop may be observed in DirectX® 11 based games on Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs using Ryzen processors.
Known Issues
- High idle power has situationally been observed when using select high-resolution and high refresh rate displays on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Video stuttering or performance drop may be observed during gameplay plus video playback with some extended display configurations on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Application crash may be observed while opening Premium Gold Packs in EA SPORTS FIFA 23.
- Some virtual reality games or apps may experience lower-than-expected performance on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Brief display corruption may occur when switching between video and game windows on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon RX 6700 XT.
- Metrics overlay may intermittently re-size to 50% after gameplay.
- Corruption may be observed in Returnal in certain scenes with ray tracing enabled on Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs.
