AMD promises up to 15% performance gains in Dead Island 2 with their latest Radeon GPU drivers

AMD promises significant performance gains in Dead Island 2 with their latest Radeon GPU drivers

AMD has officially released their AMD Software Adrenalin 23.4.2 drivers for Radeon graphics cards on Windows, promising gamers up to 15% performance gains in Dead Island 2, delivering optimisations for Boundary, and support for new Vulkan API extensions. 

On Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards, AMD’s new AMD Software 23.4.2 driver can deliver up to 14% performance gains at 4K, and larger up to 15% performance gains are possible on Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs. We hope to start testing Dead Island 2’s PC version later today to analyse the performance of the game’s PC version.

Full release notes of AMD’s 23.4.2 driver for Radeon GPUs on Windows 10/11.  

Highlights

Support for:

– Dead Island 2

– Up to 14% increase in performance in Dead Island 2 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.4.2 on the Radeon RX 7900 Series GPUs, versus the previous software driver version 23.4.1 RS-556

– Up to 15% increase in performance in Dead Island 2 @ 4k, using AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.4.2 on the Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs, versus the previous software driver version 23.4.1 RS-557

– Boundary

– Additional Vulkan extensions. Click here for more information.

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 VRâ„¢.
– 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 Radeonâ„¢ RX 7000 series GPUs.
– Video stuttering or performance drops may be observed during gameplay and video playback with some extended display configurations on Radeonâ„¢ RX 7000 series GPUs.
– Some virtual reality games or applications may experience lower-than-expected performance on Radeonâ„¢ RX 7000 series GPUs.
– Brief display corruption may occur when switching between video and game windows on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeonâ„¢ RX 6700 XT.
– Water corruption in Hogwarts Legacyâ„¢ may occur on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeonâ„¢ 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.

Desktop GPUs 

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