AMD Intros Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.1 Beta

btarunr · Jan 11, 2016

AMD unveiled Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.1 Beta. The latest version of AMD's suite, which provides drivers and system software for its Radeon GPUs, comes with a large complement of game-specific performance/stability improvements. This includes bug-fixes specific to Fallout 4, Just Cause 3, Star Wars: Battlefront, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Grab the driver from the links below.

DOWNLOAD: AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.1 Beta for Windows 10/8.1/7 64-bit | Windows 10/8.1/7 32-bit

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Batou1986 · Jan 11, 2016

This also fixes the super cruise FPS drop in Elite Dangerous on Win10 finally

natr0n · Jan 11, 2016

Some of the newer drivers break opengl. AMD seems to have shitty/broken opengl support according to emulation devs.

Octopuss · Jan 11, 2016

Is this the same driver announced on Guru3d week ago?

natr0n · Jan 11, 2016

Octopuss said:
Is this the same driver announced on Guru3d week ago?

Yep, everyone is busy on tpu due to shows hence late news.

Mussels · Jan 12, 2016

fianlly made it to the news here

decent driver, no issues to report here.

Mentando · Jan 12, 2016

Batou1986 said:
This also fixes the super cruise FPS drop in Elite Dangerous on Win10 finally

Really? That's awesome!

Woofed · Jan 12, 2016

Sadly Crimson Software is not supporting Brazos APUs... :/ Even Catalyst lost Brazos support. After just 4 years. What the hell AMD?

Tsukiyomi91 · Jan 12, 2016

still rocking the Crimson v15 on one of the quick built rig for my cousins to use. Gonna test this driver out once I reach home from work.

Octopuss · Jan 12, 2016

I am still puzzled why they thought it was a good idea to force the damn control panel to use the language of the OS (or the location or something). Without the possibility to change it. It might not seem like a big deal, but the damn thing automatically shows everything in czech for me, and that makes it absolutely useless because I have no damn idea what those options mean

AsRock · Jan 12, 2016

Octopuss said:
I am still puzzled why they thought it was a good idea to force the damn control panel to use the language of the OS (or the location or something). Without the possibility to change it. It might not seem like a big deal, but the damn thing automatically shows everything in czech for me, and that makes it absolutely useless because I have no damn idea what those options mean

Then you should go to their driver page and report a issue.

Phobia9651 · Jan 12, 2016

Today I got a new message for a driver update, however when I click "Upgrade" and am going through the update process my current installed driver version is listed (15.301.x) instead of 16.15.x. So basically nothing changes when completing the update process.
Anyone else got this problem?
And isn't 15.301.x already Crimson Edition 16.1?

ahmetcalisan · Jan 12, 2016

urza26 said:
Today I got a new message for a driver update, however when I click "Upgrade" and am going through the update process my current installed driver version is listed (15.301.x) instead of 16.15.x. So basically nothing changes when completing the update process.
Anyone else got this problem?
And isn't 15.301.x already Crimson Edition 16.1?

I have the same problem. I installed two times but again my driver is 15.301... I do not know what to do?

buggalugs · Jan 12, 2016

Why does it say Beta in the story but when you download, its labeled WHQL?

Octopuss · Jan 12, 2016

It's even called a hotfix on AMD's web...

buggalugs · Jan 12, 2016

Octopuss said:
It's even called a hotfix on AMD's web...

I had the same issue, if you use the installer, (upgrade from within the crimson software), it wants to install the same driver, it says the latest driver is already installed.

To fix it just download the 16.1 software from here, then uninstall crimson, then install the new software, it now says 16.1 installed.

Fluffmeister · Jan 13, 2016

Just reading threads about AMD drivers terrify me*

*nVidia drivers are evil too

jigar2speed · Jan 13, 2016

natr0n said:
Some of the newer drivers break opengl. AMD seems to have shitty/broken opengl support according to emulation devs.

Wolfenstein - the new order (OpenGL based game) works awesome here, infact performance improved with this driver. Also nothings broken to report.

natr0n · Jan 13, 2016

jigar2speed said:
Wolfenstein - the new order (OpenGL based game) works awesome here, infact performance improved with this driver. Also nothings broken to report.

I tried playing ppsspp emulator uses opengl and crashes saying driver stopped responding. Idk anything newer than 15.9.1 for me has issues.

m4gicfour · Jan 14, 2016

@natr0n - So it's issues supporting older versions of OpenGL then?

Try dumping atioglxx.dll from a version of the driver that works with your app into the folder of the offending application (same folder as the .exe for your troublesome game), then updating to newest driver. The .dll in the folder (local) should override and load instead of the one installed by the driver (global) and - hopefully - work. Then you'll have the newest driver, and only be overriding to an older version of that driver component for apps that need it.

I've had to do it in the past for *really* old games that use outmoded versions of OpenGL, worth a shot.

Here's some instructions for how to extract the atioglxx.dll from the (older, working) driver package without actually installing it and then searching the system folders for it

Mussels · Jan 14, 2016

m4gicfour said:
@natr0n - So it's issues supporting older versions of OpenGL then?

Try dumping atioglxx.dll from a version of the driver that works with your app into the folder of the offending application (same folder as the .exe for your troublesome game), then updating to newest driver. The .dll in the folder (local) should override and load instead of the one installed by the driver (global) and - hopefully - work. Then you'll have the newest driver, and only be overriding to an older version of that driver component for apps that need it.

I've had to do it in the past for *really* old games that use outmoded versions of OpenGL, worth a shot.

Here's some instructions for how to extract the atioglxx.dll from the (older, working) driver package without actually installing it and then searching the system folders for it

that same trick is how the fallout 4 compass fix worked (different file), so its definitely a common way to resolve problems that worked on older drivers, but not newer.

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