Wednesday, September 30th 2020
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.9.2 Drivers
AMD late Tuesday released the latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition. Version 20.9.2 beta introduces optimization for "Star Wars: Squadrons," adds three new Vulkan API extensions, and introduces a number of fixes. To begin with, 20.9.2 adds support for VK_KHR_buffer_device_address, VK_EXT_robustness2, and VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64, adding to the API feature-set supported by AMD GPUs. Certain games exhibiting intermittent stuttering with RX 5000 series GPUs has been fixed. Radeon FreeSync failing to enable after driver updates without system reboot has been fixed. "X-Plane 11" experiencing crashes when played with its Vulkan renderer has been fixed. "DOOM VFR" artefacting with RX 5000 series GPUs has been fixed. Performance metrics overlay failing to enabled after the system waking up from sleep, has been fixed.
"Call of Duty: WWII" black textures bug in the zombies mode has been fixed. Blocky display corruption in "Detroit: Become Human" has been fixed. Green video corruption when using the Windows 10 Movies & TV app to edit videos has been fixed. A bug with the VRAM performance metrics incorrectly displaying has been fixed. Windows desktop flickering with HDR enabled, has been fixed. "World of Warcraft" experiencing display corruption with AA enabled, with the DirectX 12 renderer, has been fixed. Grab the driver from the link below.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.9.2
The change-log follows.
Support For STAR WARS : Squadrons
Added Vulkan Support
"Call of Duty: WWII" black textures bug in the zombies mode has been fixed. Blocky display corruption in "Detroit: Become Human" has been fixed. Green video corruption when using the Windows 10 Movies & TV app to edit videos has been fixed. A bug with the VRAM performance metrics incorrectly displaying has been fixed. Windows desktop flickering with HDR enabled, has been fixed. "World of Warcraft" experiencing display corruption with AA enabled, with the DirectX 12 renderer, has been fixed. Grab the driver from the link below.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.9.2
Support For STAR WARS : Squadrons
Added Vulkan Support
- VK_KHR_buffer_device_address: This extension is used to query the device address of a buffer to allow for shader access to that buffer's storage via the SPV_KHR_physical_storage_buffer SPIRV extension.
- VK_EXT_robustness2: This extension provides stricter restrictions for handling reads and writes that are out of bounds. It specifies that out-of-bounds reads must return zeros and out-of-bounds writes must be discarded. This extension also adds support for null descriptors.
- VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64: This extension extends existing 64-bit integer atomic support to images, which provides more efficient access than buffers. This allows applications to quickly improve their performance with minor changes to their code.
- Some games may exhibit stutter intermittently during gameplay on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products.
- Radeon FreeSync may fail to enable after updating Radeon Software without a system reboot.
- Screen flickering may be observed while MSI Afterburner is running or enabled on the system.
- X-Plane 11 may experience an application hang or crash when using the Vulkan API.
- DOOM VFR may experience corruption or artifacting in game on Radeon RX 5000 series system configurations.
- Performance metrics overlay may fail to open or appear after the system wakes from sleep.
- Call of Duty : WWII may experience black textures on the ground or walls in zombies game mode.
- Blocky corruption may be observed in Detroit: Become Human on some Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products.
- Using the Movies&TV application to edit video clips may result in green corruption in the clips.
- Performance metrics may report incorrect values for current VRAM usage after an extended period of gameplay.
- With HDR enabled, Windows desktop may experience flickering, and performing a task switch while in a game may cause colors to become washed out or over saturated.
- World of Warcraft may experience corruption issues with anti-aliasing enabled on DirectX 12 API.
- Launching Radeon Software after a driver upgrade, may cause the Auto OC dialogue to appear with "0 Mhz" when the Auto OC feature has been previously enabled on Radeon RX Vega series graphics products.
- Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
- Performance Metrics Overlay and the Performance Tuning tab incorrectly report higher than expected idle clock speeds on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products. Performance and power consumption are not impacted by this incorrect reporting.
- Audio may experience instability when connected through an Audio Video Receiver via HDMI on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products.
- Modifying the HDMI Scaling slider may cause FPS to become locked to 30.
13 Comments on AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.9.2 Drivers
To be fair I found a fix, just mute and unmute one or 2 times and it works.
It's so weird to me how some games can such specific bugs... like CoD works fine but not in zombie mode until now? lol so weird to me. I will never understand coding. if everything is based off an engine, then I would think the drivers would be coded for said engine not for said games. bleh don't bother trying to explain it to me, i not smart enough lol
OpenGL is still useless, but I bet AMD came up with Mantle/Vulkan to just avoid ever fixing it.
VK_EXT_robustness2 is a great addition.
I'd say computers in general are sometimes weird, you get an issue and then for for no reason it disappears.