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AMD rolls out new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 drivers

by on25 February 2016


Optimized for DirectX 12 Ashes of the Singularity Benchmark 2.0

AMD has released its latest Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 drivers update which has all the performance optimizations for the newest DirectX 12 Ashes of the Singularity Benchmark 2.0 as well as Rise of the Tomb Raider game and brings a couple of new Crossfire Profiles and has several resolved issues.

According to the release notes, the new Radeon Software Crimson 16.2 drivers bring all performance, stability and quality optimizations for the recently released DirectX 12 Ashes of the Singularity Benchmark 2.0 from Oxide, Rise of the Tomb Raider game as well as Valve's new SteamVR Performance Test. AMD was keen to note that Radeon R9 390, Nano, and R9 Fury series GPUs all have been able to achieve VR Recommended status and their affinity multi-GPU feature already showed significant performance boost compared to a single GPU.

TheRadeon Software Crimson 16.2 drivers also include two new Crossfire profiles for Tom Clancy's The Division and the XCOM 2 games. 

In addition to those performance and stability optimizations, the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 drivers also fixes several issues including some with the AMD Radeon Settings, AMD Overdrive and Fallout 4, Far Cry 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider games. 

As it was the case with most recently released AMD Radeon Software drivers, this one also supports all AMD Radeon graphics cards since HD 7700 and HD 7900 series and is available for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10, in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. You can find the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 drivers over at AMD's dedicate support page, where you can also check out the full release notes.

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