AMD Releases Software Crimson Edition 16.1.1 Driver

AMD’s Crimson driver package is a complete overhaul of the Catalyst Control Center and incorporates various improvements via a modernized user-interface. It really is a huge step forward and helps AMD to provide a good alternative to GeForce Experience. One of the criticisms about AMD revolves around the slow driver update cycle. Although, it has improved in recent months and the company has just released the latest 16.1.1 driver. This includes performance enhancements for Rise of the Tomb Raider and a Crossfire profile to properly use multi-GPU configurations. Additionally, AMD added a Crossfire profile for Fallout 4, which is well overdue. Here is a complete listing of the driver’s changelog:

Highlights

• Performance/Quality improvements and an AMD Crossfire™ profile is available for Rise of the Tomb Raider™
• An AMD Crossfire™ profile is available for Fallout 4

Resolved Issues

• [81915] Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – Building textures may be missing on some AMD Freesync™ displays with VSync enabled
• [82892] Display corruption may occur on systems with multiple display systems when they have been left idle for some time
• [82926] Mordheim:  City of the Damned – some loading screens may be very dark
• [83032] Star Wars™: Battlefront – The sky rendering may be corrupted in some situations
• [83832] Radeon Settings – AMD OverDrive™ Power setting changes on the secondary GPU are not immediately displayed.  This is seen only on dual GPU graphics cards, such as the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990 and Radeon™ R9 295×2
• [83833] Radeon Settings – AMD OverDrive™ clock gauge needles for the secondary GPU may be in wrong position when the system is idle and the secondary GPU is inactive
• [83839] Some games may experience brightness flickering with AMD FreeSync™ enabled
• [83940] AMD Radeon Additional Settings window will close if the help button is pressed on Japanese/Korean language setups
• [83948] Corruption seen in video playback for M2TS format files via Windows® 10 Movie & TV application
• [84199] Flickering textures experienced in Dota 2 when accessing the “Heroes” menu
• [84428] Battlefield Hardline – A crash may occur when changing graphics settings from “Ultra” to “High” during gameplay
• [85030] The screen may turn dark and colors may be corrupted after installing the driver on some AMD Crossfire™  setups
• [85099] Custom game profiles are reset to defaults after system is restarted
• [85142] HDMI audio lost when monitor enters sleep mode and are woken up
• [85299] Black line corruption seen all along the edges of characters and menus in Game of Thrones™

If you’re interested in the latest driver, you can download it from here.