Crimson articles

The latest Radeon Adrenalin Hotfix adds support for A Way Out, Sea of Thieves and Vulkan 1.1, but also fixes an intermittent stutter in Forza Motorsport 7. Gameplay in Final Fantasy XV and Star Wars Battlefront 2 has also been improved.

AMD has released a new graphics hotfix driver adding support for the Oculus Dash open beta and Doom VFR. This driver also resolves a couple of issues with the Radeon RX Vega series and system hangs when switching display modes in Battlefront II.

At least for now the path is clearer with no microtransactions on Star Wars Battlefront II, so if you're up for it and are running a Radeon GPU, a new Crimson Edition driver optimizes performance for that title. Hotfix 17.11.2 also resolves corruption issues on Radeon ReLive.

New Radeon Crimson Edition graphics drivers (version 17.11.1) improve performance for the Radeon RX Vega series. Expect up to 5% faster performance in Call of Duty: WWII and support for AMD XConnect Technology in select eGPU enclosures.

If you're playing either of those titles you'll want to download the new AMD Crimson Driver 17.10.1 which introduces Radeon Chill profiles for both, in addition to a fix to a graphics issue in DiRT 4.

The latest Radeon Crimson driver hotfix (17.7.1) adds support for Radeon RX 460/470 mining cards and the RX 550/560 series. Other bug fixes include Tekken 7, FFXIV and Adobe Lightroom CC 2015.10 crashes. For complete release notes and download links go to our drivers section.

This new AMD driver offers a considerable performance boost of up to 30% when using 8xMSAA in DiRT 4 and Prey. There's also a long list of fixed issues among which are a Virtual Super Resolution failure and flickering in some Radeon RX 400 and RX 500 products and enabling HDR on high resolution displays. Go to our drivers section for complete release notes and downloads for all platforms.

A new AMD Crimson hotfix solves random hangs after short periods of gameplay in NieR: Automata as well as long map/launch load times in Forza Horizon 3. Anyone with a Radeon RX 550 series graphics card will be happy to know there is a specific fix for system hangs when entering sleep and hibernate modes, too. As always you can head to our downloads section for complete release notes and download links.

With most Windows 10 machines receiving the Creators Update this week, AMD has readied a new Radeon Hotfix driver with support for the OS' new Game Mode and high dynamic range (HDR) in anticipation of AMD FreeSync 2 monitors. Worth mentioning is also a fix that solves poor scaling in Multi GPU mode using DirectX11 in Battlefield 1.

Released today, Radeon Crimson Driver 17.3.3 offers a new Multi GPU profile for Mass Effect: Andromeda as well as solving a texture flickering issue that may be observed in the game. Like previous hotfix drivers this one is available for Windows 7 to 10. Earlier this week we posted our graphics benchmarks of Mass Effect: Andromeda, in case you missed them.