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Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 Highlights
Updated Crossfire Profiles available for
Support for
Performance and Quality improvements for
Rise of the Tomb Raider(2)
Up to 16% on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Series vs AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.
- Gears of War Ultimate Edition(3)
- Up to 60% on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X series vs AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1
- Up to 44% on AMD Radeon R9 380 series vs AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1
Vulkan Support(1): Vulkan is the successor to OpenGL and a descendant of AMD's Mantle. Vulkan is a powerful "low-overhead" graphics API that gives software developers deep control over the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of Radeon GPUs and multi-core CPUs. More information on Vulkan can be found at https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/.
Per-Game Display Scaling: A new feature introduced in Radeon Settings that allows per game Display Scaling to be set within the Radeon Settings Gaming tab under "Profile Options".
Language Menu: A new feature introduced in Radeon Settings that allows the end user to select their preferred language from a drop down menu under the "Preferences -> Language" tab.
Two Display Eyefinity: Two Display Eyefinity is now an available option under the Eyefinity tab in Radeon Settings.
AMD Crossfire Status Indicator: A new feature in Radeon Settings that allows users to toggle an AMD Crossfire status indicator on their screen when running in AMD Crossfire mode.
Updated Social Links: New Social links are now available for Radeon Settings home page and have also updated based on geographical region.
Power Efficiency Toggle: A new feature introduced in the Radeon Settings Gaming tab for select AMD Radeon 300 series and AMD Radeon Fury X available under "Global Options". This allows the user to disable some power efficiency optimizations.
AMD XConnect technology: This driver provides initial support for external GPU enclosures configured with Radeon R9 300 Series GPUs are now supported over Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) connections. AMD XConnect technology additionally provides plug'n'play support and an integrated management interface. Base system must have BIOS support for external GPUs (e.g. Razer Blade Stealth).
Resolved Issues
- Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption (Fixed with new Power Efficiency feature toggled to off)
- Gears of War Ultimate Edition - Random freezes may be experienced during gameplay
- Ashes of the Singularity 2.0 Benchmark now supports DirectFlip
- XCOM 2 flickering textures may be experienced at various game locations
- Rise of the Tomb Raider - The game may randomly crash on launch if Tessellation is enabled
Known Issues
- A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"
- Installing via command line may not work for some users. As a workaround please use the default GUI installer
- League of Legends may experience some graphical corruption on characters death animation in AMD Crossfire mode
- Rift may experience a hang when playing with FRTC and V-Sync enabled. As a work around users are suggested to disable V-Sync
- Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 may experience some flickering in AMD Crossfire mode
- Rise of the Tomb Raider may experience graphical corruption in some cinematics
- The Division may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire mode
- Star Wars Battlefront users may experience flicker in AMD Crossfire mode on battle and tutorial loading screens
- Star Wars Battlefront users may experience ground texture issues in certain locations on Survival Hoth missions
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