AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.1 Hotfix

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(Edit: Seems they got crabby about the direct linking to the two files, removed them and put link to the notes, the download links are there)

1/7/2016 release date

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-art...rimson-Edition-16.1-Hotfix-Release-Notes.aspx

Compatible Operating Systems

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.1 Hotfix Driver is designed to support the following Microsoft® Windows® platforms:

Windows® 10 (32 & 64-bit version)
Windows 8.1 (32 & 64-bit version)
Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit version with SP1 or higher)

Resolved Issues

[82645] Fallout 4 – The compass flickers during gameplay on AMD Radeon™ R9 290 and AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2
[84118]/[59475] Elite: Dangerous - Poor performance may be experienced in Supercruise mode under Windows® 10
[82887] The driver installer appears to hang at various stages of the install process
[84116] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – random frame freezes may be observed during gameplay
[84112] Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC) setting do not apply consistently to all games. In order for FRTC to function properly, Vertical Refresh/VSync must be turned off
[58978] DiRT Rally – A crash may occur when starting a new race with AMD Crossfire™ and AMD FreeSync™ enabled
[83370] The AMD Gaming Evolved overlay may cause a black screen, or introduce game stutter
[82497] Assassins Creed Syndicate - Using "Very High" graphics settings in 3x1 Eyefinity mode may cause displays to switch off
[82093] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Some flickering may be experienced in shaded areas of the screen while game levels are loading
[82788] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Frame freezing during gameplay may be experienced
[82794] Just Cause 3 - The system may hang when task switching on systems with AMD CPUs and GPUs
[82777] Just Cause 3 - Application profile setting added for laptops with Switchable Graphics
[82779] Fallout 4 - Gameplay may be choppy in AMD FreeSync™ mode in Ultra mode at 1440p resolution
[82895] Fallout 4 - Brightness flickering observed with AMD FreeSync™ enabled on certain displays
[80254] cnext.exe intermittently crashes during Windows® shutdown
[81809] A crash may be experienced if an HDMI™ display is a cloned display device on an HP Envy 15 notebook
[82485] "Failed to create OpenGL context" error message may appear after installation
[82842] "Cannot find RadeonSettings.exe" error message may appear during installation
[83277] "AMD Install Manager has stopped working" error message may appear during installation
[83484] "Cannot find cncmd.exe" error message may appear during installation
[82902] Display may flicker on certain laptops after prolonged gameplay with AMD FreeSync™ enabled
[81489] Unable to create 4x1 or 2x1 portrait mode SLS with 4K displays
[82042] Video corruption may appear in Movies & TV app when is VSR enabled and scaling mode is set to "Full panel"
[82492] Portrait Eyefinity mode may not be configured correctly using Radeon Additional Settings
[82695] No display on certain laptops when toggling display mode or connecting an HDMI™ display
[82900]/[81859] Flickering may be experienced on some monitors when AMD FreeSync™ is enabled
[80064] Notifications reverting back to English on non-English systems after reboot
[82490] Misaligned UI may be observed on the Bezel Compensation screen
[81777] Launching a game from the Game Manager may launch on a single display after enabling and disabling AMD CrossFire™ in a 3x1 AMD Eyefinity™ setup
[81856] Marginally increased power consumption may be observed during video playback

Known Issues

[79428] StarCraft II: Flickering may be observed in the 'Episode 3' campaign
[80836]/[59701] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Flickering or poor performance may be experienced when running in AMD Crossfire™ mode
[81736] Call of Duty Online - The game may crash if the Print Screen key is pressed on a 4K monitor
[81448]/[77961] A system restart may be experience when waking the system from sleep mode on some systems with Intel processors
[81651] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Texture corruption may be experienced if the game "Field of View" setting is > 100
[82213] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Some users may experience minor flickering or corruption at different game location or while viewing the in-game cinematics
[81915] Assassin's Creed Syndicate - Building textures may be missing on some AMD Freesync™ displays with VSync enabled
[82387] Assassin's Creed Syndicate - The game may crash if the Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay" is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"
[82789] Total War™: Rome II - Choppy gameplay may be experienced
[84509] Gaming Evolved client does not initiate when launching Metro Last Light if AMD CrossFire™ is enabled
[84434] Far Cry 4 – A crash may occur after performing (ALT + Enter) to switch between windowed/full screen modes with the AMD Gaming Evolved "Video Capture" feature turned on
[82499] Talos Principle - A crash may occur while changing Gaming Evolved Video settings or pressing ALT + Enter when "In Game Overlay" is enabled
[84591] Mad Max – Low FPS performance may be experienced in game when AMD FreeSync™ and AMD CrossFire™ are enabled
[84428] Battlefield Hardline – A crash may occur when changing graphics settings from "Ultra" to "High" during gameplay
[83839] Some games may experience brightness flickering with AMD FreeSync™ enabled
[83833] Radeon Settings - AMD OverDrive™ clock gauge needles for the secondary GPU may be in wrong position when the system is idle and the secondary GPU is inactive
[83832] Radeon Settings – AMD OverDrive™ Power setting changes on the secondary GPU are not immediately displayed. This is seen only on dual GPU graphics cards, such as the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990 and Radeon R9 295x2
[83287] Game stuttering may be experienced when running two AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2 graphics cards in AMD CrossFire™ mode
[82892] Display corruption may occur on multiple display systems when it has been running idle for some time
[83031] Star Wars™: Battlefront – Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
[82824] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – Flickering may be observed is task switching is used during gameplay
[81915] Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Building textures are missing and game objects stutter if VSync is enabled in Quad AMD Crossfire configurations
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Awesome. Installing these on my 290 box now. The gf has been playing a lot of Fallout 4, she will be pleased.
 
Everything is running so smoothly for me I'm actually thinking of staying as-is and skipping this release. :eek:
 
I'll have to try some more games later. Have only played Lords of the Fallen since installing this, and I wasn't exactly having issues with that game before.

Interested to see if it fixes some issues I've been having with GTA V performance.
 
has this release brought the 390 performance upto the level of the 970 in FO4? I was thinking of getting a 390 to play FO4 on until the new NV cards came out until I saw how badly it performed compared to the 970.
 
Went ahead and upgraded, fast, smooth, and everything operational. I'm really liking these new Crimson drivers.

What I am curious about was the option for minimal install with a 12MB download(!). Anyone try it?
 
I can't say I'm happy with Crimson. I've got v15.12 loaded, and it says I'm "up to date". Well, if there's a hotfix 16.1 out, I don't think I'm really up to date.

I only got 15.12 via autoupdate once 16.1 came out. While 15.12 was out, my install was happily telling me that my 15.11 was also "up to date".

Crimson is one version out of date and happy.
 
c3k said:
I can't say I'm happy with Crimson. I've got v15.12 loaded, and it says I'm "up to date". Well, if there's a hotfix 16.1 out, I don't think I'm really up to date.

I only got 15.12 via autoupdate once 16.1 came out. While 15.12 was out, my install was happily telling me that my 15.11 was also "up to date".

Crimson is one version out of date and happy.
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Heaven forbid you have to manually update your video card driver...You can do it!:D
 
primetime said:
Heaven forbid you have to manually update your video card driver...You can do it!:D
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LOL! Thanks. ;) It's just so hard... files, downloads, user agreements. I only have so many clicks left in my life...

I don't care about doing it manually: my issue is that the Crimson version checker has never given correct information to me.
 
I don't understand why they removed the Advanced Video Settings. I have not updated my HTPC. It seems like a step backwards to me.
 
htpc_user said:
I don't understand why they removed the Advanced Video Settings. I have not updated my HTPC. It seems like a step backwards to me.
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It’s a pain in the butt. They removed things with no warning or info about if or when they are coming back. I ended up making a clean install partition for Win7 and movies. It would happen a few times a year. Upgrade the drivers and then PowerDVD don’t work or something else. Now no hot keys for presets and you can’t make a full preset.

I know they see folks with a HTPC or more than one monitor or two GPUs as niche and not worth supporting but why give us the finger too?
 
They removed anything that can already be done through windows itself.

install ultramon if you want to res-switch on the fly.
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htpc_user said:
I don't understand why they removed the Advanced Video Settings. I have not updated my HTPC. It seems like a step backwards to me.
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Not like you should have any of those turned on anyway.. which can be accomplished by selecting Custom.
 
c3k said:
I can't say I'm happy with Crimson. I've got v15.12 loaded, and it says I'm "up to date". Well, if there's a hotfix 16.1 out, I don't think I'm really up to date.

I only got 15.12 via autoupdate once 16.1 came out. While 15.12 was out, my install was happily telling me that my 15.11 was also "up to date".

Crimson is one version out of date and happy.
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Maybe "hotfix" counts as "beta" for purposes of the auto-update functionality. Or maybe there's just some lag time between then the drivers get posted to the website and when they get added to whatever database Radeon Settings queries when checking for new versions. Either way, it definitely feels like their driver team is more agile these days.
 
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