Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 Highlights
Support For
- Microsoft® Windows® 11 Operating System
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- Far Cry® 6
- Up to 10% increase in performance in Far Cry® 6 @ 1080p Ultra Settings with raytracing enabled, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 on the 12 GB Radeon™ RX 6700 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.9.2.RS-412
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- Up to 12% increase in performance in Far Cry® 6 @ 4K Medium Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.9.2.RS-413
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- Up to 13% increase in performance in Far Cry® 6 @ 1440p Medium Settings with raytracing enabled, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 on the 8 GB Radeon™ RX 6600 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.9.2.RS-414
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- Battlefield™ 2042 (Open Beta)
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- Naraka: Bladepoint™
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- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™
- DirectX® 12
- Up to 11% increase in performance in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™ @ 4K Ultra Settings with DX12, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.9.2.RS-415
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Fixed Issues
- Playing Horizon Zero Dawn™ for an extended period may lead to driver timeouts or game crash on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
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- Driver timeouts may be experienced while playing a game & streaming a video simultaneously on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 500 Series Graphics.
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- Some users may experience high idle memory clock speed values when two or more monitors are connected to their system.
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- Driver timeouts may be experienced while playing The Medium™ on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
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- On full GPU load, Radeon™ Software may incorrectly display higher than actual GPU power consumption values.
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- While playing Wreckfest™ or Arma™ 3, image corruption may be experienced when viewing foliage.
Known Issues
- Open Broadcaster Software™ may continue to run in the background after a user ends a recording session and closes the application.
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- AMD Radeon™ Software may crash or become unresponsive while playing some DirectX® 11 games such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™ with multiple displays connected in extended mode.
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- Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
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- Radeon performance metrics and logging features may intermittently report extremely high and incorrect memory clock values.
AMD Link for Windows Known Issues
- Intermittent grey frame corruption might be observed when streaming with HEVC on certain configurations via an Internet connection. A workaround is to use the AVC encoding setting instead.
Footnote
- RS-412 – Testing conducted by AMD as of September 30, 2021, on a test system comprised of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 16GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU, and Windows 10 Pro, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 and 21.9.2 on Far Cry 6. Game tested with ultra preset at 1080p, raytracing enabled. Performance may vary.
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- RS-413 - Testing conducted by AMD as of September 30, 2021, on a test system comprised of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 16GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU, and Windows 10 Pro, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 and 21.9.2 on Far Cry 6. Game tested with medium preset at 4K. Performance may vary.
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- RS-414 – Testing conducted by AMD as of September 30, 2021, on a test system comprised of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 16GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU, and Windows 10 Pro, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 and 21.9.2 on Far Cry 6. Game tested with medium preset at 1440p, raytracing enabled. Performance may vary.
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- RS-415 – Testing conducted by AMD as of September 29, 2021, on a test system comprised of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 16GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU, and Windows 10 Pro, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 and 21.9.2 on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Game tested with ultra preset at 4K, DX12. Performance may vary.
Package Contents
The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 installation package contains the following:
- Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 Driver Version 21.30.25.01 for Windows® 10 and Windows® 11 (Windows Driver Store Version 30.0.13025.1000).
Important Notes
- The Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 driver can also be installed on Radeon™ PRO Graphics products as an early version for testing.
The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 installation package can be downloaded from the following links:
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Installing Radeon Software Adrenalin
For detailed instructions on how to correctly uninstall or install Radeon Software Adrenalin, please refer to the following support resources:
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 Adrenalin 21.10.1 for the Windows® operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator, or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1.
Radeon Product Compatibility
Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 is compatible with the following AMD Radeon products.
Radeon™ RX 6900/6800/6700/6600 Series Graphics |
Radeon™ RX 5700/5600/5500/5300 Series Graphics |
Radeon™ VII |
Radeon™ RX Vega Series Graphics |
AMD Radeon™ Pro Duo |
Radeon™ RX 500 / Radeon 500X Series Graphics |
Radeon™ RX 400 Series Graphics |
Mobility Radeon™ Product Compatibility
Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features.
AMD Radeon™ RX 6800M Series Graphics |
AMD Radeon™ RX 6700M Series Graphics |
AMD Radeon™ RX 6600M Series Graphics |
AMD Radeon™ RX 5700M/5600M/5500M/5300M Series Graphics |
AMD Radeon™ 600 Series Graphics |
AMD Processors with Radeon Graphics Product Compatibility
Important Note for Laptop and All-In-One (AIO) PCs
AMD recommends OEM-provided drivers which are customized and validated for their system-specific features and optimizations.
If you experience issues using the Radeon™ Software Adrenalin driver package downloaded from AMD.com, please install the OEM-provided drivers for full support and compatibility.
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AMD Ryzen™ Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics | AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics |
AMD Ryzen™ PRO Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics | AMD Ryzen™ PRO Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics |
AMD Athlon™ Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics | AMD Athlon™ Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics |
AMD Athlon™ PRO Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics | AMD Athlon™ PRO Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics |
Compatible Operating Systems
Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 is designed to support the following Microsoft® Windows® platforms. Operating System support may vary depending on your specific AMD Radeon product.
- Windows® 10 and Windows® 11 64-bit version