Article Number: RN-RAD-WIN-24-2-1

New Feature Highlights

Fixed Issues

  • Improvement to intermittent driver timeout or application crash experienced while playing HELLDIVERS™ 2 on AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs. AMD is continuing to investigate additional reports of driver timeouts and application crashes while playing HELLDIVERS™ 2.
  • Improvements to excessive stutter while playing various games, including Battlefield™ 2042, Destiny 2, Overwatch 2, Monster Hunter: World, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS and STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II.
  • Deathloop may experience extended loading times on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6900 XT.  
  • Dead Space may experience an application crash after enabling RTAO on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6800. 
  • Intermittent application crash when first launching Enshrouded or changing Anti-Aliasing settings on Radeon™ 7000 series graphics products. 
  • Shadows may appear bright, or reflections may be missing while playing Enshrouded on Radeon™ 7000 series graphics products. 
  • HDR settings may intermittently fail to take effect while playing certain games such as Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth.  
  • Intermittent driver timeout or application crash may be considered while playing Counterstrike 2 with FSR enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX. 
  • Graphics API metric may be incorrectly reported as DirectX® 12 for some Vulkan® games.
  • After a system reboot, Parsec host application may experience a crash on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX.  
  • During Microsoft Teams meetings, the camera may intermittently display looped footage on some AMD Products, such as the AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840U Processor.
  • Oculus Rift S may display with a green tint on AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs.
  • AFMF may be inaccurately displayed on select hybrid graphics configurations, particularly in systems where one of the devices lacks support for AFMF. AFMF must be supported on the displaying GPU to be activated.
  • Mouse lag or stutter may be observed when selecting the discrete GPU as the primary display adapter on certain mobile systems, such as an AMD Ryzen™ 9 6900HS Mobile Processor paired with an AMD Radeon™ RX 6800S Mobile GPU.

Known Issues

  • Intermittent driver timeout or application crash may be experienced while playing HELLDIVERS™ 2 with 100% GPU utilization on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX.
  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Starcraft II™ on Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs. 
  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Overwatch® 2 with Radeon™ Boost enabled on Radeon™ RX 6000 and above series GPUs. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to disable Radeon™ Boost as a temporary workaround.
  • Purple corruption may be observed while playing Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition with Radeon™ Boost and Raytracing enabled. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to disable Radeon™ Boost as a temporary workaround.
  • Some textures for characters may appear invisible while playing Cossacks 3.
  • World of Warcraft may experience extended initial loading times with DirectX 12 API on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6800.
  • Shader caching may fail for Windows usernames containing accented characters. [Resolution targeted for 24.3.1] 
  • FPS performance metric may incorrectly report values while a game is minimized. [Resolution targeted for 24.3.1] 
  • AMD SmartAccess Video may be incorrectly reported as “Available” on some systems with the Parsec Virtual Display Driver installed.
  • Performance drop may be observed while using some DirectML workloads in Topaz AI.
  • Audio and video may intermittently become out of sync while recording using the AV1 codec in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition. [Resolution targeted for Q3]
  • Excessive micro stutter may be intermittently experienced after enabling AMD Fluid Motion Frames for select games. [Resolution targeted for 24.3.1]

Important Notes

  • For users who previously installed an AMD Software preview driver, running AMD Cleanup Utility is recommended before installing this driver.
  • Some per-game graphics profiles may have incorrectly been set to HYPR-RX Eco after a driver upgrade. Users experiencing this issue may use the Factory Reset option to return all profiles to default.

Package Contents

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 Driver Version 23.40.19.01 for Windows® 10 and Windows® 11 (Windows Driver Store Version 31.0.24019.1006). 

The AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 installation package can be downloaded from the following link:

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Systems pairing RDNA series graphics products with Polaris or Vega series graphics products:

Installing AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition

For detailed instructions on how to correctly uninstall or install AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, please refer to the following support resources:

NOTE: This driver is not intended for use on AMD Radeon products running in Apple Boot Camp platforms. Users of these platforms should contact their system manufacturer for driver support. When installing AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 for the Windows® operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator, or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1. 

Radeon Product Compatibility

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 is compatible with the following AMD Radeon products.

Radeon™ RX 7900/7800/7700/7600 Series Graphics
Radeon™ RX 6900/6800/6700/6600/6500/6400 Series Graphics
Radeon™ RX 5700/5600/5500/5300 Series Graphics
 

Mobility Radeon™ Product Compatibility

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features. 

AMD Radeon™ RX 7900M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 6800M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 6700M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 6600M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 6500M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 6300M Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 5700M/5600M/5500M/5300M Series Graphics

​​​​AMD Processors with Radeon Graphics Product Compatibility

Important Note for Laptop and All-In-One (AIO) PCs 

AMD recommends OEM-provided drivers which are customized and validated for their system-specific features and optimizations.

If you experience issues using the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition driver package downloaded from AMD.com, please install the OEM-provided drivers for full support and compatibility.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition does not include support for handheld gaming devices.  Users should check with the OEM for device specific drivers.

DESKTOP

MOBILE
AMD Ryzen™ Processors with Radeon™ Graphics AMD Ryzen™ Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
AMD Ryzen™ PRO Processors AMD Ryzen™ PRO Processors
AMD Athlon™ Processors with Radeon™ Graphics AMD Athlon™ Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
AMD Athlon™ PRO Processors AMD Athlon™ PRO Processors

WHQL Results

  Status
WHQL Test Suite Results Passed
WHQL Microsoft Certification Passed

Compatible Operating Systems

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1is designed to support the following Microsoft® Windows® platforms. Operating System support may vary depending on your specific AMD Radeon product.

  • Windows 11 version 21H2 and later
  • Windows 10 64-bit version 1809 and later

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For users that game remotely with AMD Link, one important announcement is that AMD is ending support for the AMD Link software. We originally launched AMD Link at a time when there were few alternative remote gaming solutions for Radeon graphics users. Today, there are many options available for users to stream their PC content to other devices. AMD’s role is to enable and support developers, not compete with them. As such, we are ending support for AMD Link and focusing our resources on other core capabilities and features that benefit users. We will also continue to support developers with our SDKs such as the AMD Advanced Media Framework that allow them to enable streaming functionality within their solutions.

For users who previously installed an AMD Software preview driver, running AMD Cleanup Utility is recommended before installing this driver.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 will now automatically clear previously installed drivers located in the C:\AMD folder to save space.

RS-630: Testing conducted by AMD as of December 18th, 2023, on a test system configured with a Ryzen 5 7600X CPU, 32GB DDR5, Radeon RX 7600XT GPU, ASUS ROG Strix B650 motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro, with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.1.1 and AFMF ON/OFF and upscaled with FSR 2 at Quality Mode, on various titles including Starfield, The Last of Us – Part 1, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Baldur’s Gate 3, Spiderman Miles Morales, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Hogwarts Legacy, Forza Horizon 5, Cyberpunk 2077, and Resident Evil 4.  Game tested at 1080p resolution. Performance may vary. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-631: Testing conducted by AMD as of December 18th, 2023, on a test system configured with a Ryzen 5 7600X CPU, 32GB DDR5, Radeon RX 7600XT GPU, ASUS ROG Strix B650 motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro, with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.1.1 and AFMF ON/OFF, on various titles including Starfield, The Last of Us – Part 1, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Baldur’s Gate 3, Spiderman Miles Morales, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Hogwarts Legacy, Forza Horizon 5, Cyberpunk 2077, and Resident Evil 4.  Game tested at 1440p resolution. Performance may vary. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.