AMD’s Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 Drivers Available For Download – Performance Boost In Rise of The Tomb Raider and AOTS DX12

[Mr_Troll]

AMD’s Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 Drivers Available For Download – Performance Boost In Rise of The Tomb Raider and AOTS DX12
 

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AMD has launched their latest Crimson Edition 16.2 driver which brings a range of performance increases in AAA titles along with bug fixes. The Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 drivers specifically eye the Rise of the Tomb Raider and Ashes of The Singularity releases where bulk of the performance enhancements would be centered around.

 

 

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 Drivers Brings Performance Boost, Bug Fixes and CrossFire Profiles to Radeon Users
 

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The two key titles which will be getting major performance and quality improvements from the Crimson Edition 16.2 drivers are Ashes of the Singularity and Rise of the Tomb Raider. Since launch, NVIDIA had a upper hand in Rise of the Tomb Raider with their GeForce cards which dominated the benchmarks. The game was bundled with GeForce 900 series cards and the performance was impacted on Radeon cards mostly due to non-availability of game ready drivers. With the latest 16.2 drivers, Radeon users will see a good boost in performance with enhanced quality that will put them on par with their GeForce counter parts.

 

The second title to see a massive performance increase is not a fully released game (yet) but the second benchmark to Stardock’s Ashes of the Singularity title which is currently in BETA state. The title is loaded with tons of DirectX 12 goodness and unlike Tomb Raider, AMD has had pretty good driver support for the title due to them working close with the developers compared to NVIDIA which have yet to issue a capable driver for the title. The second benchmark makes use of several performance improving techniques that’re featured in DirectX 12 API such as Asynchronous Compute, multi-GPU / Explicit multi-adapter support and multi-threaded command buffer Re-ordering. AMD has demonstrated really good performance in the DX12 benchmark as can be seen in our own analysis of the Beta.

 

long side the performance increases, AMD also added CrossFire profiles for The Division and XCOM 2. Bug fixes were mainly focused for Rise of the Tomb Raider and Fallout 4 along with back-end tweaks. The 16.2 drivers will work with all GCN enabled product families which include AMD Radeon 300, AMD Radeon 200, AMD Radeon HD 8000 series, AMD Radeon HD 7000 series (desktop/mobile) cards and also Kaveri, Carrizo and Godavari APUs

 

 

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 Highlights

 

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• AMD has partnered with Stardock in association with Oxide to bring gamers Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2.0 the first benchmark to release with DirectX 12 benchmarking capabilities such as Asynchronous Compute, multi-GPU and multi-threaded command buffer Re-ordering. Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 is optimized to support this exciting new release.

• The SteamVR Performance Test: we are pleased to report that our Radeon R9 390, Nano, and Fury series GPUs are all able to achieve ‘VR Recommended’ status, the highest achievable level of experience possible. In addition to that, our affinity multi-GPU feature is already showing significant performance uplift over a single GPU on Radeon cards in the aforementioned benchmark

 

Performance and quality improvements for:

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  • Rise of the Tomb Raider
  • Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2
  • Crossfire Profiles available for
  • The Division
  • XCOM 2

   

Resolved Issues

 

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  • A black screen/TDR error may be encountered when booting a system with Intel + AMD graphics and an HDMI monitor connected
  • Choppy gameplay may be experienced when both AMD Freesync and AMD Crossfire are both enabled
  • Display corruption may be observed after keeping system idle for some time
  • Fallout 4 – Flickering may be experienced at various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire enabled
  • Fallout 4 – Foliage/water may ripple/stutter when game is launched in High/Ultra settings mode
  • Fallout 4 – Screen tearing in systems with both AMD Freesync and AMD Crossfire enabled if game is left idle for a short period of time
  • Fallout 4 – Thumbnails may flicker or disappear while scrolling the Perk levels page
  • Far Cry 4 – Stuttering may be observed when launching the game with AMD Freesync and AMD Crossfire enabled
  • FRTC options are displayed on some unsupported laptop configurations with Intel CPU’s and AMD GPU’s
  • Radeon Settings may sometimes fails to launch with a “Context Creation Error” message
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider – Corruption can be observed at some locations during gameplay
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider – Flickering may be experienced at various game locations when the game is left idle in AMD Crossfire  mode under Windows 7
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider – Game may intermittently crash or hang when launched with very high settings and AA is set to SMAA at 4K resolution
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider – Lara Croft’s hair may flicker in some locations if the Esc key is pressed
  • Rise of Tomb Raider – A TDR error may be observed with some AMD Radeon 300 Series products after launching the “Geothermal Valley” mission
  • The AMD Overdrive  memory clock slider does not show original clock values if memory speeds are overclocked
  • World of Warcraft runs extremely slowly in quad crossfire at high resolutions

   

Known Issues

 

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  • A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved “In Game Overlay”
  • Star Wars™: Battlefront – Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
  • Cannot enable AMD Crossfire with some dual GPU AMD Radeon HD 59xx and HD 79xx series products
  • Fallout 4 – In game stutter may be experienced if the game is launched with AMD Crossfire enabled
  • XCOM 2 – Flickering textures may be experienced at various game locations
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider™ – The game may randomly crash on launch if Tessellation is enabled
  • Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption

  Still no downclock bugfix. damn it

Source:http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD_Radeon_Software_Crimson_Edition_16.2.aspx

http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-software-crimson-edition-16-2-driver/

[atrash]

Holy quotes..

[Mew]

The last known issue.......

[MilkJugg24]

5 hours ago, Mr_Troll said:

World of Warcraft runs extremely slowly in quad crossfire at high resolutions

 

Gave me a giggle. 

 

They still need to fix the artifacting when placing reinforcements on the ground in rainbow six still....

[rattacko123]

And when you thought AMD could not gain a further advantage in AOTS

[Notional]

Do anyone have any benches on this driver with Tomb Raider? I'm not really seeing any difference tbh. Maybe it's less framerate drops or something.

[testarossa47]

Battlefront 2 still not fixed....

[Prysin]

17 minutes ago, testarossa47 said:

Battlefront 2 still not fixed....

2 or 3?

Cuz BF2 is bloody ancient.... but i know the pain. Me and some friends tried to play a LAN match, it was horrible

[testarossa47]

6 minutes ago, Prysin said:

2 or 3?

Cuz BF2 is bloody ancient.... but i know the pain. Me and some friends tried to play a LAN match, it was horrible

Battlefront 2 (from 2005 i think). Since Crimson there are missing some floor textures. BF2 is one of my favourite games and it sucks that that's the only one that doesn't work with latest drivers... I already reportet this to AMD as many others as well, but for an old game they won't pay attention to it I guess.... Might switch to NVIDIA since there older games don't have so much issues

[Trixanity]

5 minutes ago, testarossa47 said:

Battlefront 2 (from 2005 i think). Since Crimson there are missing some floor textures. BF2 is one of my favourite games and it sucks that that's the only one that doesn't work with latest drivers... I already reportet this to AMD as many others as well, but for an old game they won't pay attention to it I guess.... Might switch to NVIDIA since there older games don't have so much issues

You're talking about a single title. Nvidia has those problems too. They don't bother with it if it's old and/or irrelevant to most users. 

[testarossa47]

Just now, Trixanity said:

You're talking about a single title. Nvidia has those problems too. They don't bother with it if it's old and/or irrelevant to most users. 

I read in other forums that people often had such issues with AMD (also with other titles) but it was better on NVIDIA.. IDK if that's actually true since I always had AMD. I'm sure that NVIDIA has this type of issue as well on single titles but apparently it is generally less of an issue with team green... You have any experiences regarding this old titles issue?

[Cpt Buzzkill]

4 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

You're talking about a single title. Nvidia has those problems too. They don't bother with it if it's old and/or irrelevant to most users. 

I Played many ancient games with NVidia card (including BF2) and I never had any problems in running, in textures nothing. sssooo yeh.

[Cpt Buzzkill]

2 minutes ago, testarossa47 said:

I read in other forums that people often had such issues with AMD (also with other titles) but it was better on NVIDIA.. IDK if that's actually true since I always had AMD. I'm sure that NVIDIA has this type of issue as well on single titles but apparently it is generally less of an issue with team green... You have any experiences regarding this old titles issue?

Huge starwars fan here, can confirm that Nvidia cards run them wonderful. going down to diablo 2 which runs amazing.

[testarossa47]

1 minute ago, Cpt Buzzkill said:

Huge starwars fan here, can confirm that Nvidia cards run them wonderful. going down to diablo 2 which runs amazing.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I almost certain that I'll buy an Nvidia card for my next build (because of this and also because I never had one)

[Trixanity]

12 minutes ago, testarossa47 said:

I read in other forums that people often had such issues with AMD (also with other titles) but it was better on NVIDIA.. IDK if that's actually true since I always had AMD. I'm sure that NVIDIA has this type of issue as well on single titles but apparently it is generally less of an issue with team green... You have any experiences regarding this old titles issue?

 

11 minutes ago, Cpt Buzzkill said:

I Played many ancient games with NVidia card (including BF2) and I never had any problems in running, in textures nothing. sssooo yeh.

Yup. Heroes VI. Unplayable on Nvidia cards. Black textures everywhere. Just fine on AMD.

 

That's also what single/individual titles mean. The problems are unique to that title and/or graphics card. 

 

Edit: also the game isn't even that old and the problem was there only a couple of years after the release. I haven't tested it recently but at the time Nvidia (if I recall correctly) stated they were not going to fix it. 

[Cpt Buzzkill]

24 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

 

Yup. Heroes VI. Unplayable on Nvidia cards. Black textures everywhere. Just fine on AMD.

 

That's also what single/individual titles mean. The problems are unique to that title and/or graphics card. 

 

Edit: also the game isn't even that old and the problem was there only a couple of years after the release. I haven't tested it recently but at the time Nvidia (if I recall correctly) stated they were not going to fix it. 

Heroes of might and magic? are you sure they haven't fixed it because I think I played that on my 660 and 750 ti back in the day... hmmmm odd, anyway its all down to prefrences really.

[rattacko123]

40 minutes ago, Cpt Buzzkill said:

I Played many ancient games with NVidia card (including BF2) and I never had any problems in running, in textures nothing. sssooo yeh.

Just Cause 2 and Supreme commander either don't work or crash within 10 minutes on my nvidia computer, while on my amd compootah it's fine.

I'm not saying it's only Nvidia with problems, both AMD and Nvidia don't work in certain games. For example I couldn't get age of empires II and heroes of might and magic 3 to work on my amd computer (without major graphical problems), but that might be related to the OS (windows 7).

[Cpt Buzzkill]

8 minutes ago, rattacko123 said:

Just Cause 2 and Supreme commander either don't work or crash within 10 minutes on my nvidia computer, while on my amd compootah it's fine.

I'm not saying it's only Nvidia with problems, both AMD and Nvidia don't work in certain games. For example I couldn't get age of empires II and heroes of might and magic 3 to work on my amd computer (without major graphical problems), but that might be related to the OS (windows 7).

yeh could be the OS really... hhmm odd anyway there is usually fix and way around for both cards ^^

[Humbug]

I've played lots of old games on my AMD R9 290. Can't recall any issues...

 

14 hours ago, Notional said:

Do anyone have any benches on this driver with Tomb Raider? I'm not really seeing any difference tbh. Maybe it's less framerate drops or something.

Older GCN 1.0 GPUs seem to be showing improvement in some scenes...

 

 

[nims0c]

Why doesn't this update show up when I click "Check for Updates" in Radeon Settings? AMD's Autodetect utility says the same. It says I currently have Radeon Software version 15.12.

[7850OC]

Rise of Tomb Raider PC also have TressFX like the Tomb Raider 2013 ?

[don_svetlio]

47 minutes ago, 7850OC said:

Rise of Tomb Raider PC also have TressFX like the Tomb Raider 2013 ?

Yes. It's called Pure Hair

[Clyne]

Yeah umm still waiting for 3DMark GPU Clock fix....

Firestrike stuck at GPU stock clocks instead of manufacture stock clocks...

[byalexandr]

Cool, installing now. I don't play either of those games but if it's not worse than 16.1 then I suppose why not.

[PatrikStar24]

On 2/26/2016 at 2:30 AM, testarossa47 said:

Battlefront 2 (from 2005 i think). Since Crimson there are missing some floor textures. BF2 is one of my favourite games and it sucks that that's the only one that doesn't work with latest drivers... I already reportet this to AMD as many others as well, but for an old game they won't pay attention to it I guess.... Might switch to NVIDIA since there older games don't have so much issues

There is a workaround that fixes this

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To Fix:

1. Go to https://mega.nz/#F!8tlAhDyQ!2AkAQukJKAYuIWEzDTGtFA!IslFkTSL
2. Click on Direct X 9.0
3. Right Click on 14.12.zip
4. Do a Standard Download
5. Extract Files to Same location as BattlefrontII.exe

This will prevent you from having to do a driver "rollback" simply by using older AMD Driver Dlls.

Disclaimer: Some people have reported the game crashes when applying this fix. If this is happening to you use a different Driver Version under DirectX 9.0 for Step 3. Not all drivers may be supported by your AMD GPU which might cause your game to crash at launch.