One of the benefits AMD derives from its relationships with console makers, and in particular Microsoft with its policy of equal treatment of PCs and consoles, are games optimized for its graphics cards. All for the ease of porting between the Xbox Series and the PC, so it’s no surprise that these games are more optimized for RDNA 2.
News in Adrenalin 21.11.1 pilots
The saying goes, “New Year of Call of Duty”, and that is because the Activision-Blizzard game has lived up to its annual fixture since 2005. This is why gaming graphics card makers like AMD are releasing drivers so that the latest installment in the First Person Shooters saga works in the best possible way on their graphics cards.
But pilots not only bring optimized profiles for the new CoD, but also for Forza Horizon 5, the free-to-play driving game from PlayGround Games that looks really impressive and is one of Microsoft’s two spearheads for Windows and its Xbox consoles. .
What is the improvement? With the new graphics controller, if we play with the gaming settings at 4K Extreme on a 16GB AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, we can see a performance increase of up to 23%. Let’s not forget that it depends on the CPU you use, since according to Lisa Su to acquire this performance you need a Ryzen 9 5900X and Windows 10 Pro as the operating system.
They also fixed some issues that occurred in previous drivers, but this time the list is very short, as only two errors have been fixed since the last update:
- The issue showing image corruption issues while using a monitor Samsung Odyssey G9 C49G95T at a resolution of 5120 x 1440 pixels and a refresh rate of 240 Hz have been fixed.
- The problem of visual artifacts in Call of Duty: War Zone cursor movement in in-game menus has also been fixed.
Problems yet to be resolved in AMD drivers
As usual, the release of a new driver ends up giving a list of issues to be resolved, since this is a way for manufacturers to say they intend to fix them in a future update and so are working on it.
- Apparently Radeon Anti-Lag This causes problems if you are playing Guardians of the Galaxy with an RX 5500 XT and an error called Driver Timeout ends, so AMD recommends that you disable this feature.
- Multimedia Athena Dumps folder consumes huge amount of storage.
- Visual artifacts can be seen if you play Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on an AMD RX 6000M.
- Playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds using multiple monitors at the same time in extended mode causes Radeon Software to become unresponsive when the player is in the game lobby and wants to open the Radeon Software window on any screen except the first. To temporarily fix the problem, AMD recommends using the keyboard shortcut of pressing the Alt and R keys simultaneously.
- Improved synchronization This can make the screen completely black in some games, if this happens it is recommended to turn it off temporarily.
- Radeon performance metrics continue to give incorrect values for the RAM clock speed.
As you can see a lot of these problems were already in the list of the penultimate version of the drivers, it is a pity that in Adrenaline 21.11.1 haven’t been fixed yet, but we also have to take into account how little time has passed since the last checker, less than a month.
