AMD Software Adrenalin 26.1.1 Discussion

Please use this thread to discuss the AMD Software: Adrenalin Driver version 26.1.1.

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-26-1-1.html

Highlights

  • New Features
  • New Product Support
    • AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 475
    • AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 470
    • AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 465
    • AMD Ryzen™ AI 7 450
    • AMD Ryzen™ AI 7 445
    • AMD Ryzen™ AI 5 435
    • AMD Ryzen™ AI 5 430
  • New Game Support
    • Starsand Island
    • Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ - From the Ashes Edition
  • Fixed Issues
    • Some shadows may not render correctly while playing Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 on some AMD Graphics Products on Radeon™ RX 5000 series and Radeon™ RX 6000 series graphics products.
    • Texture corruption may be observed when playing Enshrouded while at the first “Elixir Well” location on Radeon™ RX 7000 series and Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
    • Application may fail to launch while playing Diablo 4 with usernames containing non-english characters on Radeon™ RX 7000 series and Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
    • Some lights may not render correctly while playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 during nighttime scenes on Radeon™ RX 7000 series and Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
    • Application crashes when using Unreal Engine 5.6 Editor with Lumen HWRT enabled on Radeon™ RX 5000, Radeon™ RX 6000, Radeon™ RX 7000 and Radeon™ RX 9000 series products.
    • Intermittent visual corruption may be observed while navigating Chromium and Electron apps on Radeon™ RX 5000 series and Radeon™ RX 6000 series graphics products.
    • Slow window resizing may be observed (related to vkAcquireNextImage extension) while developing games that use the Vulkan API on Radeon™ RX 7000 series and Radeon™ RX 9000 graphics products.
    • Player sprites may not render correctly while playing Cassette Beasts on Radeon™ RX 7000 series and Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
    • Artifact may appear when playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with TAA enabled on Radeon™ RX 5000 series and Radeon™ RX 6000 series graphics products. .

Known Issues

  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while loading a saved game in Cyberpunk 2077 with Path Tracing enabled. AMD is actively working on a resolution with the developer to be released as soon as possible.
  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Battlefield™ 6 on AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. AMD is actively working on a resolution with the developer to be released as soon as possible.
  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Roblox Player (Car Zone Racing & Drifting) when task switching between media on Radeon™ RX 7000 series products.
  • Texture flickering or corruption may appear while playing Battlefield™ 6 with AMD Record and Stream on some AMD Graphics Products. .

Additional Information

  • When downgrading to a previous version of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, it is recommended to use the AMD Cleanup Utility.

“Some lights may not render correctly while playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 during nighttime scenes on Radeon™ RX 7000 series and Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.”

Whats this about anyone know? I have 7000 series and have not had any issues with night lights?

I guess it’s about this: Weird graphical artifacts around cockpit at night on AMD RX 9000 Series GPUs

Perhaps the RX 7000 series was a typo in the release notes.

Hmm…

…I wonder when that will be addressed?

I have a 7900XT and don’t have a notification for this driver. Maybe not filtered through to the UK yet?

The notes say it has already been fixed.

Ha! I’m dumb. I thought that was under the known issues.

Oops.

That’s the way I read it the first time too. Hahahaha no problem. Have a great day!

Apparently it hasn’t been fully fixed with these drivers. Perhaps AMD cleaned up the driver side, and it will be up to Asobo to deliver the final fix.

The exterior was fixed, but inside the cockpit everything is the same. I have an RX 9060 16GB.

nice should i try my other gpu 9070 non XT. last time i checked msfs 2024 was running ok, but racing sims not. My main is 5070 ti, was it too little of an upgrade, i am wondering….

That would be my guess based on trying the driver - be that an AMD issue, or something AMD has written specifically for MSFS to enable an outcome (both are possible and common) it has eradicated some undefined behaviour that was causing the worst of the bug, and exposed that there is also an issue to tune out in the engine.

EDIT: AMD did remove the reference to 7000 series on the web, must have been a copy over mistake

After installing the update 26.1.1 via the Adrenalin “Install Manager”, I immediately caught an issue I was always hoping to avoid - the famous DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG, which scared the hell out of me as I was getting ready for a flight. Continuously repeated itself on multiple launches, popping out each time between a minute and three roughly, rendering MSFS 24 unplayable. Only once it actually “allowed” me to load a flight, and I immediately noticed a lot more stuttering when panning the view around in the cockpit. Then the same error again…

Kicked it out of “my house”, rolled back to 25.12.1 - no issues at all, a smooth 2 hrs flight, thanks God I didn’t start messing around with any other settings!

AMD RX9070XT.

Same here. Automatic driver update. The new driver was hammering on the main thread when using asynchronous spacewarp on Meta Quest 3, so that it became main thread limited (with 25 ms and lots of up- and downs, hickups and stuttering) even though capped to 36 fps and after bringing it down to lowest settings with a Ryzen 9 9950x3d, rx7900xt and 64 Gbyte RAM. After reverting to the previous driver I now get my usual ~ 10-15 ms with medium to high settings even in New York City.

Same problems here. Also rolled back to 25.12.1

This driver is a no go. Got problems with RoadCraft too.

Also in the time the driver works in MSFS2024 the performance was worse and the frametimes where really jumpy. Hope that the next version will be on par with 25.12.1

Sim completely freezes with this version. Usually a few minutes after starting a flight in VR.

Going back to 25.12.1