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AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 18.12.2 Download
on: 12/13/2018 02:40 PM [ 19 comment(s) ]
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Download AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.12.2 driver. This is the new Adrenalin 2019 driver offer new features and options.
Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition, designed to give gamers deeply immersive gameplay and inspired by today’s era of social, connected gaming. Should you like to share or read up on user experiences, we have an open discussion thread open on these drivers right here.
The driver has been redesigned and will offer some new features, among it a more an enhancement for the OSD, showing monitoring registers like FPS game performance, VRAM, CPU and other stuff. The December driver obviously is an incremental driver update just as we have seen on roughly a monthly release schedule with lots of zero-day driver releases when games are released. Updated as well is AMD LINK support for smartphone monitoring of your graphics card(s), which we'll talk about on the next few pages as well.
Support For
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
- Up to 4% faster performance in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey using Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 18.12.2 on the Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.12.1 at 1920x1080 (1080p). RS-277
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Up to 3% faster performance in Shadow of the Tomb Raider using Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 18.12.2 on the Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.12.1 at 2560x1440 (1440p). RS-278
- DOOM
- Up to 5% faster performance in DOOM using Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 18.12.2 on the Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.12.1 at 3840x2160 (4K). RS-279
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
- Up to 5% faster performance in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus using Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 18.12.2 on the Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.12.1 at 3840x2160 (4K). RS-280
- Strange Brigade
- Up to 7% faster performance in Strange Brigade using Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 18.12.2 on the Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.12.1 at 3840x2160 (4K). RS-281
New Features
- Radeon ReLive (1)
- In-Game Replay feature that allows you to replay your gaming moments instantly on screen.
- Scene Editor allows creation and editing of scenes for recording or streaming with transitioning options via hotkeys or Radeon Overlay.
- GIF Support allows creation of GIFs via hotkey or Radeon Overlay.
- Added platform connection support for Restream.io, Streamable and Gfycat.
- Multi-channel audio support and 16:9 streaming support.
- Radeon ReLive Game Streaming (2)
- Bringing Radeon gaming quality to your mobile devices allowing up to 4K 60fps low latency gaming with hardware acceleration. Seamlessly transition from your PC to your phone or tablet. Free on both Android and iOS via the AMD Link app.
- Radeon ReLive for VR (3)
- Bringing ultra-high PC quality VR experiences to standalone VR devices with low-level hardware acceleration optimized for streaming and recording.
- Streaming enabled via Steam, the SteamVR ecosystem* and available through the Radeon ReLive VR app.
- AMD Link (4)
- Better reliability for a stable connection.
- Get started easily with a redesigned connection process.
- Upgrade Radeon Software through your phone.
- Voice Controls for Radeon ReLive and Performance Metrics.
- Radeon WattMan support.
- Enhanced Performance metrics for capturing average, max and min FPS.
- Radeon ReLive support allows viewing screenshots, playing back video, cropping video and saving video to your mobile device.
- Radeon Overlay (5)
- Enhanced Sync controls available in display tab with per game real-time adjustment.
- Radeon FreeSync controls now found in display tab.
- Per-game color controls now available in display tab.
- Radeon WattMan is now supported in Radeon Overlay allowing for in-game power and performance optimizations.
- Performance Metrics Overlay now supports visual customization with adjustable colors, columns, position, transparency and size.
- Performance Metrics Overlay now supports a lower sample interval and frame-time measurement logging.
- Radeon Game Advisor (6)
- Measures game performance and generates a detailed report with suggestions to improve performance or increase image quality. Available through Radeon Overlay.
- Radeon Settings Advisor (6)
- Scans your system’s capabilities and provides optimization suggestions in just a few simple clicks. Available through Radeon Settings.
- Radeon Upgrade Advisor (7)
- Analyzes your PC for minimum and recommended game compatibility specifications with clear compatibility indicators in Game Explorer. Available through Radeon Settings.
- Radeon WattMan (8)
- One click tuning with Auto Overclock GPU, Auto Overclock Memory and Auto Undervolt GPU.
- Change fan speed with temperature dependent fan curves and Zero RPM fan control.
- Unlocked Radeon RX Vega series DPM states for finer power adjustments.
- Targeted optimization of memory bound applications with new memory tuning feature.
- Radeon Chill (9)
- Improved Radeon Chill efficiency allows increased power savings.
- Radeon FreeSync 2 (10)
- Improved Radeon FreeSync 2 with auto-tone mapping for a more detailed experience in HDR 10 supported games.
- Virtual Super Resolution (11)
- Now supports ultra-wide 21:9 displays.
- Radeon Installer (12)
- A new one-click express install option is now available with installation progress and percentage indicators.
Added Vulkan Support
- VK_EXT_inline_uniform_block
- This extension introduces the ability to back uniform blocks directly with descriptor sets by storing inline uniform data within descriptor pool storage.
- VK_KHR_swapchain_mutable_format
- This extension enables processing of swapchain images as different formats to that used by the window system, which is particularly useful for switching between sRGB and linear RGB formats.
- VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout
- This extension enables C-like structure layout for uniform and storage buffers, allowing non-scalar types to be aligned solely based on the size of their components.
- Sparse Support is Enabled
- Sparse support relaxes the requirement to have memory allocated and bound to resources prior to being used. It also relaxes the requirement for the bound memory to be contiguous and for the memory bindings to be immutable.
Fixed Issues
- Radeon Settings EULA screen may appear every time a reboot occurs.
- Google Earth VR fails to load or may not launch.
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey may experience a black screen when going into action phases of the game.
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey may experience a game crash or TDR in some locations of the game like performing a leap of faith or deep-diving into water.
- Forza Horizon 3 may experience a game crash on launch.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 may experience a crash on launch on AMD Ryzen desktop processors with Radeon Vega Graphics.
- A limited number of users may experience a black screen or signal loss when watching YouTube videos in full screen mode on Chrome browser.
- Battlefield 1 may experience flickering when looking at water textures.
- Strange Brigade may experience stuttering when the game is set to run in windowed mode using the Vulkan API.
- Radeon Overlay may fail to invoke when playing Kingdom Come Deliverance.
- Eyefinity advanced setup options may sometimes not appear in Radeon Settings after a driver upgrade.
Known Issues
- This release is not compatible with Microsoft PIX. For Microsoft PIX support with Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition please click here.
- Some systems running multiple displays may experience mouse lag when at least one display is enabled but powered off.
- Uninstalling Radeon Software may fail to remove Radeon Settings.
- Upgrade Advisor may intermittently fail to detect games and provide compatibility recommendations.
- Performance Metrics Overlay may change size when resolutions are changed in game.
- A port 58888 already in use error message may be observed when AMD Link Server was disabled while an IOS device client was connected.
- Radeon Overlay’s new in overlay video player may experience smoothness issues while adjusting the playback slider.
- Scene Editor may have issues with scrolling when many elements are added to a scene.
- Custom settings in Radeon WattMan may sometimes fail to apply on Radeon RX Vega series graphics products.
- Auto tuning control options fail to present the starting notification before applying in Radeon Overlay.
- Auto tuning may experience inconsistent behavior after applying Auto Overclock GPU and restarting/rebooting the system.
Have you read our Radeon Adrenalin 2019 Edition Driver Overview article already?
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#5616962 Posted on: 12/13/2018 02:40 PM
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#5616963 Posted on: 12/13/2018 02:42 PM
Umm, not out yet methinks. I tried the link, plus went to the AMD website, not available yet.
Umm, not out yet methinks. I tried the link, plus went to the AMD website, not available yet.
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#5616966 Posted on: 12/13/2018 02:48 PM
Hilbert has them linked now.
Umm, not out yet methinks. I tried the link, plus went to the AMD website, not available yet.
Hilbert has them linked now.
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#5616967 Posted on: 12/13/2018 02:49 PM
Try this one...it does not seem to be out for all GPUs yet ...this is the vega link
That worked.
Downloading now.
Try this one...it does not seem to be out for all GPUs yet ...this is the vega link
That worked.
Downloading now.
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#5616968 Posted on: 12/13/2018 02:49 PM
Updated and mirrored @ Guru3D
Updated and mirrored @ Guru3D
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#5616969 Posted on: 12/13/2018 02:50 PM
Hmmm, all I get is the link to the 18.12.1.1 driver, which I've had installed a while back.
Hilbert has them linked now.
Hmmm, all I get is the link to the 18.12.1.1 driver, which I've had installed a while back.
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#5616973 Posted on: 12/13/2018 02:55 PM
Okay, after a few refreshes, I finally got the 18.12.2 download link.....
Okay, after a few refreshes, I finally got the 18.12.2 download link.....
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#5616981 Posted on: 12/13/2018 03:08 PM
What the hell are AMD doing with drivers?
Still no SM6.1 barycentric semantics, although every GCN hardware is perfectly able to support them (in fact they support barycentric semantics on consoles and on pc with AGS).
Two years to get tiled resources working (again) on khronos vulkan? Really?
What the hell are AMD doing with drivers?
Still no SM6.1 barycentric semantics, although every GCN hardware is perfectly able to support them (in fact they support barycentric semantics on consoles and on pc with AGS).
This release is not compatible with Microsoft® PIX. For Microsoft® PIX support with Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition please click here.
Sparse Support is Enabled
Sparse support relaxes the requirement to have memory allocated and bound to resources prior to being used. It also relaxes the requirement for the bound memory to be contiguous and for the memory bindings to be immutable.
Sparse support relaxes the requirement to have memory allocated and bound to resources prior to being used. It also relaxes the requirement for the bound memory to be contiguous and for the memory bindings to be immutable.
Two years to get tiled resources working (again) on khronos vulkan? Really?
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#5617012 Posted on: 12/13/2018 03:49 PM
"This is the new Adrenalin 2019"
A letter to AMD: "Dear AMD, we've been consuming too much adrenalin lately, so it made us think we're already deep into the year 2019. Shell we try a little insulin for a change?
Marry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Your customers, from the first half of December 2018"
"This is the new Adrenalin 2019"
A letter to AMD: "Dear AMD, we've been consuming too much adrenalin lately, so it made us think we're already deep into the year 2019. Shell we try a little insulin for a change?
Marry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Your customers, from the first half of December 2018"
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#5617023 Posted on: 12/13/2018 04:08 PM
Just a headsup, if you have MSI AB (or other 3rd party util like this) and after you've installed this driver, check to see if your custom fan speed is working or not. I'd to uninstall this driver because not only did custom fan in AB not work with this driver, it seemed to mess up my card's (gigabyte RX VEGA 64 Gaming OC) own fanspeed. Couldn't even run Heaven benchmark for a few seconds (during which temp went straight up) but even when temp hit 60C, the fans on my card didn't spin (I actually took a look at the physical card, as well as the sensor on GPUZ). when temp hit 69C after mere seconds into the benchmark, I'd had to quit. Yes, the fan was spinning but pretty slowly given the temp which exceeded 70C.
Just a headsup, if you have MSI AB (or other 3rd party util like this) and after you've installed this driver, check to see if your custom fan speed is working or not. I'd to uninstall this driver because not only did custom fan in AB not work with this driver, it seemed to mess up my card's (gigabyte RX VEGA 64 Gaming OC) own fanspeed. Couldn't even run Heaven benchmark for a few seconds (during which temp went straight up) but even when temp hit 60C, the fans on my card didn't spin (I actually took a look at the physical card, as well as the sensor on GPUZ). when temp hit 69C after mere seconds into the benchmark, I'd had to quit. Yes, the fan was spinning but pretty slowly given the temp which exceeded 70C.
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#5617027 Posted on: 12/13/2018 04:12 PM
Works no issue with RDV64. Have not tested any games yet, but fan curve is still there.
Works no issue with RDV64. Have not tested any games yet, but fan curve is still there.
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#5617039 Posted on: 12/13/2018 04:24 PM
No issues here with driver managed fan controls, but don't use third party utilities for custom fan control.
No issues here with driver managed fan controls, but don't use third party utilities for custom fan control.
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#5617041 Posted on: 12/13/2018 04:27 PM
No auto-tunning for porlaris....
well, old school overclock to rescue
No auto-tunning for porlaris....
well, old school overclock to rescue
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#5617129 Posted on: 12/13/2018 08:05 PM
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#5617217 Posted on: 12/14/2018 02:15 AM
No VSR on my 21:9 with my Fury X.
I really wanted 5k 21:9 but up too 3840x1620 70hz works with CRU for me.
So I do not know what the limitation with VSR is in the driver.
Even 3840x1620 60hz worked on my R9 290x when I had it using CRU.
I really want 5k for DX10/11 older titles since only geodasoto works with DX9.
I really was wanting a Vega 56/64, but the VSR 21:9 5k makes it really tempting to just give in and get one.
No VSR on my 21:9 with my Fury X.
I really wanted 5k 21:9 but up too 3840x1620 70hz works with CRU for me.
So I do not know what the limitation with VSR is in the driver.
Even 3840x1620 60hz worked on my R9 290x when I had it using CRU.
I really want 5k for DX10/11 older titles since only geodasoto works with DX9.
I really was wanting a Vega 56/64, but the VSR 21:9 5k makes it really tempting to just give in and get one.
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#5617302 Posted on: 12/14/2018 09:38 AM
Anyone else have clocklock or overvolt issues with this driver as my card locks to state 7 after running 3dmark and overvolts too 1.292 which is very worrying.
Update on this issue
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Afterburner --- causes overvolt issues when ran in conjunction with these drivers
no scores to report due too voltage instabilities when used in conjunction with 18.12.2
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Trixx --- does not have this issue and works without ANY issue with this driver
1506mhz gpu
2250mhz mem
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Wattman --- does not overclock as well as there is no voltage adjustment over 1200mv and does driver reset in heaven if gpu clock is past 1460mhz ,ram does clock all the way upto 2250mhz(9000mhz true) but does artifact
1460mhz gpu
2100mhz ram (no artifacts)
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Anyone else have clocklock or overvolt issues with this driver as my card locks to state 7 after running 3dmark and overvolts too 1.292 which is very worrying.
Update on this issue
----------------------------
Afterburner --- causes overvolt issues when ran in conjunction with these drivers
no scores to report due too voltage instabilities when used in conjunction with 18.12.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Trixx --- does not have this issue and works without ANY issue with this driver
1506mhz gpu
2250mhz mem
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Wattman --- does not overclock as well as there is no voltage adjustment over 1200mv and does driver reset in heaven if gpu clock is past 1460mhz ,ram does clock all the way upto 2250mhz(9000mhz true) but does artifact
1460mhz gpu
2100mhz ram (no artifacts)
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#5617345 Posted on: 12/14/2018 11:27 AM
I've only run ~90 mins or so of 3DMark testing (primarily Time Spy) while I'm migrating my settings fully to WattMan but so far I haven't experienced anything like that on my Vega 56. Certainly a couple recoveries from pushing the card too hard but that was expected.
Anyone else have clocklock or overvolt issues with this driver as my card locks to state 7 after running 3dmark and overvolts too 1.292 which is very worrying.
I've only run ~90 mins or so of 3DMark testing (primarily Time Spy) while I'm migrating my settings fully to WattMan but so far I haven't experienced anything like that on my Vega 56. Certainly a couple recoveries from pushing the card too hard but that was expected.
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#5618803 Posted on: 12/19/2018 08:49 AM
this is the best driver so far i have rx480 when i benchmark my GPU CPU etc with userbenchmark my gpu performance 66 to 67% on 1266MHZ now look 69.5% i have prove
this is the best driver so far i have rx480 when i benchmark my GPU CPU etc with userbenchmark my gpu performance 66 to 67% on 1266MHZ now look 69.5% i have prove
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Awesome. Cheers!