AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition Q2 2018 is unified driver for GPU and APUs

Posted on Monday, May 21 2018 @ 12:06 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
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AMD rolled out the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition Q2 2018 driver, this is the recommended release for Windows 10 April 2018 Update. Over on Twitter, AMD's James Prior reveals this is a new unified driver release for Radeon discrete graphics and AMD Ryzen processors with Radeon Vega integrated graphics. However, some users report the driver also works for other APUs.

Other than this, the Q2 2018 release also has some bug fixes, including a fix for a long load time issue with Destiny 2:
Support For
  • Support for Windows®10 April 2018 Update
  • Support for AMD Ryzen™ Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics

    Fixed Issues
  • Destiny™2 may experience increasing load time durations when the game is run for extended periods of time.
  • Tearing may be observed in some borderless fullscreen games on Radeon FreeSync enabled displays when Radeon Software performance metrics is enabled.
  • Radeon ReLive streaming or uploading of videos to Facebook™ may intermittently fail.

    Known Issues
  • BSOD may be encountered when launching Radeon Settings if the system was not rebooted after driver installation. Workaround: Reboot the system to resolve this error.
  • Radeon Chill game specific profiles may remain applied when Radeon Chill is globally disabled.
  • Some games may experience minor stuttering during gameplay when the Radeon ReLive Instant Replay feature is enabled and FRTC is also enabled.
  • Radeon Settings video profiles may fail to enable for some video content on Chrome™ or Firefox™ web browsers.
  • Warhammer™: Vermintide 2 may experience UI flickering or disappearing on the extreme or high quality presets when using DirectX®11 API.
  • Radeon Overlay may not show all available features when some games are run in borderless fullscreen mode.
  • The Witcher™ 3: Wild Hunt may experience stuttering during gameplay.
  • You can download the release manually via this page.



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