Crimson Edition 16.1.1 Hotfix Release

[Silverforce11]

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-art...mson-Edition-16.1.1-Hotfix-Release-Notes.aspx

Highlights
Performance/Quality improvements and an AMD Crossfire™ profile is available for Rise of the Tomb Raider™
An AMD Crossfire™ profile is available for Fallout 4

Resolved Issues
[81915] Assassin's Creed Syndicate - Building textures may be missing on some AMD Freesync™ displays with VSync enabled
[82892] Display corruption may occur on systems with multiple display systems when they have been left idle for some time
[82926] Mordheim: City of the Damned – some loading screens may be very dark
[83032] Star Wars™: Battlefront – The sky rendering may be corrupted in some situations
[83832] Radeon Settings – AMD OverDrive™ Power setting changes on the secondary GPU are not immediately displayed. This is seen only on dual GPU graphics cards, such as the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990 and Radeon™ R9 295x2
[83833] Radeon Settings - AMD OverDrive™ clock gauge needles for the secondary GPU may be in wrong position when the system is idle and the secondary GPU is inactive
[83839] Some games may experience brightness flickering with AMD FreeSync™ enabled
[83940] AMD Radeon Additional Settings window will close if the help button is pressed on Japanese/Korean language setups
[83948] Corruption seen in video playback for M2TS format files via Windows® 10 Movie & TV application
[84199] Flickering textures experienced in Dota 2 when accessing the "Heroes" menu
[84428] Battlefield Hardline – A crash may occur when changing graphics settings from "Ultra" to "High" during gameplay
[85030] The screen may turn dark and colors may be corrupted after installing the driver on some AMD Crossfire™ setups
[85099] Custom game profiles are reset to defaults after system is restarted
[85142] HDMI audio lost when monitor enters sleep mode and are woken up
[85299] Black line corruption seen all along the edges of characters and menus in Game of Thrones™

 

[Silverforce11]

Bethesda also pushed through Fallout 4 patch 1.3 live on Steam as well.

Added HBAO+ and Weapon Debris Effects, more GameWorks but surprisingly AMD performance went up by 50% or more.

 

[grimpr]

I'm interested in gamegpu.ru's retests with those 2.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Crossfire is working on my dual 290X setup. Performance is up, but GPU usage and frame rates are still all over the place. Hoping another round of drivers and maybe an update to the game will fix it in a few weeks.

Bummed I spent cash on this on day one. I guess I learned my lesson.

 

[3DVagabond]

Crossfire is working on my dual 290X setup. Performance is up, but GPU usage and frame rates are still all over the place. Hoping another round of drivers and maybe an update to the game will fix it in a few weeks.

Bummed I spent cash on this on day one. I guess I learned my lesson.

FWIU the "frame rates all over the place" is both brands. Makes it not likely a driver issue. Although it could possibly be addressed with drivers.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

FWIU the "frame rates all over the place" is both brands. Makes it not likely a driver issue. Although it could possibly be addressed with drivers.

Got a source on the weird frame rate stuff? I thought it was largely related to AMD drivers, I hadn't heard too much complaining on the Nvidia side.

 

[tential]

I haven't had any issues here on my R9 290. I don't know what people are talking about. The game runs great at 1440p for me. With AMD adding crossfire profiles, I'm more interested in this game being retested now than ever. I really want to move to a crossfire build.

 

[Silverforce11]

Got a source on the weird frame rate stuff? I thought it was largely related to AMD drivers, I hadn't heard too much complaining on the Nvidia side.

Steam forum filled with tears from people who obviously did not learn about AAA titles and paying full price near release to beta test.

And yes, lots of SLI complaints, lots of 970 complaints in general, it stutters like crazy with very high textures even in single GPU.

 

[3DVagabond]

Got a source on the weird frame rate stuff? I thought it was largely related to AMD drivers, I hadn't heard too much complaining on the Nvidia side.

LINK

The game is VERY WEIRD in the sense that in gameplay scenes your FPS can be 30 on average and then when you look to the right all of the sudden it jumps up to 65 FPS. This happens throughout the game, we'll focus a bit more on the stringent segments in-game and that reflects and results into somewhat lower average FPS.

They don't mention that this has anything to do with a particular GPU. Just that the game is VERY WEIRD.

 

[AntonioHG]

Having all sorts of graphical corruption with Crossfire enabled in FO4. Tried verifying and clearing all my game settings. Guess it won't hurt to try reinstalling the drivers using DDU (again). Got an R9 290 and a 290x. Everything else works fine.

 

[Dygaza]

Seems when AMD finally got working crossfire profile out, game patch broke it.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29129357&postcount=10281

Adding a Known Issue to the 16.1.1 Hotfix driver release notes.

Known Issues
Fallout 4 - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire™ enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable AMD Crossfire™.

It's quite funny actually (sorry crossfire users), AMD works for working profile for couple of months, just to get their work nullfied by game update.

Well good thing about game update is, that it was supposed to bring huge performance upgrades especially for AMD users. So I quess it's a win/lose situation.

 

[AntonioHG]

Seems when AMD finally got working crossfire profile out, game patch broke it.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29129357&postcount=10281



It's quite funny actually (sorry crossfire users), AMD works for working profile for couple of months, just to get their work nullfied by game update.

Well good thing about game update is, that it was supposed to bring huge performance upgrades especially for AMD users. So I quess it's a win/lose situation.

Ah jeez. Figured it was something stupid like this, but I hoped not. I kind of gave up on FO4 since the game just didn't click with me after TW3 and I had DS2 to enjoy anyway. I just happened to turn FO4 on last night to take a break from DS2, lol, only to find see that it's still busted.

 

[Dygaza]

There was a hotfix today for the hotfix that fixed FO4 crossfire issue.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-art...mson-Edition-16.1.1-Hotfix-Release-Notes.aspx

Release is still labeled as 16.1.1

 

[Silverforce11]

[86690] Fallout 4 - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire™ enabled. The AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.1.1 Hotfix driver has been updated. Please download this driver once again and reinstall it to address this issue.

Yup, they hotfixed the hotfix driver because Bethesda's 1.3 broke CF (they would have optimized it for prior versions). This actually means the rendering engine has changed from prior versions as @zlatan has indicated in the other thread about GameWorks requiring rendering engine changes to get them to work, as they are non-modifiable.

 

[3DVagabond]

There was a hotfix today for the hotfix that fixed FO4 crossfire issue.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-art...mson-Edition-16.1.1-Hotfix-Release-Notes.aspx

Release is still labeled as 16.1.1

Nice to see a fast fix. Hopefully it doesn't break anything else.