It seems like we are spending more time updating drivers than playing new games lately. During the past month we have received several AMD drivers and it's more or less the same with NVIDIA. AMD has released the latest update to their Radeon GPU drivers, the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1. This version should give more DX9 compatibility and adds some multi-GPU support.



The latest version of the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1 drivers, fixes a few issues that were present before and apart from that new features has been added as well. In the case of the features, AMD has added support for a small number of DirectX9 games. In addition the software has been optimized for multi-GPU on Starcraft 2 and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds.

As always, you can download the latest AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition drivers over at AMD's support page.

Resolved Issues

• A small number of DirectX9 games may experience crashes or instability.
• Radeon FreeSync enabled system configurations may experience stuttering when using the performance metrics feature in Radeon Overlay.
• Protected video content may intermittently experience a freeze or hang during playback.
• A blank screen may be experienced while playing back videos when using Movies & TV player.
• Starcraft2 may experience corruption in multi GPU enabled system configurations.
• Bezel compensation controls when creating display groups may be misaligned or have no functionality.
• Blank videos may be experienced when playing back videos in edge browser after the system resumes from sleep.
• Color corruption may intermittently be observed in Radeon overlay with multiple gaming applications and performance metrics running.
• The Radeon WattMan fan slider may intermittently fail to change after loading profiles.
• Enhanced Sync may not enable for game profiles in Radeon Settings when using Vulkan API.
• On multi GPU enabled system configurations Player Unknowns Battlegrounds may experience menu item flickering.
• CLINFO may report incorrect values in multi GPU system configurations.

Known Issues

• Radeon Chill may fail to enable on Vulkan API games.
• Radeon Overlay hotkey may fail to bring up the overlay or may cause a Radeon Host Application crash intermittently on a limited number of gaming titles.
• Radeon FreeSync may cause stutter with Radeon ReLive Instant Replay enabled on some fullscreen games.
• Radeon Settings may experience a hang when enabling AMD CrossFire with three or more graphics products.
• Trimming videos may fail to create a thumbnail if the video contains non-English characters.
• Flickering may be observed on the performance metrics overlay when Enhanced Sync is enabled on some Radeon FreeSync connected displays.
• Performance Metrics Overlay may hang if enabled when cycling display power off and on.
• The "Reset" function in Radeon Settings for Display, ReLive, and Video may not work as intended when using Radeon Settings in certain regional languages.
• Radeon WattMan may intermittently fail to load profiles for Radeon RX Vega on the global Radeon Wattman page.
• A random system hang may be experienced after extended periods of use on system configurations using 12 GPU's for compute workloads.
• The GPU Workload feature may cause a system hang when switching to Compute while AMD CrossFire is enabled. A workaround is to disable AMD CrossFire before switching the toggle to Compute workloads.

Source: AMD