Tuesday, February 14th 2023
AMD Software Adrenalin 23.2.1 Released: Finally Updates for RX 6000 Series and Older
AMD today released its first driver update in more than two months for Radeon RX 6000 series and RX 5000 series, the Adrenalin 23.2.1 WHQL. The drivers introduce optimization for "Forspoken," with up to 7% performance improvement on offer at 4K with an RX 6950 XT GPU; and optimization for "Dead Space" (2023). The drivers also introduce IREE compiler using MLIR interface on Vulkan, and a handful of new Vulkan API extensions. The drivers also catch up on the past two months of optimizations that were only released for the RX 7000 series, covering Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, Hogwarts Legacy, and some performance improvements to games released in the past six months.
Among the issues fixed with this release include the "Delayed Write Failed" error noticed in Windows 11 22H2, SpaceEngine lower-than-expected performance, display corruption in the Points Shop section of Steam; YouTube playback with Enhanced Sync on some RX 6000 series GPUs; game crashes noticed with Door Kickers 2, Baldur's Gate (Vulkan), Emergency 4, and Sea of Thieves. These drivers unify the driver release trunk, spanning RX 400 series, RX 500 series, RX Vega series, RX 5000 series, RX 6000 series, and RX 7000 series.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Software Adrenalin 23.2.1 WHQLSupport for:
Among the issues fixed with this release include the "Delayed Write Failed" error noticed in Windows 11 22H2, SpaceEngine lower-than-expected performance, display corruption in the Points Shop section of Steam; YouTube playback with Enhanced Sync on some RX 6000 series GPUs; game crashes noticed with Door Kickers 2, Baldur's Gate (Vulkan), Emergency 4, and Sea of Thieves. These drivers unify the driver release trunk, spanning RX 400 series, RX 500 series, RX Vega series, RX 5000 series, RX 6000 series, and RX 7000 series.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Software Adrenalin 23.2.1 WHQLSupport for:
- Forspoken
- Up to 7% increase in performance for Forspoken @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 22.11.2 RS-524
- Dead Space
- IREE compiler using MLIR interface on Vulkan.
- Additional Vulkan extensions. Click here for more information.
- Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs now have support for newly introduced streaming capabilities including pre-filter toggle, pre-analysis feature and CAML technology.
- A new version of AMD Link improves overall connectivity across all supported Radeon products, RX 400 series and newer, so you can game from anywhere on virtually any device.
- Boost your performance with AMD Software - read the latest blog HERE and learn how this newly unified driver delivers performance gains since Windows 11 first launched.
- Up to 4% increase in performance for Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 22.11.2 RS-518
- Up to 3% increase in performance for Sniper Elite 5 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 22.11.2 RS-519
- Up to 6% increase in performance for Shadow of the Tomb Raider @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 22.11.2 RS-520
- Up to 7% increase in performance for Quake II RTX @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 22.11.2 RS-521
- Up to 4% increase in performance for Hitman 3 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 22.11.2 RS-522
- Up to 6% increase in performance for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 22.11.2 RS-523
- Up to 19% increase in performance for F1 2022 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 22.11.2 RS-525
- Up to 9% increase in performance for DOOM Eternal @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 22.11.2 RS-526
- Up to 4% increase in performance for Borderlands 3 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950XT GPU, versus the previous software driver version 22.11.2 RS-527
- Up to 4% increase in performance for Hogwarts Legacy @ 4K using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.2.1 on the Radeon ️ RX 6950 XT and Radeon 7900 XTX, versus the previous software driver version (22.11.2 for 6950 XT, 23.1.2 for 7900 XTX) RS-530
- AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition may fail to launch with the error message "Delayed Write Failed" on Microsoft Windows 11 version 22H2.
- Poor performance and load time may be observed while playing SpaceEngine.
- Corruption may be observed while scrolling the points shop in STEAM on Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs.
- Performance drop may be observed during Fortnite and YouTube playback with Enhanced Sync enabled on some AMD Graphics Products such as AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT.
- Corruption or game crash may be observed while playing Door Kickers 2.
- Missing or flickering textures may be observed while playing Emergency 4.
- Application crash may be observed when launching Baldur's Gate 3 using Vulkan API on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Stuttering may be observed while playing Sea of Thieves on Radeon RX 6000 and above series GPUs.
- Corruption may be observed while playing Battlefield 4 with Post Process Quality settings set to high or ultra on Radeon RX 6000 and above series GPUs.
- White foliage may be observed while playing Hogwarts Legacy on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Intermittent system stuttering or UI flickering may occur when two videos are simultaneously playing using chromium-based browsers on some multi-display configurations.
- High idle power has situationally been observed when using select high-resolution and high refresh rate displays on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Video stuttering or performance drop may be observed during gameplay plus video playback with some extended display configurations on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- Application crash may be observed while opening Premium Gold Packs in EA SPORTS FIFA 23.
- Some virtual reality games or apps may experience lower-than-expected performance on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.
- AMD Bug Report Tool pop-up or system hang may be observed after driver upgrade on some hybrid graphics notebooks. Users are recommended to use the factory reset install option as a workaround.
- Corruption may be briefly observed when moving Netflix video between displays or minimize-to-fullscreen on some AMD Products such as AMD Ryzen 7 6800U.
- Certain videos played with Movies and TV may briefly show corruption when moving the window between displays on some AMD Graphics Products such as AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT.
- Brief display corruption may occur when switching between video and game
74 Comments on AMD Software Adrenalin 23.2.1 Released: Finally Updates for RX 6000 Series and Older
No, windows didn't get corrupted. No, your PC didn't break. Geez.
And specially no, a driver update doesn't change your BIOS settings. That's just insanity (or maybe not)
Sure, *something* went wrong that shouldn't have gone wrong, but the theories and fearmongering about it breaking everything and corrupting windows, bricking your entire computer and even changing bios settings.
We should just wait for official word on this. It might be specific configurations or Windows settings. Might even be an issue on Windows itself for all we know.
I installed last night in as simple a way as possible, download then run.
It chose a clean install, not me, I did think that odd or different at least.
Two boots later, one to remove one to reinstall and all done.
So it's not corrupted.
It's not bricking all PCs
It's possibly affecting some configs because of something, but it's not a corrupt driver or everyone would see only turd with it wouldn't they.
I'm starting to wonder WTAF IS going on though.
Installing it worked fine for me, too. That's because of Ryzen Master integration with the RM (AMDRyzenMasterDriver.sys, which controls PBO on the CPU if you set it on RM or Adrenalin) driver, though. Not directly changing BIOS settings.
It would be hilarious if THAT was the issue, but I doubt it.
I don't think there's any widespread issue either, but people need to be aware that 'software can't change bios setting from within Windows' isn't true.
Edit: Am on Win11 22H2
That would put the 6900 XT ahead of the 3090 Ti and make the 6950 XT a match for the 4080 :eek:
Granted, AMD is underperforming a bit in this title, but 19 % is a wild claim
UPDATE: That filename doesn't exist now, they should have updated the initial one with the latest. Still, the download server might need to have the latest existing one.
the downloaded file is whql-amd-software-adrenalin-edition-23.2.1-win10-win11-feb14.exe
www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-7000-series/amd-radeon-rx-7900-series/amd-radeon-rx-7900xtx
www.computerbase.de/downloads/treiber/grafikkarten/amd-adrenalin-treiber/
Fun stuff, using Macrium Recovery as I type this to try and fix it.
Worst case scenario, I can recover from my weekly backups (latest one is 6 days old).
EDIT: And, Macrium didn't work. Thanks AMD! This is why backups are important.
EDIT 2: Retrying with Fast Boot disabled. This still seems like an unacceptable issue to me.
EDIT 3: Still doesn't work.
Alright, so I've learned a lesson to enable restore points I guess.
Restoring from my February 12th backup and will be staying on the latest NimeZ driver. I was wondering why they hadn't done 23.2.1 yet; guess this is why.
EDIT 4: Restored from the backup and everything is working now. Probably lost my BG3 save, but whatever.
I will not be using the official drivers in the future. NimeZ for the win.
I also cannot stress the importance of regular backups enough.
EDIT 5: Added picture of the recovery screen error code.
Otherwise i've found going into safe mode and leaving it, a method to get out of any fast boot related hiccups - even letting you do things like change between IDE/RAID/AHCI mode on older platforms if needed