AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 18.8.2 Driver download

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/26/2018 07:04 PM [ 26 comment(s) ]

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Download AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.2 Beta driver. This release contains support for Strange Brigade Early access.

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Support For

Strange Brigade Early Access
Codemasters: F1 2018

Known Issues

Minor corruption may be observed when launching Strange Brigade™ with Vulkan™ enabled on Windows®7 system configurations.
An application hang may occur in Strange Brigade™ on multi GPU enabled systems with both V-Sync enabled in game and Radeon FreeSync enabled on Windows®7 operating system.
Radeon Overlay may not show up when toggled in multi GPU system configurations in Strange Brigade™ with Vulkan™ enabled.

Package Contents

The Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition for Strange Brigade Early Access installation package contains the following:

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition for Strange Brigade Early Access Driver Version 18.30.11.01 (Windows Driver Store Version 24.20.13011.1004)

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Pimpiklem
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#5578097 Posted on: 08/26/2018 08:12 PM

Raider0001
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#5578100 Posted on: 08/26/2018 08:18 PM

Nvidia needs more than 0 working on theirs, they still did not manage to make support for free version of adaptive sync, its like 1 feature that would change my mind about ever buying their stuff

Pimpiklem
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#5578102 Posted on: 08/26/2018 08:23 PM

Nvidia needs more than 0 working on theirs, they still did not manage to make support for free version of adaptive sync, its like 1 feature that would change my mind about ever buying their stuff

wendell levelone done it already but was told to stop.
How i see that if nvidia were confident in their product superior performance they would give nvidia users access to freesync.
But they wont because it isn't any better.
not anymore.

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#5578104 Posted on: 08/26/2018 08:46 PM

- Cursor or system lag may be observed on some system configurations when two or more displays are connected and one display is powered off.
- Some games may experience instability or stutter when playing with FRTC and Instant Replay enabled.
- Toggling performance metrics while gaming on a non-native display resolution may cause the game to scale incorrectly.
- Radeon WattMan memory and frequency sliders may not list correct minimum values.
- Upgrade Advisor may fail to show up in Radeon Settings.
- Radeon FreeSync may fail to enable when playing Monster Hunter™: World.
- Video profiles may not correctly apply on web browser video content.
https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/amd-radeon-adrenalin-edition-18-8-1-driver-download.html

Did they suddenly fix all of these issues? I don't see any of it being mentioned in the release notes?

Also I don't understand why they won't release a "game ready" driver for the latest F1 game?

Fox2232
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#5578105 Posted on: 08/26/2018 09:10 PM

Did they suddenly fix all of these issues? I don't see any of it being mentioned in the release notes?

Also I don't understand why they won't release a "game ready" driver for the latest F1 game?
Are you judging by that what's posted here on G3D or based on real release notes from AMD?

GlennB
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#5578110 Posted on: 08/26/2018 09:26 PM

Also I don't understand why they won't release a "game ready" driver for the latest F1 game?

Think because the game is just a reskin of F1 2017 with minor tweaks at best.

Eastcoasthandle
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#5578120 Posted on: 08/26/2018 11:31 PM

A driver released on a Sunday? Is this a 1st because I don't recall doing this on a sunday.
I can only assume that the driver dept. is working overtime. Is there a link to AMD website? I just visited there and didn't see .8.2 for my card.

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#5578129 Posted on: 08/27/2018 12:41 AM

schmidtbag
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#5578135 Posted on: 08/27/2018 01:53 AM

This will end up being the first Adrenalin driver I won't be using. Thanks to Proton, I've been able to ditch Windows entirely from my gaming PC. Sure, there are a few games here and there that don't yet work, but they're all old stuff that I haven't played in years anyway (and I'm not to sure if I'll ever play them again, anyway).

ObscureangelPT
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#5578140 Posted on: 08/27/2018 02:32 AM

@schmidtbag Completely off-topic, but.. how's the performance comparing to windows native solution
Any benchmark yet? (not ditching windows, but very curious about it)

schmidtbag
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#5578156 Posted on: 08/27/2018 04:38 AM

@schmidtbag Completely off-topic, but.. how's the performance comparing to windows native solution
Any benchmark yet? (not ditching windows, but very curious about it)
There aren't a whole lot of games I tried extensively and I keep vsync on with a 60Hz display so I wouldn't be able to give you any real numbers. However, at least of everything that worked, I was able to get 60FPS and everything felt very smooth. Unfortunately, most of the games that have external DRMs were the ones that didn't run. Valve pointed out that this was probably going to happen. I'm sooo close to getting FarCry 3 to run, but I can't get Uplay to sign me in.

Proton is a bit different from "vanilla Wine" (what a weird sounding drink lol) in the sense that it's more multi-threaded and uses different libraries to handle things like DirectX. This gives it a major performance boost.

Theoretically, Linux will always have some performance loss compared to Windows when using something like Proton or Wine, because clock cycles are wasted on the compatibility layer. Furthermore, you don't get any of the application profiles that the Windows drivers come with (although if you use Nvidia, their closed-source drivers might actually have some). However, Linux is known to generally perform better than Windows in most CPU and GPU benchmarks tasks, when properly ported. This performance advantage could "level the playing field".

TL;DR
When it works, performance is adequate, but if you're a competitive gamer and care about stuff like response time, you should probably stick with Windows. I've heard how there are times where game are unplayably slow or have major visual glitches, but I don't consider that working.

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#5578177 Posted on: 08/27/2018 07:27 AM

Only issue I had with the July driver was when having FreeSync on, I get black screen at random while watching movies as well Windows mouse lag but now 18.8.1 and 18.8.2 both problems are fix. also driver release on a Sunday is odd even for AMD.

LocoDiceGR
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#5578205 Posted on: 08/27/2018 09:38 AM

I dont think its an official release yet..

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#5578206 Posted on: 08/27/2018 09:47 AM

The problem with Linux gaming is that you don't play the games you wish to play.
You play the games that you CAN play.

Which is not as bad as it sounds, as we have too many games to begin with.

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#5578225 Posted on: 08/27/2018 11:14 AM

DXVK and D3D11 and D3D10 wrapped to Vulkan and the new Proton feature from Valve which it seems supports D3D11 and D3D12 wrapped to Vulkan should have expanded the library significantly now though, anti-cheat software and similar will probably be a concern but if the game is still actively updated there's a chance for Proton at least to be whitelisted since it's backed by Valve.

There's a slight performance hit and depending on drivers some support problems or bugs could crop up as well but the latest changes to AMD and Linux seems to be improving things overall little by little for Vulkan and also OpenGL.

As for this I switched since a thunderstorm yesterday gave some free time so I de-dusted the PC and installed the driver and gave it a go, it's still doing that PCI-E filter install which gave the audio card a bit of a problem but a reboot resolved it and so far the driver is pretty much working same as 18.8.1 but it is mostly a few tweaks and geared for Strange Brigade support and it's Vulkan mode which I assume gives AMD a performance advantage, don't have any Vulkan games or software at the moment to test with though, driver components are a bit newer for some things and I used the 1.1.82.1 VLK redist but yeah can't really test the API at the moment but no other issues so far with it.

Some profile tweaks too but I don't have Crossfire so not something I can test either and the profile file is only part of the whole, driver itself could have other changes too. From searching around a bit 18.8.1 also has some additional FreeSync fix for flickering so that's one additional fix as a example though well this driver here will probably see a non-beta 18.8.2 release later this week unless AMD goes for 18.9.1 but I'm pretty sure they'll get a non-beta version out for this driver too in time for Strange Brigade's official launch and maybe with more fixes though I'm expecting the game to be the focus of the driver.

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#5578241 Posted on: 08/27/2018 12:51 PM

AMD need more than one person working on their drivers.
What a utter joke.

Strange Brigade well wow you have really been working very hard this month well done.
amazing amount of fixes and updates making nvidia look so bad.

AMD works on a big driver that is released on December, so you are completely right. Probably there is just one rookie dev doing the game support while the rest of the team is working hard on finishing the features of next big bomb driver.

But NVidia???? Do they have an schedule now??? Oh wait, they do! Add the new hardware support like Ray Tracing and AI that no older card will support. And that's not counting any Vulkan and/or DX12 improvement that may have landed too.

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#5578271 Posted on: 08/27/2018 02:21 PM

Official Release Note is Here : https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-strangebrigade

Radeon™ Software Adrenalin Edition for Strange Brigade™ Early Access Release Notes

Support For

Strange Brigade™ Early Access

Known Issues

Minor corruption may be observed when launching Strange Brigade™ with Vulkan™ enabled on Windows®7 system configurations.

An application hang may occur in Strange Brigade™ on multi GPU enabled systems with both V-Sync enabled in game and Radeon FreeSync enabled on Windows®7 operating system.

Radeon Overlay may not show up when toggled in multi GPU system configurations in Strange Brigade™ with Vulkan™ enabled.

Package Name :18.8.2

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#5578326 Posted on: 08/27/2018 03:52 PM

Did they suddenly fix all of these issues? I don't see any of it being mentioned in the release notes?

Also I don't understand why they won't release a "game ready" driver for the latest F1 game?

Anytime you see an "issue" mentioned, note the word "may" is also present--meaning that not everyone has/sees these bugs...

I almost always see that none of the issues reported apply to my hardware/software environment. Reminds me of a few years ago reading where some nVidia users assumed that because nVidia wasn't at that time putting in bug reports in their driver releases, but ATi/AMD was, that nVidia drivers didn't have any bugs...

That one was worth a sustained chuckle or two. Also, obviously, not all new games require new driver releases, etc.

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#5578377 Posted on: 08/27/2018 05:11 PM

Thank you for the heads up Boss !

GlennB
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#5578491 Posted on: 08/27/2018 08:56 PM

AMD works on a big driver that is released on December, so you are completely right. Probably there is just one rookie dev doing the game support while the rest of the team is working hard on finishing the features of next big bomb driver.

Highly doubt it's a rookie

you need a really good understanding of OpenGL/Vulkan and DX if you want to make game fixes for a driver. There are a few separate teams at work for a driver.

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#5578521 Posted on: 08/27/2018 10:14 PM

AMD need more than one person working on their drivers.
What a utter joke.

Strange Brigade well wow you have really been working very hard this month well done.
amazing amount of fixes and updates making nvidia look so bad.

NV driver history of the past months: hotfix of hotfix of hotfix. NV is producing some major BS drivers in the last 1,5-2 years.

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#5578585 Posted on: 08/28/2018 02:40 AM

Support For

Strange Brigade™
Up to 5% faster performance in Strange Brigade™ using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.2 on the Radeon™ RX Vega 64 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.1 at 3840x2160 (4K). RS-243
Up to 3% faster performance in Strange Brigade™ using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.2 on the Radeon™ RX 580 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.1 at 2560x1440 (1440p). RS-244
F1™2018

Fixed Issues

Some games may experience instability or stutter when playing with FRTC and Instant Replay enabled.
Upgrade Advisor may not appear in Radeon Settings game manager.
Far Cry™5 may experience dimmed or grey images with HDR10 enabled on some system configurations.
Far Cry™5 may experience an application hang when changing video settings on some system configurations.
Radeon Chill min and max values may not sync on multi GPU system configurations.
Radeon FreeSync may fail to enable when playing Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4.

Known Issues

Radeon FreeSync may fail to enable when playing Monster Hunter™: World.
Some DirectX®12 gaming applications may experience instability while recording with Radeon ReLive on system configurations using Radeon R9 290 and Radeon R9 390 series graphics products."
Cursor or system lag may be observed on some system configurations when two or more displays are connected and one display is powered off.
Radeon RX Vega Series graphics products may experience elevated memory clocks during system idle.
Strange Brigade™ may experience fps drops on multi GPU enabled system configurations when Enhanced Sync is enabled and Vulkan™ API is enabled.
Flickering may be observed on some displays when Radeon FreeSync is enabled with Radeon ReLive enabled and recording.
Video profiles may not correctly apply on web browser video content.

Footnotes

Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of August 22nd, 2018 on the 8GB Radeon™ RX Vega 64, on a test system comprising of Intel i7 7700X CPU (4.2 GHz), 16GB DDR4-3000 Mhz system memory, and Windows 10 x64. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. With ultra preset settings on Strange Brigade using the Vulkan API, at 3840x2160, the Radeon™ RX Vega 64 scored 59.5 FPS with Radeon™ Software 18.8.1, whereas the Radeon™ RX Vega 64 scored 62.5 FPS with Radeon™ Software 18.8.2. Comparing FPS between software versions, Radeon™ Software 18.8.2 has 5% faster performance in Strange Brigade. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RS-243.
Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of August 22nd, 2018 on the 8GB Radeon™ RX 580, on a test system comprising of Intel i7 7700X CPU (4.2 GHz), 16GB DDR4-3000 Mhz system memory, and Windows 10 x64. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. With ultra preset settings on Strange Brigade using the DirectX12 API, at 2560x1440, the Radeon™ RX Vega 580 scored 61.8 FPS with Radeon™ Software 18.8.1, whereas the Radeon™ RX Vega 580 scored 63.6 FPS with Radeon™ Software 18.8.2. Comparing FPS between software versions, Radeon™ Software 18.8.2 has 3% faster performance in Strange Brigade. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RS-244

Package Contents

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.8.2 Driver Version 18.30.11.01 (Windows Driver Store Version 24.20.13011.1009)

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-18-8-2

Did they re-release their 18.8.2 beta driver or just add a few release notes?

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#5578630 Posted on: 08/28/2018 07:15 AM

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-18-8-2

Did they re-release their 18.8.2 beta driver or just add a few release notes?

Yes 18.8.2 its been released properly...

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#5578974 Posted on: 08/28/2018 08:33 PM

Where is the guy with his amazing comparisons and findings

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#5579001 Posted on: 08/28/2018 09:17 PM

Where is the guy with his amazing comparisons and findings

In The Actual thread in Driver Section

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