AMD has posted drivers Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1, downloadable directly from Radeon Settings or if you prefer from this page on our portal. The new release is ready not only for Windows 11, the new operating system from Microsoft, but also a Far Cry 6, Battlefield 2042 (Open Beta), Naraka: Bladepoint e la DirectX 12 mode of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
With regard to Far Cry 6, AMD does know that the new version of the drivers improves performance compared to the previous one up to 10% at Full HD Ultra settings with ray tracing enabled with a Radeon RX 6700 XT. The performance leap goes up to 12% if you take a Radeon RX 6800 XT and play in 4K at medium detail, while it reaches 13% in the case of the RX 6600 XT at 1440p always with medium details.
Turning instead to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in DirectX 12 mode, AMD indicates a performance improvement up to 11% in 4K Ultra with an RX 6800 XT compared to drivers 21.9.2. In addition to these changes, AMD has also fixed the following list of bugs:
- Playing Horizon Zero Dawn for an extended period may lead to driver timeouts or game crash on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 6700 XT.
- Driver timeouts may be experienced while playing a game & streaming a video simultaneously on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 500 Series Graphics.
- Some users may experience high idle memory clock speed values when two or more monitors are connected to their system.
- Driver timeouts may be experienced while playing The Medium on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 6700 XT.
- On full GPU load, Radeon Software may incorrectly display higher than actual GPU power consumption values.
- While playing Wreckfest or Arma 3, image corruption may be experienced when viewing foliage.