AMD has just released its new Adrenalin 24.6.1 driver for Radeon GPUs, adding support for new games and several new features.
AMD Rolls Out A Meaty Adrenalin 24.6.1 Driver For Radeon GPUs: Packed Full of Enhancements, Game Support, Bug Fixes & More
The newest Adrenalin Software update is here and it's a big one. AMD's 24.6.1 release not only adds support for two brand new games, The First Descendant (read our impressions here) and Once Human (our Q&A with the studio behind the new title), but it comes with tons of enhancements such as support for new HYPR-TUNE profiles for games like Overwatch 2, F1 24, Like a Dragon 8: Infinite Wealth and Outpost: Infinity Siege. These new profiles enable HYPR-RX for up to 149% boost in FPS in titles such as Baldur's Gate 3, F1 23, Resident Evil 4, and more.
Besides these, it looks like AMD's upgraded Anti-Lag 2 support is back and is out of its technical preview. The feature is now available for full use within Counter-Strike 2, enabling a 40% reduction in latency using discrete GPUs such as the Radeon RX 7900 GRE at 4K resolution or up to 27% lower latencies with integrated GPUs such as the Radeon 780M featured on the Ryzen 7 8700G APUs.
AMD also provides updates on the AI side of things which were recently disclosed as part of its ROCm 6.1.3 launch, further harnessing the power of consumer-centric RDNA 3 GPUs and also supporting the WSL 2 subsystem. Lastly, there are a range of fixes and improvements within existing games and applications that make this driver a must-have for Radeon gamers!
New Game Support
- The First Descendant
- Once Human
Expanded HYPR-Tune Support
HYPR-TUNE Profiles
- Like a Dragon 8: Infinite Wealth
- Overwatch 2
- The First Descendent
- F1 24
- Outpost: Infinity Siege
- Enable HYPR-RX and get an instant boost in performance of up to 149% on the Radeon RX 7800XT GPU across games like Baldur's Gate 3, F1 23, Resident Evil 4, and more!
Expanded Operating System Support
- Support for Windows 11, version 24H2.
AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 Support for Counter-Strike 2
Takes responsive gaming to the next level by introducing an in-game option to optimally pace frames, further reducing input lag on AMD RDNA architecture-based discrete and integrated graphics products.
- Get a decrease in latency in Counter-Strike 2 of up to 40% with AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 at 4K on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card.
- Get a decrease in latency in Counter-Strike 2 of up to 27% with AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 at 1080p on the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G processor with AMD Radeon™ 780M graphics.
AI on Radeon
- Performance improvements and memory footprint reduction for Large Language Models (LLMs) thanks to 4-bit quantization acceleration support for all RDNA series discrete graphics products and RDNA 3 series integrated graphics products running ONNXRuntime with DirectML.
AI Development on Radeon
- Technology Preview for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) enabling PyTorch users with supported hardware to develop with AMD ROCm software on a Windows system, eliminating the need for dual boot set ups.
Expanded Agility SDK Support
Introducing support for Agility SDK 1.613 and Microsoft's Agility SDK 1.614.0 functionality:
- Microsoft DirectX 12 Work Graphs 1.0 API
- GPU Upload Heaps
- Shader Model 6.8 – Including Wave Size Range and Expanded Comparison Sampling
- R9B9G9E5 Support for Render Targets and UAV
Fixed Issues and Improvements
- Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas may fail to launch.
- Improvement to intermittent driver timeout or application crash experienced while playing HELLDIVERS 2 on AMD Radeon RX 7900 series GPUs.
- AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Performance Metrics may intermittently fail to update while playing HELLDIVERS 2.
- Intermittent system freeze or low FPS on hybrid graphics notebooks pairing certain FreeSync enabled displays.
What to Know
AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2
- Anti-Lag 2 will be enabled by default in the Counter-Strike 2 “ADVANCED VIDEO” settings menu.
- Anti-Lag 2 unlocks improved responsiveness by adding in-game pacing of the CPU with the GPU, particularly in GPU-intensive scenarios.
- For more information on how to use Anti-Lag 2 and measure latency click HERE.
- Join the conversation by sharing how responsiveness is improved with Anti-Lag 2 on your system.
Known Issues
- Virtual Super Resolution or Display Color Enhancements may be set to disabled after driver upgrade. [Resolution targeted for 24.7.1]
- Corruption may be observed while playing Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition with Radeon Boost enabled. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to disable Radeon Boost as a temporary workaround.
- Intermittent in-game corruption may be observed while playing Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Record & Streaming and HDR enabled.
- Intermittent black corruption may be observed on scaled 3d models while using Origin or OriginPro application. [Resolution targeted for 24.7.1]
- Audio and video may intermittently become out of sync while recording using the AV1 codec in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition. [Resolution targeted for Q3]
