AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 18.8.2 Driver download
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Pimpiklem
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.
Raider0001
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
RzrTrek
Fox2232
GlennB
Eastcoasthandle
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.
KissSh0t
schmidtbag
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
@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
NvidiaFreak650
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. https://i.imgur.com/urhfUbF.png
LocoDiceGR
Noisiv
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.
JonasBeckman
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.
darkcoder
Komachi
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;)
waltc3
chispy
Thank you for the heads up Boss !
GlennB