AMD is battle-ready with performance-enhancing Adrenalin 21.11.2 drivers in Battlefield 2042

Battlefield 2042 debuts today, at least for those who have purchased the Gold or Ultimate Edition, but also EA Play Pro subscribers. The game will then be available to everyone on November 19th. AMD however, he wasted no time and for this he published one new driver release, i Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 (downloadable from here), which is aimed precisely at the new game from DICE and Electronic Arts.

The company promises performance improvements of more than 10% compared to the latest version of October, 21.10.4. More precisely, the company claims that the RX 6900 XT, 6800 XT and 6700 XT cards can see their performance increase up to 14%, 15% and 11% respectively when playing at 4K resolution with Ultra details.

the release notes report the existence of some bugs still open, such as a driver timeout problem on some solutions like the RX 5500 XT during the gameplay of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. They don’t tell us – as it does another bulletin – which AMD engineers have in recent weeks fixed a long list of security flaws in drivers for Windows 10 over the course of months.

AMD has closed even large vulnerabilities that allowed it execute arbitrary code and elevate system privileges on vulnerable systems. “In a comprehensive analysis of AMD Escape calls, a potential set of weaknesses was discovered in several APIs, which could result in privilege escalation, denial of service attacks, information disclosure, bypassing KASLR, or arbitrary writing. in kernel memory, “AMD explained.

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The company thanks independent security researchers Ori Nimron (@ orinimron123) and driverThru_BoB 9th, as well as Eran Shimony of CyberArk Labs and Lucas Bouillot of Apple Media Products RedTeam for reporting the leaks. Still on the subject of safety, in another bulletin AMD announces that it has solved several issues related to the first, second and third generation EPYC server processors.

“Potential vulnerabilities were discovered in AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP), AMD System Management Unit (SMU), AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and other platform components during security analysis with Google, Microsoft and Oracle and have been mitigated through AMD EPYC AGESA PI packages “, says the US company.