Thursday, October 20th 2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.2 Beta
AMD today released a new beta update to their Radeon Software Crimson Edition. Version 16.10.2 Beta features driver support for upcoming games like "Battlefield 1", "Sid Meier's Civilization VI", "Titanfall 2", "Serious Sam VR Early Access", as well as "Eagle Flight VR". Also included is a new AMD CrossFire profile for "Sid Meyer's Civilization VI" under DX11, and Battlefield 1 AMD CrossFire profile updates for the game's launch.
The release notes also list some fixed issues, namely:
DOWNLOAD: AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.2 Beta for Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 10 32-bit | Windows 8.1 64-bit | Windows 8.1 32-bit | Windows 7 64-bit | Windows 7 32-bit
The release notes also list some fixed issues, namely:
- Fan speed may sometimes remain elevated on select Radeon RX 400 series graphics products even when an application has been exited;
- Eyefinity group settings may not be retained after driver upgrade when using AMD CrssFire configurations;
- Gears of War 4 may experience an application hang when using select high resolution and quality configurations i some specific game maps;
- DirectX 12 content may be unable to launch on some older CPUs that do not support "popcnt" instruction.
8 Comments on AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.2 Beta
On a good note, these and the last drivers have not caused problems (well 95% correct). i had my fan ramp up to 100% and i had to reboot to fix it. Googling around showed others had the issue as well but it seems to have been fixed as i only encountered it the 1 time