This article provides information on the latest posting of the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Driver. The AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Driver is compatible with the following AMD products.
| AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility | |
| AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series Graphics | AMD Radeon R7 300 Series Graphics |
| AMD Radeon R9 Nano Series Graphics | AMD Radeon R7 200 Series Graphics |
| AMD Radeon R9 300 Series Graphics | AMD Radeon HD 8500 - HD 8900 Series Graphics |
| AMD Radeon R9 200 Series Graphics | AMD Radeon HD 7700 - HD 7900 Series Graphics |
AMD APU Product Family Compatibility
AMD APU series codenamed "Kaveri", "Godavari" and "Carrizo" are only supported by AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition on Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit), Windows 8.1 (64-bit) and Windows 10 (64-bit).
| AMD APU Product Family Compatibility | |
| Desktop | Mobile |
| AMD A-Series APUs with Radeon R7 Graphics | AMD A-Series APUs with Radeon™ R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, or R8 Graphics |
| AMD A-Series APUs with Radeon R6 Graphics | AMD FX-8800P APUs with AMD Radeon™ R7 Graphics |
| AMD A-Series APUs with Radeon R5 Graphics | AMD E-Series APUs with Radeon™ R2 Graphics |
| AMD A-Series APUs with Radeon R4 Graphics | AMD Radeon™ HD 8500 - HD 8900 Series Graphics |
| AMD Pro A-Series APUs with Radeon R5 or R7 Graphics | AMD Pro A-Series APUs with Radeon™ R5, R6, or R7 Graphics |
AMD Mobility Radeon Family Compatibility
AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Driver is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features.
| AMD Mobility Product Family Compatibility | |
| AMD Radeon R9 M300 Series Graphics | AMD Radeon R7 M200 Series Graphics |
| AMD Radeon R7 M300 Series Graphics | AMD Radeon R5 M200 Series Graphics |
| AMD Radeon R5 M300 Series Graphics | AMD Radeon HD 8500M - HD 8900M Series Graphics |
| AMD Radeon R9 M200 Series Graphics | AMD Radeon HD 7700M - HD 7900M Series Graphics |
Support for
- Oculus Rift SDK v1.3
- AMD Radeon Pro Duo
- Updated Crossfire Profiles available for
- Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture™
- Hitman™ in DirectX11
Resolved Issues:
- Counter-Strike™: Global Offensive fails to stretch on non-native display aspect ratios. As part of the new Display Scaling per game feature, users can set “GPU Scaling” to “On” and “Scaling Mode” to “Full Panel” in the Display options tab in Radeon™ Settings as well as setting “Display Scaling” to “Full Panel” in their CSGO gaming profile under the “Gaming, Profile Options” tabs for this to take effect.
- AMD Radeon™ Fury Series may experience corruption on desktop when system is idle for an extended period of time.
- FFXIV can experience black screen or experience an application hang.
- XCOM2™ may experience minor stutter while the camera is panning around a scene.
- Radeon™ Settings check for software update may not display the latest available driver
Known Issues:
- A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"
- Need For Speed™ may experience poor scaling or flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode. As a work around users can disable the profile through the Radeon™ Settings game manager.
- The Division™ may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
- Power efficiency toggle in Radeon™ Settings is showing up for some unsupported products.
- DOTA2™ may experience game menu flickering when entering full screen mode with AMD Crossfire™ enabled.
- League of Legends® may experience some graphical corruption on characters death animation in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
- XCOM2™ users may experience an application crash when using AMD Crossfire™ mode. As a work around please disable AMD Crossfire™ for the games profile in the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab.
- Hitman™ may experience flickering when played in DirectX™ 11 mode. As a work around users are recommended to set the game to DirectX™ 12 mode in the games launcher.
Read our Hitman PC Graphics performance review here
