Thursday, June 30th 2022

AMD Releases Adrenalin 22.6.1 Legacy Software for Older GPUs

AMD today released AMD Software Adrenalin 22.6.1 Legacy. This is a special branch of AMD software designed for older GPUs based on the Graphics CoreNext architecture—Fury series, 300 series, 200 series, and HD 7000/8000 series. The driver only supports Windows 10 64-bit, there's no official support for Windows 11. Legacy branch drivers correct outstanding bugs, security vulnerabilities, and some other software-level updates, but the company doesn't advertise any new game-specific optimizations. This is probably because these GPU generations fall outside the minimum system requirements of the latest games. Still, if you'd like to reminisce with an older GPU you have lying around, or want to build a period-specific project (2010 to 2015); here's your chance. If however, you're looking for the regular Adrenalin 22.6.1 WHQL drivers for the latest GPUs, check out this page.

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53 Comments on AMD Releases Adrenalin 22.6.1 Legacy Software for Older GPUs

#51
Athlonite
Musselssome adaptors dont work on all hardware, and HDMI ports on TV's arent all equal

Mine only has 2 ports that do full bandwidth, and theres a software toggle to enable it - when it's turned on, my older GPU's give out a special green and purple image instead of "just working" at 4k60hz (4:2:0 or 4:4:4 instead of RGB, i honestly don't recall which)
It's not a TV though it's an actual monitor but what I'm guessing is going on is that the HDMI on the monitor is only handshaking at 4K30Hz to the DP port on the GPU his monitor does have a DP port on it which should handshake to the GPU at 4K60Hz

GPU asks monitor hey so what can you do Monitor answers 4K30 because to it it's only connected VIA HDMI (the monitor doesn't know it's a DP port at the other end of the cable)
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#52
Mussels
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AthloniteIt's not a TV though it's an actual monitor but what I'm guessing is going on is that the HDMI on the monitor is only handshaking at 4K30Hz to the DP port on the GPU his monitor does have a DP port on it which should handshake to the GPU at 4K60Hz

GPU asks monitor hey so what can you do Monitor answers 4K30 because to it it's only connected VIA HDMI (the monitor doesn't know it's a DP port at the other end of the cable)
The definition between TV's and monitors is small these days
Both my 32" screens in front of me have one HDMI 2.0 port and one HDMI 1.4 - no way in hell could i run my 4K 72Hz off that HDMI 1.4 port

DP to HDMI cables just add more chances for a lack of bandwidth since both the DP and HDMI ports need to be fast enough to handle the negotiated resolutions
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#53
mirh
Al Chafaithe big question is, does this driver support Vulkan 1.3?
Nope, if anybody was still wondering.
It only gives you 1.2.170.. as somebody noted on reddit, the driver could as well just be named 21.5.1 (people there and elsewhere also recommended NimeZ, but idk).
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