AMD Releases Adrenalin 23.4.2 Bringing Dead Island 2 Support

AMD Has released their latest Adrenalin Edition 23.4.2 drivers for Radeon GPUs bringing support for the newly released Dead Island 2 as well as various new fixes.

Adrenalin 23.4.2 Release Notes

This new update has brought support for Dead Island 2 which was released today and has been reasonably well received. AMD claims that using this latest 23.4.2 driver brings up to 14-15% of a performance uplift at 4K with RX 7900 GPUs and RX 6000 GPUs when compared with the previous driver version.

This update has also brought support for Boundary which is a Boundary is a multiplayer tactical space-based shooter game which genuinely looks quite fun with its low-gravity mechanics and boasts mostly positive reviews on Steam. Further support for Vulkan Extensions has been added as well with this Adrenalin version.

Fixed Issues

• Blocky water corruption may occur in Red Dead Redemption 2™ when using the Vulkan® API.
• Missing text or a white disk may appear in Google Earth VR™.
• Application crashes may be intermittently observed after enabling the render preview window in Unreal Engine 5™.
• A blank or black screen may occur after a driver upgrade using certain display configurations.

Known Issues

• High idle power has situationally been observed when using select high-resolution and high refresh rate displays on Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs.
• Video stuttering or performance drops may be observed during gameplay and video playback with some extended display configurations on Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs.
• Some virtual reality games or applications may experience lower-than-expected performance on Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs.
• Brief display corruption may occur when switching between video and game windows on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
• Water corruption in Hogwarts Legacy™ may occur on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 580.

Important Notes 

• Factory Reset has been temporarily disabled as a precautionary measure while we address isolated installation issues that have been reported during PC upgrades. Users may use AMD Cleanup Utility as a temporary option.

You can download Adrenalin Edition 23.4.2 from the AMD website here.