AMD Adrenalin 24.3.1: Update for Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Horizon Forbidden West

This month, AMD is upgrading the Adrenalin driver for Radeon graphics cards to version 24.3.1 and adding optimizations for the games Dragon’s Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West and Outpost: Infinity Siege. There is HYPR Tune support for four tracks. In addition, various errors have been corrected.

Optimizations for new games

Capcom’s action role-playing game Dragon’s Dogma 2 is one of the most anticipated games of the year, according to Steam. ComputerBase has already looked at the game from the technical side and finds the hardware requirements far too high given the rather mediocre graphics.

• Dragon’s Dogma 2 in the test: The highly praised game demands far too much from gaming PCs

Unfortunately, the new adrenaline driver arrived too late for the editorial team’s tests. But this should bring optimizations for the title.

In addition, like the GeForce driver released a day earlier, there are 551.86 adjustments for the Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition, which is officially released today.

The FPS tower defense mix has not yet been released, but is also included in the adrenaline driver Outpost: Infinity Siegewhich will be released on March 26, 2024.

New HYPR Tune profiles

AMD has put together a feature package for Radeon under HYPR-RX, which includes upscaling techniques (FSR, RSR), latency improvements (anti-lag) and energy saving measures (FRTC). AMD offers “optimized” profiles (HYPR-Tune) for certain games via its software. The following titles are supported with the update:

• Dragon’s Dogma 2
• Diablo IV
• Ghost Runner 2
• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Fixed and open bugs

AMD wants a dozen problems with Adrenalin 24.3.1 (Release Notes) have now been solved. These include micro-stutters in certain games when AMD Fluid Motion Frames is activated or crashes and driver timeouts in Helldivers 2 and Starcraft 2. Also against invisible characters in Cossacks 3 or purple graphic errors in Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded when Radeon Boost is activated and ray tracing, the driver update should help.

The problems with Helldivers 2 in dual-monitor operation on graphics cards such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX are still known but still unresolved. Crashes in Lords of the Fallen on RX 6000 and artifacts in Snowrunner on RX 6800 are expected to be prevented with the April update (24.4.1). In May (5/24/1), AMD plans to fix a bug related to SmartAccess Video and in the third quarter, problems with video capture in the AV1 codec via the Adrenalin software will be addressed.

List of fixed bugs

• Excessive micro stutter may be intermittently experienced after enabling AMD Fluid Motion Frames for select games.
• Improvement to intermittent driver timeout or application crash experienced while playing HELLDIVERS™ 2 on AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 series GPUs.
• Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Starcraft II™ on Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs.
• Improvements to reduce initial loading times while playing World of Warcraft with DirectX 12 API on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6800.
• Purple corruption may be observed while playing Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition with Radeon™ Boost and Raytracing enabled.
• Some characters may appear invisible or have missing textures while playing Cossacks 3.
• Flickering lights may be observed while playing Space Engineers in certain indoor environments.
• The maximum memory tuning limit may be incorrectly reported on AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 GRE graphics products.
• Shader caching may fail for Windows usernames containing accented characters.
• FPS performance metric may incorrectly report values ​​while a game is minimized.
• GPU Acceleration may be missing/grayed out in Adobe Premiere Pro on some hybrid graphics systems.
• Performance drop may be observed while using some DirectML workloads in Topaz AI.

List of outstanding bugs

• Intermittent driver timeout or application crash may be experienced while playing HELLDIVERS™ 2 on dual monitor setups on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX.
• Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing Lords of the Fallen and entering certain areas on Radeon™ RX 6000 series GPUs. [Resolution targeted for 24.4.1]
• Artifacts may appear in certain mud environments while playing SnowRunner on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6800. [Resolution targeted for 24.4.1]
• AMD SmartAccess Video may be incorrectly reported as “Available” on some systems with the Parsec Virtual Display Driver installed. [Resolution targeted for 24.5.1]
• Audio and video may intermittently become out of sync while recording using the AV1 codec in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition. [Resolution targeted for Q3]

Download on ComputerBase

As usual, the new Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1 can be downloaded from the ComputerBase download area directly below this message. The new version has this WHQLTests passed according to AMD and was certified accordingly by Microsoft. There is no new update for the Linux driver yet.

Notes from AMD: If you have already installed a preview driver, you should use it with it AMD Cleanup Utility remove before installing the new driver. Furthermore, after the driver update, some graphics profiles may be incorrectly set to HYPR-RX Eco. This can be remedied using the option to apply factory settings.