AMD Software Adrenalin 25.3.1 Discussion

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Please use this thread to discuss the AMD Software: Adrenalin Driver version 25.3.1.

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-25-3-1.html

New Product Support

  • AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT
  • AMD Radeon™ RX 9070
  • AMD Radeon™ RX 7650 GRE
  • AMD Ryzen™ Al Max+ 395
  • AMD Ryzen™ AI 5 PRO 340 (AMD Radeon™ 840M)
  • AMD Ryzen™ AI 7 PRO 350 (AMD Radeon™ 860M)
  • AMD Ryzen™ AI 5 340 (AMD Radeon™ 840M)
  • AMD Ryzen™ Al 7 350 (AMD Radeon™ 860M)
  • AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX with AMD Radeon™ Graphics
  • AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX with AMD Radeon™ Graphics
  • AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with AMD Radeon™ Graphics
  • AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with AMD Radeon™ Graphics

New Features

  • AMD Fidelity™ FX Super Resolution 4 (AMD FSR 4)
    • Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
    • AMD FSR 4 features a new upgrade toggle in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ that automatically upgrades supported games that have built-in AMD FSR 3.1 support to use the new ML-based AMD FSR 4 upscaling algorithm.
    • AMD FSR 4 will be available for over 30 games on Radeon™ RX 9070 Series Graphics Cards. For more information, click HERE.
  • AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1
    • Improved frame generation image quality with reduced ghosting and better temporal tracking.
    • Support for AMD Radeon™ RX 6000, 7000, 9070 series graphics cards and AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series processors
  • AI Enhanced Features in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™
    • Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
    • AMD Chat
      • AMD Chat is a GPU-accelerated, local offline chatbot with text and image generation capabilities.
      • AMD Chat can answer common questions about a user’s AMD hardware and enable key features in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™.
    • AMD Image Inspector
      • AMD Image Inspector leverages AI to help AMD accelerate game quality improvements by capturing text and image diagnostic data.
    • AMD Install Manager
      • AMD Install Manager is a new application that easily manages your AMD specific software installations.
      • AMD Install Manager supports the installation of our new AMD Chat and the latest AMD Graphics and Chipset drivers.
      • Users now have an option to “Automatically keep AMD Software up to date”, allowing the AMD Install Manager to update their installed drivers and software on-the-fly.
    • AMD Radeon™ Image Sharpening 2
      • Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
      • Now updated to provide stronger, more responsive sharpening in more use cases.
      • AMD Radeon™ Image Sharpening 2 can now apply sharpening to games, videos or across the entire desktop.

Other Highlights

  • New Game Support
    • FragPunk
    • Split Fiction
  • AMD ROCm™ on WSL for AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series
    • Official support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) enables users with supported hardware to run workloads with AMD ROCm™ software on a Windows system, eliminating the need for dual boot set ups.
    • The following has been added to WSL 2:
      • Official support for Llama3 8B (via vLLM) and Stable Diffusion 3 models.
      • Support for Hugging Face transformers.
      • Support for Ubuntu 24.04.
    • Find more information on ROCm on Radeon compatibility here and configuration of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) here.
  • AI Performance Improvements on AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series
    • Performance improvements to the following use cases:
      • Up to 70% improvement on Adobe Lightroom AI enhance detail.
      • Up to 13% improvement on Adobe Lightroom Denoise.
      • Up to 40% improvement with Topaz Photo AI subtest.
      • Up to 10% improvement on DaVinci resolve AI cases.
  • Developer Updates
    • New AMD machine-readable GPU Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) specifications updated to support AMD RDNA™ 4 and RDNA™ 3.5 architecture graphics cards. Learn more.
    • New open-source AMD Advanced Interactive Streaming (AIS) SDK release, designed from the ground up to transform streaming from passive viewing into an immersive experience and AMD Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK updates.
    • AMD Radeon™ Developer Tool Suite (RDTS) update with support for AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics cards coming soon. The RDTS includes the recently released Driver Experiments tool that enables low-level control over the behavior of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ for developers. Stay tuned to GPUOpen news for the latest news for developers.
  • Expanded HYPR-RX Support
    • HYPR-Tune support allows HYPR-RX to enable in-game technologies like AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution and AMD Radeon ™ Anti-Lag 2.
    • Support has been added to automatically configure AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution with frame generation in:
      • Farming Simulator 25
      • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
      • Silent Hill 2
  • Expanded Vulkan Extension Support
  • Fixed Issues and Improvements
    • HEVC encoding may not work as expected while using OBS Studio with Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting.
    • Intermittent driver timeout or crash may be observed while playing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370.)
    • Lower than expected performance may be observed in Delta Force on Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products.
    • Intermittent stutter may be observed while playing Marvel Rivals when AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 frame generation is enabled.

Known Issues

  • Intermittent crash of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ may be observed while playing Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 or Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart with AMD Image Inspector enabled. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to disable AMD Image Inspector as a temporary workaround.
  • Lower than expected performance may be observed when using YouTube on the Microsoft Edge web browser immediately after a driver install. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to restart Microsoft Edge and relaunch YouTube as a temporary workaround.
  • 3rd party tools that rely on our ADL SDK for detecting ROPs count will incorrectly report 64 ROPs, and we are looking to address this in a driver update post launch.
  • Incorrect gamma is exhibited while playing Counter-Strike 2 and using MSAA x8 on Radeon™ RX 9070 series graphics products.
  • AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ may not accurately report AMD FSR 4 enablement for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
  • Intermittent application crash may be observed in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle when settings are set to “Very Ultra” quality and Path Tracing is enabled. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to use the default Ray Tracing settings as a temporary workaround.
  • After using the AMD Cleanup Utility for Windows®, the AMD Bug Report Tool may appear intermittently during a new driver install on AMD Ryzen™ 7000 and above series processors paired with AMD Graphics Products.
  • Limitations for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) support can be found here.
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Really great driver i got +10fps and my sim is buttery smooth

7900XTX

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AFMF 2.1 looks like a step forwards in smoothness and image stability for me

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Yep also now testing FMF2.1 and I’m positively surprised so far.
Did not use it until now because I found there was far too much artifacts/noise. But this new version seems to be a noticeable improvement :slight_smile:

EDIT:
after more testing (together with the SU1 FS2024 update today) I am really impressed by FMF2.1
It even handles small instruments very well. Another very hard situation was the digital displays (virtual buttons) of the F18, they are also good now in my opinion.
Will definitely leave it active for now.

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Does anyone who uses multiple addons like GSX, axis and ohs, mobiflight etc have any tips how to get AFMF to consistently recognise that msfs is running? Most of the time AFMF is picking up one of the child processes started by msfs and so it doesn’t think a DX11/12 app is running. GSX seems to fool it even when started entirely separately from the sim

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You should be able to set up a gaming profile in the Adrenalin driver for MSFS 2024 and set AFMF on in the profile (and any other parameters). Adrenalin will recognize when the sim is stared and adjust all parameters to what you have in the profile - you don’t need to do anything.

I use these profiles for all of my games.

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This driver fixes HEVC-10bit when using Virtual Desktop, finally…

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I do have a manual profile for msfs in the adrenaline software and was previously using the auto generated one but both suffer the same issue. Sometimes it works ok even with the child processes spawned by the msfs exe but other times it fails to recognise at DX11/12 app and doesn’t work. Typically in the ALT-R adrenaline overlay I will see the msfs logo as the active game but it will show the path to the Fenix a320 exe, or Axis and Ohs or couatl64 (GSX Pro)

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I would recommend an uninstall via DDU and a reinstall of the Adrenalin driver.

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That’s how I originally installed 25.3.1

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Don’t think I’ve seen this before - you can open a support ticket via the Adrenalin software (click on the bug in the top right).

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This doesn’t work as once MSFS starts a child process again it’ll switch the .exe despite you having set it to be specifically MSFS’s. It’s pretty annoying and makes AFMF a pain to use in practice

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Are you clicking on another app and taking focus away from the sim? AFMF will stop if the game doesn’t have focus. If you click on another app and then click back on the sim AFMF should restart automatically.

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I actually found that tabbing away and back to MSFS is what triggers the issue. Made it all the way to the main menu with AFMF active, tabbed out to do flight planning and tabbed back in, and got “Unsupported Graphics API” in Adrenalin.

Luckily there is a backup solution for framegen: Optiscaler, which takes the inputs the game sends to DLSS and converts them into FSR3.1/4 including frame generation. Having AFMF on top of it is nice, but again is just not consistent in if it wants to apply correctly or not.

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I made a little bit of a breakthrough (but not really): it seems like AFMF will usually apply correctly, but only on the first time the game is launched per reboot. On all following starts of the game, AFMF will not apply correctly.

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FSR3.1 is coming in su2

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Has this been verified by MS/Asobo somewhere?

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The most recent Developer Q&A Livestream (Friday, March 14th) this was announced/confirmed by Martial Bossard, Asobo Executive Producer.

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:upside_down_face: :star_struck: :zany_face: :exploding_head: :weary_cat: :+1: :beer_mug: :tada:

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I am using a RX 7900XT and updated yesterday to the 25.3.1 driver … which seems to be that latest which the AMD software offered to me (not 25.3.2).

I did get “reliable” crashes in FS2024 after a few minutes of “play” … where I was not even flying but browsing the marketplace and tuning my settings.

This happened 3 times … basically “in a row” … and so I decided to download and install the old 24.12 driver … which works without any crashes on my system.