AMD Radeon Software Crimson 15.11.1 Hotfix

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/01/2015 09:50 AM [ 35 comment(s) ]

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You can now download the new AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition drivers hotfix release 15.11.1.

AMD released Radeon Software Crimson Edition 15.11.1 Update. This update fixes last weeks release to build 15.11.1 and fixes an important issue with VGA fan speed control that overheated GPUs in certain ROPM conditions. In addition, the driver addresses several game-specific bugs related to Just Cause 3, Fallout 4, Star Wars: Battlefront, and Call of Duty Black Ops III.

The new driver itself is called "AMD Radeon Software" and has been build from ground up in QT. It's fast in startup, has had a massive GUI change and introduces some new features including stuff from shader caching to DX9 frame pacing enhancements. AMD is committed to release up-to 6 major WHQL driver released per year with interim Beta and Hotfix releases as well.

The AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition contains the following:

Resolved Issues with AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 15.11.1 Update

[82050] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Snow flickers in a few locations in the game
[82240] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Sky rendering may be broken in some game locations
[82645] Fallout 4 - The compass may flicker during gameplay on AMD Radeon R9 390 series products. We continue to investigate the issue with AMD Radeon R9 290 and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 series products
[82667] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Shadowy textures are visible around hills/structures/caves
[81890] Just Cause 3 - Texture corruption may be experienced during gameplay
[54874] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Poor AMD Crossfire™ performance may be experienced
[82338] The driver installation may fail while installing the ACP component
[82426] The font size in Chinese language installations may be too small
[82438] The label range values in some AMD Freesync™ installations may be incorrect
[82536] The Radeon Settings dropbox does not close when it is clicked on a second time
[82603] The AMD Overdrive™ fan settings is always set to ON after first edit on reboot
[82586] Language shows up as Chinese Simplified when Chinese Traditional is selected in Windows® 7
[82656] Radeon Settings crashes on the Display tab when cloning a display via HDMI on some notebooks
[82671] Overdrive™ fan speed is reset to Manual on exiting from a 3D game or application
[82766] Radeon Settings does not get upgraded in some install scenarios
[82691] AMD Overdrive™ cannot revert to default settings in some situations

Known Issues with AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 15.11.1 Update

[82789] Total War™ : Rome II : Choppy gameplay may be experienced
[82788] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Frame freezing during gameplay may be experienced
[82794] Just Cause 3 - The system may hang when task switching on systems with AMD CPUs and GPUs
[82775] Just Cause 3 - Flickering may be experienced during gameplay and on menu screens
[82778] Anno 2205 - Water splatter may flicker during in Ultra high mode on 4K displays
[82779] Fallout 4 - Gameplay may be choppy in AMD Freesync™ mode in Ultra mode at 1440p resolution

Download Locations

Download Windows 10 32-bit (Desktop) [ 4933 downloads ]

Download Windows 10 64-bit (Desktop) [ 25605 downloads ]

Download Windows 7 / 8.1 (32-Bit) [ 5235 downloads ]

Download Windows 7 / 8.1 (64-Bit) [ 16608 downloads ]

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awatz
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#5200030 Posted on: 12/02/2015 03:05 AM

can I just install this over the previous Crimson driver or should I do a clean install?

AgentOrange
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#5200201 Posted on: 12/02/2015 11:06 AM

I. Should. Have. Used. Sarcasm. Tags.
Lost. in. Translation.
Was. You. Sarcastic. Too?

Ha, sorry! Completely missed the sarcasm, d'oh! :heh:

@Cowie...I don't doubt that if my fans were stuck at 20% my card(s) would fry, and for sure those whose cards were stuck at 20% would be annoyed. Personally I was not one, and now the 'hot'-fix is in it should hopefully be sorted now anyway.

If your fans are stuck at 20% and Powertune is not kicking in properly with those drivers for you then absolutely it's a problem and if it was me I would be screaming at AMD for sure!

ScaryClown
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#5200210 Posted on: 12/02/2015 11:29 AM

My R9 290 went suspiciously slient after installing Crimson while playing AC Syndicate. After a while it started stuttering. I exited the game and behold, MSI Afterburner reported 94C and only ~400 Mhz on core clock. So i enabled custom fan settings and everything worked fine. Even better actually.
Now my card runs ~80C, fan is a bit louder but its not a concern to me.....exept its lifespan maybe....
Anyways, downloading fix....

ScaryClown
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#5200212 Posted on: 12/02/2015 11:32 AM

I don't think it's at all implausible that this could damage cards. If the heatsink is heatsoaked then it can't take any more thermal energy so any extra heat is going to go into the PCB and surrounding components because that's the only place for it to go. This is going to happen much more slowly in a situation where the fans are only partially cooling the heatsink, putting extra thermal load on the PCB.

I find it pretty ridiculous that there are some guys calling other people out as liars; if you're one of those people then all it does is make you look like a total fanboy idiot and apologist tbh

Somebody loves nvidia.....

morbias
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#5200237 Posted on: 12/02/2015 12:43 PM

Yes, which is why I haven't bought one of their cards for 5 years :rolleyes:

My point is you can kill any card this way, the pcb is a bunch of copper tracks - it's basically a heatsink. Just because the gpu has thermal protection doesn't mean other components are safe. To suggest otherwise goes against the laws of physics.

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