AMD has released its new Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 Drivers, which improve performance in Kingdom Come Deliverance, Fortnite, and PUBG on Radeon RX Vega 56 and RX 580 graphic cards.
The release notes for Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 mention performance increases by up to 5% on Vega 56 cards in 1440p, and a performance boost up to 7% on RX Vega 580 GPU’s in 1080p.
We’ve included the release notes for the new 18.2.2 drivers below:
Support For
Kingdom Come: Deliverance™
Up to 3% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 on the Radeon™ RX Vega 56 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1 at 2560x1440p (1440p). RS-210Up to 4% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 on the Radeon™ RX 580 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1 at 1920x1080 (1080p). RS-211Fortnite™
Up to 3% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 on the Radeon™ RX Vega 56 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 17.12.1 at 2560x1440p (1440p). RS-20Up to 6% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 on the Radeon™ RX 580 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 17.12.1 at 1920x1080 (1080p). RS-208PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds™
Up to 5% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 on the Radeon™ RX Vega 56 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 17.12.1 at 2560x1440p (1440p). RS-207Up to 7% faster performance using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 on the Radeon™ RX 580 graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 17.12.1 at 1920x1080p (1080p). RS-209Known Issues
Radeon FreeSync may intermittently incorrectly engage during Chrome video playback resulting in playback flicker.Radeon Overlay hotkey may fail to bring up the overlay or may cause a Radeon Host Application crash intermittently on a limited number of gaming titles.Radeon FreeSync may rapidly change between min and max range when enabled causing stutter in fullscreen games on multi display system configurations.Flickering may be observed on the performance metrics overlay when Enhanced Sync is enabled on some Radeon FreeSync connected `displays.A random system hang may be experienced after extended periods of use on system configurations using 12 GPU's for compute workloads.Water textures may appear to be missing in World of Final Fantasy™.The GPU Workload feature may cause a system hang when switching to Compute while AMD CrossFire is enabled. A workaround is to disable AMD CrossFire before switching the toggle to Compute workloads.The new drivers can be downloaded through the links below:
Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 Driver for Windows 10 64-bit
Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 Driver for Windows 10 32-bit
Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 Driver for Windows 7 64-bit
Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 Driver for Windows 7 32-bit