The new AMD Radeon Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1, which the manufacturer has released outside of its usual release cycle, not only provides support for the successful third-person shooter Helldivers 2, but is also designed as a major product update and corrects numerous known problems. AMD is finally making improvements in various areas and is incorporating many error corrections and optimizations for RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 and various games.
Optimizations for new games and fixes for old bugs
First and foremost, AMD Radeon Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 has, as always, been made “Game Ready” for new games. In addition to the extremely successful Helldivers 2 on Steam, Skull and Bones developed by Ubisoft and the survival crafting game Nightingale, which will be released on February 20th, also receive official support. The official release notes also contain an extremely extensive list of various optimizations, bug fixes and improvements.
Source: AMD (Screenshot: PCGH) Although AMD does not explicitly identify the new graphics driver as a beta in the release notes, the release is clearly taking place outside of the usual release cycle, because the AMD Radeon Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.2.1 is only available via the direct link (. exe) available. The internal version name also differs and is Adrenalin v23.40.19.01.
Also compatible without the WHQL seal
Even if the new graphics driver does not carry the already uninformative “seal of quality” from Windows Hardware Quality Labs (“WHQL”), it is compatible with all currently relevant GPU architectures and graphics cards from AMD.
Radeon
Radeon™ RX 7900/7800/7700/7600 SeriesRadeon™ RX 6900/6800/6700/6600/6500/6400 SeriesRadeon™ RX 5700/5600/5500/5300 Series
Radeon Mobile
AMD Radeon™ RX 7900M Series GraphicsAMD Radeon™ RX 7900M/S Series GraphicsAMD Radeon™ RX 6800M Series GraphicsAMD Radeon™ RX 6700M Series GraphicsAMD Radeon™ RX 6600M Series GraphicsAMD Radeon™ RX 6500M Series GraphicsAMD Radeon™ RX 6300M Series Graphics
The new graphics driver is suitable for all 64-bit computer systems with Windows 10 and Windows 11 and is also available via the Microsoft Store integrated in Windows as Windows Driver Store Version 31.0.24019.1006.
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Sources: AMD