AMD Radeon Adrenalin 21.10.3 Software Released

AMD recently released its latest software driver Radeon Adrenalin 21.10.3. This update provides support for several games including, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Riders Republic, Doom Eternal, and Age of Empires IV. Also included in this patch are known bug fixes such as a lack of CPU tuning options for some Ryzen 5950X users, elevated disk space consumption in Multimedia Athena Dumps folder, and game crashes while playing Battlefield V with some AMD GPUs. For download links and graphics card compatibility, continue reading AMD’s press release.

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 Driver

Riders Republic
Riders Republic

Guardian's of the Galaxy
Guardian’s of the Galaxy

Support For

  • Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™
    • Up to 21% increase in performance in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™ @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6900 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.2.RS-423
    • Up to 21% increase in performance in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™ @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.2.RS-424
  • Riders Republic™
  • Age of Empires™ IV
    • Up to 45% increase in performance in Age of Empires™ IV @ 4K Max Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.2.RS-425
  • Doom® Eternal:
    • Update 6.66

Fixed Issues

  • In Radeon™ Software, the CPU Tuning feature may be missing for some users with AMD Processors such as Ryzen™ 9 5950X Processor.
  • Some users may experience elevated disk space consumption by the Multimedia Athena Dumps folder.
  • While playing a game, some users may experience a black screen flicker if they have multiple displays connected and they attempt to switch between open windows (via Alt + Tab shortcut).
  • Battlefield™ V may crash during gameplay on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6600 Graphics.
  • Image corruption may be observed on some characters when Radeon™ Boost is enabled while playing Cyberpunk 2077® on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6700 XT Graphics.

Known Issues

  • Users may experience display corruption issues when they set their Samsung™ Odyssey G9 C49G95T monitor to 5120X1440 @ 240Hz.
  • Visual artifacts may be observed while playing Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6800M Graphics.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Radeon performance metrics and logging features may intermittently report extremely high and incorrect memory clock values.

Package Contents

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 installation package contains the following:

Product Compatibility

Radeon Product Compatibility
Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 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 21.10.3 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

Footnotes

  • RS-423 – Testing conducted by AMD as of October 21, 2021, on a test system comprised of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 16GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU, and Windows 10 Pro, with Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 and 21.10.2 on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™. Game tested with ultra preset at 4K. Performance may vary.
  • RS-424 – Testing conducted by AMD as of October 21, 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 21.10.3 and 21.10.2 on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™. Game tested with ultra preset at 4K. Performance may vary.
  • RS-425 – Testing conducted by AMD as of October 20, 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 21.10.3 and 21.10.2 on Age of Empires™ IV. Game tested with max preset at 4K. Performance may vary.

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AMD recently released its latest software driver Radeon Adrenalin 21.10.3. This update provides support for several games including, MarvelÂ’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Riders Republic, Doom Eternal, and Age of Empires IV. Also included in this patch are known bug fixes such as a lack of CPU tuning options for some Ryzen 5950X users, elevated disk space consumption in Multimedia Athena Dumps folder, and game crashes while playing Battlefield V with some AMD GPUs. For download links and graphics card compatibility, continue reading AMD's press release.

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