AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 Driver download

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/23/2018 07:07 PM [ 141 comment(s) ]

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Download AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 driver. This release contains WHQL support for Windows 10 April 2018, adds support for AMD Ryzen Desktop Processors with Radeon Vega Graphics, supports the launch of Ancestors Legacy and also adds support for PlayReady 3.0 on select AMD graphics products. This release also contains updates to stability with new end-user issue fixes.

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.

Support For

Windows10 April 2018 Update
AMD Ryzen Desktop Processors with Radeon Vega Graphics
Ancestors Legacy

Up to 6% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 on the Radeon RX Vega 56 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.4.1 at 1920x1080 (1080p).
Up to 13% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 on the Radeon RX 580 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.4.1 at 1920x1080 (1080p).

Microsoft PlayReady3.0

Supported on Radeon RX 400 Series and Radeon RX 500 Series desktop graphics products.

Fixed Issues

HBCC options may not properly reset to default when Radeon Settings “Restore Factory Defaults” option is selected.
Destiny2 may experience increasing load time durations when the game is run for extended periods of time.
Tearing may be observed in some borderless fullscreen games on Radeon FreeSync enabled displays when Radeon Software performance metrics is enabled.
Netflix playback through a web browser may experience corruption or hangs when using multi GPU enabled system configurations with Radeon RX 400 series or Radeon RX 500 series graphics products.
Radeon ReLive streaming or uploading of videos to Facebook may intermittently fail.

Known Issues

Some games may experience minor stuttering during gameplay when the Radeon ReLive Instant Replay feature is enabled and FRTC is also enabled.
Radeon Overlay may not show all available features when some games are run in borderless fullscreen mode.
The Witcher™ 3: Wild Hunt may experience stuttering during gameplay.
A system hang may occur on a small number of system configurations after Radeon Software installation if Radeon Settings is launched without a system reboot. A workaround is to reboot your system after install.

Package Contents

The Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 installation package contains the following:

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 Driver Version 18.10.16 (Windows Driver Store Version 24.20.11016.4)

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inouext
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#5547832 Posted on: 05/18/2018 03:42 AM

Edit:

NvidiaFreak650
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#5547847 Posted on: 05/18/2018 05:00 AM

AMD is weird, two drivers today. 18.5.1 and Q2

JonasBeckman
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#5547853 Posted on: 05/18/2018 06:01 AM

Nice, so a driver for on-board GPU's (Finally, from what I've heard.) and then 18.5.1 for desktops later today then, maybe.
(Must be recent, checked yesterday a bit before I went to bed and it was still the usual redirect and page not found, now it's a denied message so it's coming out soon hopefully.)

OnnA
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#5547886 Posted on: 05/18/2018 08:39 AM

Yo, THX for your insights

:p
It's about time...

Again if somebody have Freesync strobing problem (static loading screens)
use CRU for adjusting FS range, if done perfect then no more strobing (for me 30-75 or 29-75 and it's OK for every game, 27,28 do not work with Forza M7)
Also remember to reload settings in Adrenalin from time to time (e.g. you can save it by adjusting FPS range)

Rambo
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#5547903 Posted on: 05/18/2018 10:02 AM

NvidiaFreak650 always on the duty! Thanks for your devotion

arbys
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#5548037 Posted on: 05/18/2018 05:16 PM

So when is this driver likely to be released? Is it too late for today?

LocoDiceGR
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#5548046 Posted on: 05/18/2018 05:35 PM

So when is this driver likely to be released? Is it too late for today?

If not in a few hours...then Tuesday along with state of decay 2 launch.

OnnA
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#5548055 Posted on: 05/18/2018 06:30 PM

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition Q2 2018 Release Notes

-> https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Software-Adrenalin-Edition-Q2-2018-Release-Notes.aspx?sf189835096=1

Fury, R3xx, R2xx etc. also in .ini
Good one TBF, very stable so far
AC:O even better than the last one

arbys
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#5548061 Posted on: 05/18/2018 06:50 PM

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition Q2 2018 Release Notes

-> https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Software-Adrenalin-Edition-Q2-2018-Release-Notes.aspx?sf189835096=1

I'ts only for APUs:

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

Eastcoasthandle
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#5548074 Posted on: 05/18/2018 07:24 PM

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition Q2 2018 Release Notes

-> https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Software-Adrenalin-Edition-Q2-2018-Release-Notes.aspx?sf189835096=1

Fury, R3xx, R2xx etc. also in .ini
Good one TBF, very stable so far
AC:O even better than the last one

How did you increase your hbm from 500 to 560?

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#5548075 Posted on: 05/18/2018 07:28 PM

I'ts only for APUs:

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

No, it's also for dedicated cards. Since if you want to use hybrid crossfire, you can't install two drivers (APU+dedicated) at once.

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#5548091 Posted on: 05/18/2018 08:58 PM

How did you increase your hbm from 500 to 560?

Can't you just flash it?

The downside being that unless it's 16.11.x or older it will *show* the modified values in any software that checks but it will *run* at the default 500Mhz though timings might be adjustable but not provide the same gains.
(Something in the driver refusing to allow higher regardless even of bios modding.)

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#5548109 Posted on: 05/18/2018 10:26 PM

OnnA
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#5548110 Posted on: 05/18/2018 10:29 PM

How did you increase your hbm from 500 to 560?

Some say it can't i say it can

Through BIOS Mod (all you need is in Our BIOS thread)

Eastcoasthandle
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#5548145 Posted on: 05/19/2018 02:14 AM

Some say it can't i say it can

Through BIOS Mod (all you need is in Our BIOS thread)
Gotcha thx

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Q: Why does AMD cards take such a large hit in BF1 when flip queue size is set to 1? I'm talking around 30-40%. Fury wasn't the only card. In BF1 you have to add the binary

Right click on desktop
Select AMD Readon Settings
System
HW AMD Radeon...Primary/Discrete
Copy 2D Driver File Path
Paste in NotePad
Open Registry (regedit) and navigate to that section of the registry
Add Binary: FlipQueueSize 31 00
Reboot

Go into BF1 folder and create a file called User.cfg then add
RenderDevice.RenderAheadLimit 1

Play BF1 with reduced frame rates.

I'm starting to believe that FQS was set to either 3-4. There use to be a way to check the to see what the FQS was set to in a game but that was sometime ago.
In hindsight I see how a "youtuber" was able to get such low results in BF4 comparison.

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#5548167 Posted on: 05/19/2018 06:22 AM

Can anyone tell me if the 7850K is still supported and not EOL?? Thanks. I hope this new driver set supports it.

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#5548169 Posted on: 05/19/2018 06:47 AM

If the info I found is correct then it's Kaveri and that's supported in the INF file at least so it should work, looks like something of a 200 series GPU which is also supported being part of GCN 1.1

As for flip queue and render ahead I think DX12 has support for flip discard and waitable swap chain if using VSync (Has to be supported I believe, API standards and such.) but this needs a flip queue or render ahead value of 3 or 4 I believe, 3 I think is often the default or rather it needs back buffer count +1 or higher as I recall.
Technically supported on DX11 too but rarely used (Never?) far as I know at least.

I don't think the game uses this for DX11 though and it might be a separate issue entirely even if VSync is used.

When possible I prefer to enforce 3 back buffers and 2 flip ques or how it's called (Software, SpecialK specifically.) but I often use a software framerate cap and with VSync disabled so I might have to look up how this worked again.
(Trading input latency for stutter or framerate drops but if the GPU can keep up it shouldn't drop like that AFAIK.)

EDIT: Eh probably messing up the explanation a bit, still have a lot more to try and learn about DirectX and the graphics card and such too, it might be the cause or it might be something else the game does and dropping to a single render ahead frame value is causing the game to exhibit serious framerate drops.

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#5548192 Posted on: 05/19/2018 09:38 AM

Same as the 18.4.1 the driver didnt go live after the weekend...

So 18.5.1 Monday night/Tuesday!

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#5548196 Posted on: 05/19/2018 09:50 AM

i play with R9 290 bf1/rise of tomb raider/deus ex mankind/ashes of singularity with Q2 2018 just fine !!!

OnnA
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#5548205 Posted on: 05/19/2018 10:24 AM

Gotcha thx

-----
Q: Why does AMD cards take such a large hit in BF1 when flip queue size is set to 1? I'm talking around 30-40%. Fury wasn't the only card. In BF1 you have to add the binary

Right click on desktop
Select AMD Readon Settings
System
HW AMD Radeon...Primary/Discrete
Copy 2D Driver File Path
Paste in NotePad
Open Registry (regedit) and navigate to that section of the registry
Add Binary: FlipQueueSize 31 00
Reboot

Go into BF1 folder and create a file called User.cfg then add
RenderDevice.RenderAheadLimit 1

Play BF1 with reduced frame rates.

I'm starting to believe that FQS was set to either 3-4. There use to be a way to check the to see what the FQS was set to in a game but that was sometime ago.
In hindsight I see how a "youtuber" was able to get such low results in BF4 comparison.

This is CPU dependant.
I have 3 and in BF1
RenderDevice.RenderAheadLimit 3

If you have good CPU then 2-3 is a must.... rest will get better FPS in 1

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#5548343 Posted on: 05/19/2018 11:19 PM

Driver had a last min bug which cause delay for Friday but resume for Monday time of launch for State of Decay 2.

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#5548354 Posted on: 05/20/2018 03:38 AM

This driver update can't come soon enough.

LocoDiceGR
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#5548407 Posted on: 05/20/2018 10:28 AM

Driver had a last min bug which cause delay for Friday but resume for Monday time of launch for State of Decay 2.

Have u joined the Software Vanguard program? :rolleyes:

They have invite me, but i havent joined the discord yet lol.

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#5548575 Posted on: 05/21/2018 06:30 AM

Somebody woke up. There's no longer error message upon loading link, but nothing shown.

LocoDiceGR
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#5548591 Posted on: 05/21/2018 07:38 AM

Somebody woke up. There's no longer error message upon loading link, but nothing shown.

Isnt to early for them to wake up?

But yea its just blank page now.

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