AMD Crimson 16.2 Beta

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 Highlights

    AMD has partnered with Stardock in association with Oxide to bring gamers Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2.0 the first benchmark to release with DirectX 12 benchmarking capabilities such as Asynchronous Compute, multi-GPU and multi-threaded command buffer Re-ordering. Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 is optimized to support this exciting new release.
    The SteamVR Performance Test: we are pleased to report that our Radeon R9 390, Nano, and Fury series GPUs are all able to achieve 'VR Recommended' status, the highest achievable level of experience possible. In addition to that, our affinity multi-GPU feature is already showing significant performance uplift over a single GPU on Radeon cards in the aforementioned benchmark
    Performance and quality improvements for
        Rise of the Tomb Raider
        Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2
    Crossfire Profiles available for
        The Division
        XCOM 2

Resolved Issues

    A black screen/TDR error may be encountered when booting a  system with Intel + AMD graphics and an HDMI monitor connected
    Choppy gameplay may be experienced when both AMD Freesync and AMD Crossfire are both enabled
    Display corruption may be observed after keeping system idle for some time
    Fallout 4 - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire enabled
    Fallout 4 - Foliage/water may ripple/stutter when game is launched in High/Ultra settings mode
    Fallout 4 - Screen tearing in systems with both AMD Freesync and AMD Crossfire enabled if game is left idle for a short period of time
    Fallout 4 - Thumbnails may flicker or disappear while scrolling the Perk levels page
    Far Cry 4 - Stuttering may be observed when launching the game with AMD Freesync and AMD Crossfire enabled
    FRTC options are displayed on some unsupported laptop configurations with Intel CPU's and AMD GPU's
    Radeon Settings may sometimes fails to launch with a "Context Creation Error" message
    Rise of the Tomb Raider - Corruption can be observed at some locations during gameplay
    Rise of the Tomb Raider - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations when the game is left idle in AMD Crossfire  mode under Windows 7
    Rise of the Tomb Raider - Game may intermittently crash or hang when launched with very high settings and AA is set to SMAA at 4K resolution
    Rise of the Tomb Raider - Lara Croft's hair may flicker in some locations if the Esc key is pressed
    Rise of Tomb Raider - A TDR error may be observed with some AMD Radeon 300 Series products after launching the "Geothermal Valley" mission
    The AMD Overdrive  memory clock slider does not show original clock values if memory speeds are overclocked
    World of Warcraft runs extremely slowly in quad crossfire at high resolutions

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"
    Star Wars: Battlefront - Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
    Cannot enable AMD Crossfire with some dual GPU AMD Radeon HD 59xx and HD 79xx series products
    Fallout 4 - In game stutter may be experienced if the game is launched with AMD Crossfire enabled
    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
    Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption