AMD Releases Adrenalin 24.6.1 Driver for Radeon GPUs: New Game Support, Anti-Lag 2 for CS2, Expanded HYPR-Tune Profiles, AI Improvements, and More
Date: June 27, 2024
Summary: AMD has justreleased its new Adrenalin 24.6.1 driver for Radeon GPUs, adding support for new games and several enhancements.
Key Updates:
- New Game Support: Includes The First Descendant and Once Human.
- Expanded HYPR-Tune Profiles: For games such as Overwatch 2, F1 24, Like a Dragon 8: Infinite Wealth, and Outpost: Infinity Siege. These profiles enable up to a 149% boost in FPS for titles like Baldur's Gate 3 and Resident Evil 4.
- Anti-Lag 2 for CS2: Reduces latency by up to 40% on discrete GPUs (e.g., Radeon RX 7900 GRE at 4K) and up to 27% on integrated GPUs (e.g., Radeon 780M in the Ryzen 7 8700G).
- AI Improvements: Reduced memory footprint and enhanced performance for Large Language Models (LLMs) through 4-bit quantization support.
- AI Development Support on Windows: Preview support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2), enabling the use of AMD's ROCm with PyTorch on Windows systems.
- Expanded Agility SDK Support: Includes DirectX 12 Work Graphs API and new shader models.
Fixes and Improvements:
- Resolved launch issues for Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
- Improved stability for HELLDIVERS 2 on Radeon RX 7900 series GPUs.
- Addressed intermittent system freezes on hybrid graphics notebooks with FreeSync enabled displays.
Known Issues:
- Virtual Super Resolution or Display Color Enhancements may be disabled after a driver upgrade (fix targeted for version 24.7.1).
- Visual corruption in Dying Light 2 Stay Human with Radeon Boost enabled.
- Audio and video desynchronization when recording with the AV1 codec (fix expected in Q3).
For more details and to download the driver, visit AMD's official website.
