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Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 Highlights

Support For

• For Honor™
  • Up to 4% performance improvement measured on Radeon RX 480 series products when compared to Radeon Software Crimson ReLive edition 17.1.2⁽¹⁾
  • Sniper Elite™ 4
  • Up to XX% performance improvement measured on Radeon RX 480 series products when compared to Radeon Software Crimson ReLive edition 17.1.2.⁽²⁾

Multi GPU profile added for DirectX® 11:

• For Honor™
• Sniper Elite™ 4

Fixed Issues

• For Honor™ may experience an application crash when switching to fullscreen or menus in gameplay on Multi GPU configurations
• On some Radeon GCN products DXVA H.264 encoded video may experience corruption when fast forwarding or seeking through content
• AMD FreeSync™ technology mode may fail to enable itself on some fullscreen applications.
• Counter-Strike™: Global Offensive has incorrect default slider values with Radeon Chill enabled. Users can modify these values to suit the experience they want.
• Graphics processor information may be missing from system information overlay on Radeon ReLive captured videos.
• DayZ may experience an application crash when Radeon ReLive Instant Replay/Recording is active or the feature may not work as expected.
• Memory clocks may become locked at low states on Radeon R9 380 series products.
• Radeon ReLive recording in fullscreen with Windows Media Player or Power DVD may experience flickering.
• AMD Radeon HD 7900 series products may experience shadow corruption when shadows are disabled in Civilization™ VI.
• GRID™ Autosport may experience an application hang when enabling the advanced lighting graphics option

Known Issues

• For Honor™ may experience game menu flickering issues or fail to render after performing a task switch in 4x Multi GPU system configurations.
• Adjusting Radeon WattMan settings on some Radeon R9 380 series products may cause display flickering or application hangs.
• AMD FreeSync™ technology mode may not be compatible or function with Sniper Elite™ 4.
• Enabling supersampling in Sniper Elite™ 4 may cause image cropping.
• Radeon Settings may crash on switching Windows® user after toggling AMD CrossFire™ technology mode.
• A small amount of apps may still experience issues with Borderless Fullscreen mode and AMD FreeSync™ technology if other applications or game launchers are running on the primary screen in the background.
• Counter-Strike™: Global Offensive and World of Warcraft™ may experience flickering or performance issues the first time the game is launched on a system boot with AMD FreeSync™ technology enabled. Workarounds include exiting and restarting the application or task switching (alt+tab) in and out of the game to fix the issue.

Known Issues for Radeon ReLive

• The XBOX™ DVR application may cause conflicts with Radeon ReLive, users are suggested to disable XBOX™ DVR if Radeon ReLive is experiencing issues.
• Radeon ReLive may fail to install on AMD APU Family products or experience a system hang or failure to record when using the recording feature on AMD APU Family products.
• Radeon ReLive may stop working after hot unplugging of a secondary display.
• Radeon ReLive may experience minor graphical corruption for the first few recorded frames when launching UWP applications.
• Radeon ReLive will not allow recording settings to change with Instant Replay enabled. A workaround is to disable Instant Replay and change settings then enable Instant Replay.
• Vulkan™ applications may experience a game hang when using Radeon ReLive to record.
• Radeon ReLive will not notify an end user of low disk space during recording.
• System information overlay is only generated on first run and will not be repopulated when system configuration is changed.
• Radeon ReLive may not function when Hyper-V is enabled on Windows®.

Disclaimer

1. Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of February 10, 2017 on the Radeon™ RX 480 graphics card, on a test system comprising Intel i7 5960X CPU, 16GB DDR4-2666 Mhz system memory, Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition driver 17.1.2 and Radeon Software Crimson Edition 17.2.1and Windows 10 x64 using the game For Honor™. At 1920×1080, Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 scored on average 77.9 frames per second and Radeon Software Crimson Edition 17.1.2 scored on average 75.2 frames per second using the Radeon RX 480 graphics card, which is 4% faster performance. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers.
2. Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of February 10, 2017 on the Radeon™ RX 480 graphics card, on a test system comprising Intel i7 5960X CPU, 16GB DDR4-2666 Mhz system memory, Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition driver 17.1.2 and Radeon Software Crimson Edition 17.2.1and Windows 10 x64 using the game Sniper Elite 4™. At 2560×1440, Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 scored on average 58.4 frames per second and Radeon Software Crimson Edition 17.1.2 scored on average 55.7 frames per second using the Radeon RX 480 graphics card, which is 5% faster performance. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers.

Package Contents

The Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 installation package contains the following:

• Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 Driver Version 16.60.2011 (Windows Driver Store Version 21.19.519.0)

The Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 installation package can be downloaded from the following links

• AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 17.2.1 Driver for Windows® 10 64-bit​
• AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 17.2.1 Driver for Windows® 10 32-bit​
• AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 17.2.1 Driver for Windows® 8.1 64-bit​
• AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 17.2.1 Driver for Windows® 7 64-bit​
• AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 17.2.1 Driver for Windows® 7 32-bit​

Installing Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1
For detailed instructions on how to correctly uninstall or install Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition, please refer to the following support resources:

• How-To Uninstall Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition on a Windows® Based System
• How-To Install Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition on a Windows® Based System

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 Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 for the Windows® operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator, or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1.

Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 requires Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to be installed.

Radeon Product Compatibility
Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 is compatible with the following AMD Radeon products.

Note that AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury, Radeon™ Pro Duo, and Radeon™ RX 400 Series graphics are only supported by Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition on Windows 7/8.1/10 64-bit.

Mobility Radeon™ Family Compatibility
Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features.

AMD APU Product Family Compatibility

AMD APU products are only supported by AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLiveEdition on Windows® 7 (32 & 64-bit) and Windows® 10 (32 & 64-bit).

Compatible Operating Systems
Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1 is designed to support the following Microsoft® Windows® platforms. Operating System support may vary depending on your specific AMD Radeon product.

• Windows® 10 (32 & 64-bit version)
• Windows 8.1 (64-bit version)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit version with SP1 or higher)