Driver Highlights:
AMD Freesync Support for single GPU product configurations:
- AMD Freesync technology support is now available for single GPU configurations.
Please refer to the screenshot below for how to enable FreeSync within Catalyst Control Center. In addition this release includes new Crossfire profiles for:
- Battlefield Hardline
- Evolve
- Far Cry 4
- Lords of the Fallen
- Project Cars
- Total War: Attila
Furthermore, this release includes improved Crossfire profiles for:
- Alien Isolation
- Assassin's Creed Unity
- Civilization - Beyond Earth
- FIFA 2015
- Grid Autosport
- Ryse: Son of Rome
- Talos Principle
- The Crew
Resolved Issues:
- Screens may blank out when enabling a 3x1 SLS with 3 HDMI monitors
- Leadwerks : Project Manager crashes with a "Pure Virtual Function Call" error
- Second Life : Rigged mesh objects are not rendered correctly when hardware skinning is enabled in the in game settings
- Star Trek Online : Block corruption is experienced when MSAA is enabled in the in game settings
- System hangs/BSOD upon resuming from S3/S4 sleep on AMD Radeon™ R9 285 configured in AMD CrossFire mode
- With AMD CrossFire™ enabled, Timeout Detection Recovery (TDR) occurs during actual gameplay when YouTube Mix moves to the next song in Firefox
- Screen tearing on enabling VSync with Alien: Isolation game
- Catalyst Control Center Video Quality settings may not be available or retained if the "Enforce Smooth Video Playback" option is not selected on some AMD HD series GPU's.
- Primary display may not be retained after disabling Crossfire while in Eyefinity mode
- Enabling or disabling Crossfire may lead to one side of the 4K MST display being shown as black
- Minor stuttering may be seen in Dragon Age Inquisition on Single and Multi GPU configurations***8203;
- Total War : Attilla - The game may hang during in game cinematics on certain Kaveri platforms with a separate discrete GPU
- The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim : Fog / Clouds may flicker on Radeon HD 5800 series products
Important Note:
The AMD CrossFire™ profile for Dying Light is currently disabled in this driver while AMD works with Techland to investigate an issue where AMD CrossFire configurations are not performing as intended. An update is expected on this issue in the near future through an updated game patch or an AMD driver posting.
Known Issues:
- Lord of Fallen : Flickering may be observed during gameplay on some 3D monitors
- FIFA 2015 : On a limited number of AMD APU + AMD GPU configurations a crash may be experienced if the "No Limit on FPS" game option is enabled
- Dragon Age inquisition : Random game crashes may be experienced in Mantle mode
- The Catalyst Control Center may hang when using the 'Check for Updates" option
- Battlefield 4 : Screen tearing / Stutter may be experienced in Three way Crossfire setup in Eyefinity mode
- A black screen may be experienced when attempting to enable Eyefinity after changing the display mode (Portrait, Landscape)
- Pull down detection fails to lock in Metro Video playback applications
- A system restart or hang may be observed on sleep/resume while transcoding video with Media Espresso
- Battlefield Hardline : Changing resolution from low to high and enabling Vsync may result in intermittent corruption and stutter. Restarting the game is a temporary solution to the problem
- Some 5K displays may experience flickering on some AMD E-Series APU's
- Frame drops may be experienced with Blu-Ray playback on certain AMD Kaveri APU's when connected to 5K displays
- Total War: Attila - The game may randomly restart when first launched
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Intermittent flickering may be observed when accessing the in game menu
- Battlefield Hardline: The game may crash when launched on R9 285 series products with Crossfire and Mantle enabled
- Battlefield Hardline: The game may crash on first launch when in High Performance mode
- Freesync does not work after hotplugging the display with Windows Aero (DWM) off
- A temporary workaround is to toggle Windows Aero on/off or by restarting Windows
- Freesync is not enabled in Diablo III unless Vsync is enabled in the game
- A temporary workaround is to enable Vsync in the game