Last month AMD moved their driver suite upwards towards the new Adrenalin drivers which offer some really nice new features and updates. However the new drivers triggered issues with older DX9 games, it seems.
The new Adrenalin drivers seem to cause 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.
Example of a users reporting an issue:
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition does not start with 17.12.1!
The problem started after the release of the new driver.
The Steam version does not work for me. Another person does not start a GOG version, and he claims that all the previous drivers (17.11.4) are doing fine!
Some of the games affected are, crashing at startup:
Some AMD Radeon users who experienced their issues took it all to Reddit, Somebody from AMD responded on its official support forums that it is "unlikely to devote any valuable engineering resources to this issue."
Thanks SH SOTN for the news submit.