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Tuesday, November 29th, 2016
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| 12:15p | AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.5 Hotfix
Watch Dogs 2 is being released this week, and with that we receiving a new driver update from AMD bundled in with a couple of fixes. As a result, the Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.5 with Display Driver Version 16.40.3211.1101 is a minor update, but continues AMD's 2016 strategy of releasing drivers in accordance with game release schedules. We only have two fixes this time around. When playing games with CrossFire enabled, both The Division and Battlefield 1 were experiencing flickering during gameplay. AMD also only lists two new known issues in the release notes for this update: while a DirectX 11 Crossfire profile has been added for Dishonored 2, CrossFire is currently disabled for Windows 7 systems, a reason for this is not given. Also, Watch Dogs 2 may experience flickering or a game crash when using CrossFire with Dual Radeon RX 480’s. All other known issues listed are copied and pasted from the previous driver update. Lastly, we are receiving support for this week’s PC release of Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2. Sequel to the semi-controversial Watch Dogs from two years ago, time will tell if the follow-up fares any better. As always, those interested in reading more or installing the updated hotfix drivers for AMD’s desktop, mobile, and integrated GPUs can find them either under the driver update section in Radeon Settings or on AMDs Radeon Software Crimson Edition download page. |
| 12:30p | NVIDIA Releases 376.09 WHQL Driver Update
Watchdogs 2 is being released this week, and with that we receiving a new NVIDIA driver update, bundled in with a few fixes. The 376.09 update continues the Release 375 branch. In our fixes this week we first have a solution for high GPU idle clocks while two DisplayPort displays are plugged in. The NVIDIA Vulkan ICD also no longer breaks Vulkan initialization on AMD. NVIDIA Quadro cards were having trouble enabling a DisplayPort display after it’s EDID is unloaded, and that issue has now been resolved. There were crashes reported in Forza Horizon 3 (presumably no pun intended) when playing on a GeForce GTX 780 or GTX 770 with driver 372.90, which should now be fixed. Lastly, we have solutions for two Adobe related issues: Adobe Premiere Element 13 was crashing during launch and Adobe Lightroom was showing tearing and checkerboard corruption. Both of these should be fixed as well. Along with these fixes we are also getting game ready support and an SLI profile for this week’s release of Watch Dogs 2. On the other hand, while NVIDIA giveth NVIDIA may taketh away, and they have disabled SLI profiles for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered for reasons unknown. Anyone interested can download the updated drivers through GeForce Experience or on the NVIDIA driver download page. More information on this update and further issues can be found in the 376.09 release notes
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