AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.6.1

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AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.6.1 Release Notes

Highlights

• New Game Support
  
  • The First Descendant
  • Once Human
• Expanded HYPR-Tune Support
  
  • HYPR-TUNE Profiles
    
    • Like a Dragon 8: Infinite Wealth
    • Overwatch® 2
    • The First Descendent
    • F1® 24
    • Outpost: Infinity Siege
  • Click HERE for more information regarding HYPR-RX.
    
    • Enable HYPR-RX and get an instant boost in performance of up to 149% on the Radeon™ RX 7800XT GPU across games like Baldur's Gate 3, F1 23, Resident Evil 4 and more! ^RS-642
    • Join the conversation by sharing how well HYPR-RX with AFMF is working on your system. This information across thousands of games helps us make further improvements.
• Expanded Operating System Support
  
  • Support for Windows 11, version 24H2.
• AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2 Support for Counter-Strike 2
  
  • Takes responsive gaming to the next level by introducing an in-game option to optimally pace frames, further reducing input lag on AMD RDNA™ architecture-based discrete and integrated graphics products.
    
    • Get a decrease in latency in Counter-Strike 2 of up to 40% with AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2 at 4K on the AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 GRE graphics card. ^RS-647
    • Get a decrease in latency in Counter-Strike 2 of up to 27% with AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2 at 1080p on the AMD Ryzen™ 7 8700G processor with AMD Radeon™ 780M graphics. ^RS-651
  • Learn more about AMD Anti-Lag 2 HERE.
      
• AI on Radeon
  
  • Performance improvements and memory footprint reduction for Large Language Models (LLMs) thanks to 4-bit quantization acceleration support for all RDNA™ series discrete graphics products and RDNA™ 3 series integrated graphics products running ONNXRuntime with DirectML.
    
    • Click HERE for more information
• AI Development on Radeon
  
  • Technology Preview for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) enabling PyTorch users with supported hardware to develop with AMD ROCm™ software on a Windows system, eliminating the need for dual boot set ups. 
    
    • See Use ROCm on Radeon GPUs for more information.
        
• Expanded Agility SDK Support
  Introducing support for Agility SDK 1.613 and Microsoft's Agility SDK 1.614.0 functionality:
  
  • Microsoft DirectX 12 Work Graphs 1.0 API
    
    • D3D12 Work Graphs support for AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series graphics cards, learn more HERE
  • GPU Upload Heaps
    
    • See the DirectX Blog HERE, or our GPUOpen Blog post on GPU Upload Heaps HERE.
  • Shader Model 6.8 – Including Wave Size Range and Expanded Comparison Sampling
    
    • See Shader Model 6.8 specification for more information.
  • R9B9G9E5 Support for Render Targets and UAV
    
    • See Microsoft's Agility SDK 1.614.0 for more information.
        
• Fixed Issues and Improvements
  
  • Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas may fail to launch. 
  • Improvement to intermittent driver timeout or application crash experienced while playing HELLDIVERS™ 2 on AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 series GPUs.  
  • AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Performance Metrics may intermittently fail to update while playing HELLDIVERS™ 2. 
  • Intermittent system freeze or low FPS on hybrid graphics notebooks pairing certain FreeSync enabled displays.