AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.8.1 Drivers

[btarunr]

AMD today released the latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin. Version 21.8.1 Beta comes with support for the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card (which we reviewed here). It also fixes an issue with "The Medium" that caused the game to crash while running FrameView. The company also identified a handful issues, some even specific to the RX 6600 XT, such as inaccurate point-lights in "Control," and driver timeouts observed in "Horizon Zero Dawn" with RX 6700 XT, and less specifically on RX 500 series products with simultaneous gaming+streaming. Grab the driver from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.8.1 Beta



Support For

• AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Graphics

Fixed Issues

• The Medium may crash after launching the game while running FrameView.

Known Issues

• Upgrading to the latest Radeon graphics driver may cause the auto update feature on Ryzen Master to stop working. A temporary workaround is to manually update Ryzen Master.
• While playing Control using DirectX 12, users may observe corrupt light rays on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 6600 XT.
• Driver timeouts may be experienced while playing a game & streaming a video simultaneously on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 500 Series Graphics.
• Users may experience difficulties ending a recording session on Open Broadcaster Software when recording in H265/HEVC codec on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 6800XT.
• AMD Radeon Software may crash or become unresponsive while playing some DirectX 11 games such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with multiple displays connected in extended mode.
• Playing Horizon Zero Dawn for an extended period may lead to a driver timeout or game crash on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 6700 XT.
• 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.
• Connecting two displays with large differences in resolution/refresh rates may cause flickering on Radeon RX Vega series graphics products.
• Radeon performance metrics and logging features may intermittently report extremely high and incorrect memory clock values.

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[Salvo39]

Ahh..When will they fix the yellow screen when drivers are installed. I posted it as a bug hopefully it gets resolved soon..

 

[MyTechAddiction]

Ahh..When will they fix the yellow screen when drivers are installed. I posted it as a bug hopefully it gets resolved soon..
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from this end it looks like Microsoft basic display is making the image bluer than normal.

 

[Salvo39]

from this end it looks like Microsoft basic display is making the image bluer than normal.

Yes sure its a basic display adapter working at 1Hz I think, things are notably slow and blurry. However, the colors are accurate. If you look at the clouds and the reflections in water you can see that on the right image it has a yello-ish tint. Hard to capture on camera but very noticeable in person. The image is supposed to be slightly cooler blue.

 

[Space Lynx]

Yes sure its a basic display adapter working at 1Hz I think, things are notably slow and blurry. However, the colors are accurate. If you look at the clouds and the reflections in water you can see that on the right image it has a yello-ish tint. Hard to capture on camera but very noticeable in person. The image is supposed to be slightly cooler blue.

I prefer the right image actually. So I think this is more preference than anything actually.

 

[zlobby]

I prefer the right image actually. So I think this is more preference than anything actually.

Uhm, I think it's called accurate color reproduction.

 

[Valantar]

Yes sure its a basic display adapter working at 1Hz I think, things are notably slow and blurry. However, the colors are accurate. If you look at the clouds and the reflections in water you can see that on the right image it has a yello-ish tint. Hard to capture on camera but very noticeable in person. The image is supposed to be slightly cooler blue.

Are you sure that the left image is actually an accurate reproduction? That depends on the white balance of the camera, editing, etc., so both of those can be equally right or wrong.

Beyond that, check your settings in Radeon Software -> Preferences -> Display. RGB or YCbCr tends to render colors differently, plus there's the "custom color" panel.

 

[Salvo39]

Are you sure that the left image is actually an accurate reproduction? That depends on the white balance of the camera, editing, etc., so both of those can be equally right or wrong.

Beyond that, check your settings in Radeon Software -> Preferences -> Display. RGB or YCbCr tends to render colors differently, plus there's the "custom color" panel.

I have to manually change the color temperature to 8500k to make it look better. Perhaps its the panel but again without drivers why does it look soo much better.

 

[Valantar]

I have to manually change the color temperature to 8500k to make it look better. Perhaps its the panel but again without drivers why does it look soo much better.
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That sounds very odd. Sounds like a coincidence to me, though it might of course be a bug of some sort. Either way it's definitely not good.

 

[Salvo39]

That sounds very odd. Sounds like a coincidence to me, though it might of course be a bug of some sort. Either way it's definitely not good.

I wonder what exactly does the driver installs? Would it be a faulty ICC color profile?

That depends on the white balance of the camera, editing, etc., so both of those can be equally right or wrong.

I locked the AF/AE settings on the iPhone before taking these pics. They were taken in succession 10 seconds apart (i.e camera was not turned off between the shots)

 

[Valantar]

I wonder what exactly does the driver installs? Would it be a faulty ICC color profile?


I locked the AF/AE settings on the iPhone before taking these pics. They were taken in succession 10 seconds apart (i.e camera was not turned off between the shots)

I was talking about the picture on the screen, not your photo of the screen For example, are the clouds actually cool white or warm white in their color data? The eyedropper tool in photoshop (and probably some equivalent in GIMP if you need something free) can check that for you.

It shouldn't install an ICC profile (if so you'd be able to see that in the windows display color management settings), but either it's trying to correct the colors from some unknown baseline (seems odd, I wouldn't expect that) or there's some sort of weirdness in the communication between the gpu and display (given that software settings are set to 6500). Is this a laptop, btw?

 

[zlobby]

I have to manually change the color temperature to 8500k to make it look better. Perhaps its the panel but again without drivers why does it look soo much better.
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Might also be a bug with night light. It usually gives a slight reddish tint.

Maybe you could upload a same picture here, so guys with calibrated monitors may have a look at it. Or maybe some color professional can take a look at the color curves and tell us how the original image is. Then, we can draw some conclusions.

Edit: do you have the image taken in raw as well?

 

[Salvo39]

I was talking about the picture on the screen, not your photo of the screen For example, are the clouds actually cool white or warm white in their color data? The eyedropper tool in photoshop (and probably some equivalent in GIMP if you need something free) can check that for you.

It shouldn't install an ICC profile (if so you'd be able to see that in the windows display color management settings), but either it's trying to correct the colors from some unknown baseline (seems odd, I wouldn't expect that) or there's some sort of weirdness in the communication between the gpu and display (given that software settings are set to 6500). Is this a laptop, btw?

Yes this is the Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G2 ARE Laptop - Type 20VF with 4700u 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD

Might also be a bug with night light. It usually gives a slight reddish tint.

Maybe you could upload a same picture here, so guys with calibrated monitors may have a look at it. Or maybe some color professional can take a look at the color curves and tell us how the original image is. Then, we can draw some conclusions.

Edit: do you have the image taken in raw as well?

It was part of Bing Images. I have Bing Desktop installed so it changes my wallpaper everyday. I cannot find the raw image but here is the link Image

 

[zlobby]

Yes this is the Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G2 ARE Laptop - Type 20VF with 4700u 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD


It was part of Bing Images. I have Bing Desktop installed so it changes my wallpaper everyday. I cannot find the raw image but here is the link Image

Offtopic: what battery life are you getting under the different usage loads?

 

[Salvo39]

Offtopic: what battery life are you getting under the different usage loads?

Under 'Intelligent Cooling' mode it can last a good 5-6 hours at 50% brightness. Unfortunately because I need to change the color temperature through Radeon Control Center the brightness somehow gets gimped so I have to turn it all the way up. I think with battery saver you can push 6-7 hours. IMHO screen is pretty bad but overall a great laptop (processor, RAM, SSD wise). Just for fun using RyzenAdj I was able to tweak the the boost settings which gave me an all 8core turbo of 4GHz@87degC with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of ~8100 which is close to the first gen Ryzen desktop chips. I think with some cooling mods and a repaste I can push further. Fun little powerful bad screen 14" book . I might change the screen later down the line to a better maybe 400nit/500nit one