Download: AMD Releases Radeon Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1 Alpha Driver

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/04/2018 08:29 PM | source: | 95 comment(s)

There has been a bit of a hype that certain DirectX 9 games have not been working with the new AMD Adrenalin drivers. Today AMD has released an early day 'Alpha' let me repeat that again .. Alpha driver. Pretty much you can install it at your own risk.

This early access driver is being provided for users who have had issues launching a small number of DirectX 9 based games. This alpha driver has not been fully tested by AMD and is not recommended for general use.

The Adrenalin drivers seem to have caused issues with a handful of 10-year old games running on the older DirectX 9 API and a growing number of people are complaining about the fact that AMD hasn't done and isn't doing anything to address the issues. Some of the games affected are crashing at startup: C&C3 Tiberium Wars, C&C3 Kane's Wrath, C&C Red Alert 3, C&C Red Alert 3 Uprising, C&C4 Tiberian Twilight, Battle for Middle Earth 1-2 and Witcher Enhanced Edition.

We have a discussion thread open on these drivers right here. Let me re-iterate that this is classified as an Alpha driver, not even Beta!

Download here.

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dsbig
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#5507344 Posted on: 01/04/2018 08:10 PM

aww you beat me to it......lol

JonasBeckman
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#5507364 Posted on: 01/04/2018 08:54 PM

Does what it says, nothing really noteworthy in the .INF or the .BLB after comparing with 17.12.2 but it's good to see this fixed although I'll wait for the next driver since this is still a work in progress.

17.50.07.02 instead of 17.50.07.01 for the driver version and from January 4th.

And the driver .dll is .2002 instead of 23.20.15007.1005

warlord
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#5507371 Posted on: 01/04/2018 09:10 PM

Do we ever had an Alpha version of any driver before?

spectatorx
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#5507380 Posted on: 01/04/2018 09:38 PM

Do we ever had an Alpha version of any driver before?

Yes, there were few drivers labeled as "alpha", even in time of ATI and now under AMD brand.

RzrTrek
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#5507386 Posted on: 01/04/2018 09:51 PM

As always, thanks for the update, but my trust for AMD has reached a new low.

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