AMD Software Adrenalin 26.3.1 Discussion

Please use this thread to discuss the AMD Software: Adrenalin Driver version 26.3.1.

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-26-3-1.html

Highlights

  • New Game Support
    • Death Crimson Desert
    • Stranding 2
  • New Technology Support
    • FSR Upscaling 4.1 for Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards.
  • Fixed Issues
    • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while loading a saved game in Cyberpunk 2077 with Path Tracing enabled.
    • Users may experience intermittent loss of mouse and keyboard functionality both in-game and on the desktop when interacting with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition.
    • System crash may occur when repeatedly changing in-game AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition settings or when alt-tabbing on Radeon™ RX 7000 and above series graphics products.
    • Failure to enable AMD Noise Suppression in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition on Radeon™ RX 6000 and above series graphics products.

Known Issues

  • 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.
  • Texture flickering or corruption may appear while playing Battlefield™ 6 with AMD Record and Stream on some AMD graphics products.
  • AMD FSR Upscaling and AMD FSR Frame Generation may show as inactive in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition while playing Battlefield™ 6 when enabled on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Death Stranding 2 on Radeon™ RX 5000 series products.
  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing RoadCraft on Radeon™ RX 9000 series products.
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Hi!

Thanks alot as always for posting AMD Adrenaline driver updates.

Has anyone tried this driver version? Do you still have issues with Graphics Driver crashing? I am still stuck in 25.12 as 26.1 and 26.2 both gave me constant CTDs!

I was running it for about 90 minutes yesterday (FS2024) with no problems.

Hi! I have been running it since release and it runs good. Still occasional crashes, but not worse than before. Have had flights for +3 hours without issues

I unfortunately still have problems with the 26.3.1 with the error hang issues. Its been persistent since 26.1 and 25.12 was last update that gave me a good FS2024 experience. Currently I am working it around by having only the display driver without Adrenaline to see if it fixes the issue.

No problems here, about 5hrs running now.

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The issue I can spot is the following: Since I use BeyondATC lot, I am alt+tab between the simulator and the ATC tool. This especially happens where I manually need to accept the clearance while descent and alt-tab then. It then crashes with a GPU error. I tried the same with default ATC and since I have none to alt-tab since everything is internal I face no crash.

Unfortunately the stated fix by AMD in this month’s patch has still not fixed the issue.

You should fill out a bug report and submit to AMD. You can do this via the Adrenalin software.

Thanks for posting! How about VR? Until now only 25.12 gave me a 100% stable experience in VR with my Amd RX 7900 XTX. Someone tried this latest driver in VR?

Right now, I am unable to do this because of the following:

  • I clean uninstalled the update and re-installed it with drivers only (no Adrenaline). Is there any other way to do this?
  • So far everything seems stable. I am seeing if Adrenaline contributes anything to do. Someone asked me to uninstall it and continue MSFS24. Seems to work somehow.
  • So far I am alt+tabbing and it seems to be fine now without Adrenaline. But I still wont be surprised if things go astray in my next flight and GPU crashes.

It seems feedback shows 26.3.1 seems to do well with VR. If you are using BeyondATC, I would probably avoid the alt+tab GPU crash by installing the BeyondATC internal plugin tool found in their website. Then the plug-in can be used internally!

No issues on my end. The 26.2 version was a clean install via DDU, uninstalling 25.12 + chipset drivers update. The 26.3 version was downloaded from AMD, again with a separate chipset update. No DDU this time. Chipset drivers first, then 26.3.1 with a “factory reset” but keeping the user settings. So far, so good, not even cleaned the shader cache..touch wood.

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Some new update:
I can now without a doubt confirm that if you play MSFS without BeyondATC, the whole flight will be smooth. No more crashes and the game performs the best without stutters and FPS drops. Therefore, for now I am using a FSLTL injector with default ATC. Everything runs smoothly.

It seems that since January AMD Update, something with BeyondATC is going on that is causing the GPU to crash. I believe I need to change the Core Engine next time and test further.

My advise:
The problem seems to stem with the Traffic Injector from BeyondATC mostly. If you still want to use it, then switch off the traffic injector. Seems to be fine without it too.

Maybe you can try changing the BATC core engine to Vulkan or opengl, assuming it’s d3d now.

I have yet to experience this with my RX7900 XTX while running BATC w/ FSLTL models.

I did. Vulkan as default seems to be an issue (strange because AMD is so optimised for this). I have now forced D3D12 and it seems to be more stable and less stuttery on my FS2024. I will give more feedback tomorrow based on a full flight to see if it crashes with a GPU hang!

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AMD’s Vulkan engineer left the driver team a while ago, and sadly Vulkan support has become a lot buggier as a result. I can personally confirm this with applications like DXVK and RTX Remix becoming nearly unusable in the past year. If it is an option, I would avoid using Vulkan on Windows from now on.

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I can finally confirm after 2 flights changing the BeyondATC core engine from Vulkan to Direct X12 fixes the GPU hanging crashes! Its been smooth sailing now!

Thank you everyone for feedback!

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On 26.3.1 now. Consistent crashes when switching between 2d and VR! Back to 25.12.

The crashes will probably go away if you disable

Frame gen in 2d, but the latest builds are unstable for me,so running 25.10.

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