Radeon™ Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1

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Article Number: RN-WIN-RADEONADRENALIN-18.2.1
Introducing Radeon™ Software Adrenalin Edition, artfully designed and meticulously crafted to unleash the powerful performance and innovation built into Radeon™ Graphics through an incredibly intuitive and utterly beautiful user interface for both PCs and mobile devices.

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1 Highlights

Support For

• Final Fantasy® 12: The Zodiac Age

Resolved Issues

• Radeon FreeSync may rapidly change between min and max range when enabled causing stutter in fullscreen games on single display system configurations.
• Sid Meier's Civilization® V may fail to launch on Hybrid Graphics system configurations when using DirectX®9 API.
• Radeon FreeSync may exhibit a black screen on some games when using Samsung™ CF791 displays.
• Radeon Chill game settings profiles may fail to enable on Vulkan™ API games.
• Radeon Overlay may fail to open in some Vulkan™ API games.
• Need for Speed™ Payback may exhibit corruption on some terrain.
• Textures in Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 V Generation™ may appear corrupted or exhibit flickering colours.

Known Issues

• Radeon FreeSync may intermittently incorrectly engage during Chrome video playback resulting in playback flicker.
• Radeon Overlay hotkey may fail to bring up the overlay or may cause a Radeon Host Application crash intermittently on a limited number of gaming titles.
• Radeon FreeSync may rapidly change between min and max range when enabled causing stutter in fullscreen games on multi display system configurations.
• Flickering may be observed on the performance metrics overlay when Enhanced Sync is enabled on some Radeon FreeSync connected displays.
• A random system hang may be experienced after extended periods of use on system configurations using 12 GPU's for compute workloads.
• Water textures may appear to be missing in World of Final Fantasy™.
• The GPU Workload feature may cause a system hang when switching to Compute while AMD CrossFire is enabled. A workaround is to disable AMD CrossFire before switching the toggle to Compute workloads.

Package Contents


The Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1 installation package contains the following:

• Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1 Driver Version 17.50.17.03 (Windows Driver Store Version 23.20.15017.3008)

 

[alexruiz]

WHQL?

They are listed as the recommended driver, not as optional.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Just an FYI, but this driver is now listed as an option for driver switching with Vega FE. I haven't gotten it to work yet, though.

 

[DrMrLordX]

I finally got 18.2.1 to work via driver switching from the 2018 Q1 drivers for Vega FE.

For those who are familiar with Vega FE and the "generally accepted" method for driver switching without incident, I can only say that I was forced to do things differently than I had before to get things to work.

The old procedure I was taught was to:

Uninstall display device from Device Manager, and delete driver software.  Repeat this as often as necessary until the OS until Windows loads the generic VGA adapter drivers
Reboot
Uninstall Radeon software via the AMD Install Manager under Apps & Features
Reboot
Install Vega FE drivers, using Custom mode (agree to allow driver switching)
Reboot
Install (but don't install + switch) latest build of gaming drivers after searching for them via Radeon Pro Settings under the Driver Options panel
Reboot(?)
Switch driver mode to the gaming drivers you just installed
Reboot

Following these instructions lead to the "usual" failed driver switch: the system would hang during the driver switch portion of the above instructions; upon rebooting, the gaming driver would be installed, but Radeon Settings would not be available at all, making the driver switch mostly pointless.

After several failed attempts to follow the above instructions, I tried cleaning everything up with DDU and going back to 17.12.2 which ALSO failed in the same way (?!?!?). I then "Clean Installed" 18 Q1 drivers over the broken vestiges of the 17.12.2 gaming driver, rebooted, and used the "install and switch" option under Radeon Pro Settings/Driver Options. Normally this is taboo. The first time I selected the option, it simply did nothing. The second time, it worked, and it prompted me to reboot. Viola! Working 18.2.1 gaming drivers on my Vega FE.

Very frustrating. It's a shame I have to go through this every time I do a Win10 build update . . .