AMD's new Crimson driver was a big deal for the company. It replaced the long-running Catalyst Control Centre, added a number of new features and began the drive for AMD to release updates more regularly and with proper certification.
Unfortunately not everything went to plan, as mere days after the launch of the Crimson platform, users were reporting issues with graphics cards overheating, of fans not spinning up or sitting solid at 100 percent for no reason. AMD of course promised a fix and now we have it, with a number of additional tweaks and changes.
This was a quick turnaround for the company, which has a history of being rather slow on the uptake when it came to driver releases, often relying on calling them "beta" drivers and never quite finalising them before moving on to the next. That's not going to be the case with Crimson apparently, as it was right on the case with this one.
The full list of changes it brought about with this update, fixed all of the following:
[82050] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Snow flickers in a few locations in the game
[82240] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Sky rendering may be broken in some game locations
[82645] Fallout 4 - The compass may flicker during gameplay on AMD Radeon R9 390 Series products. We continue to investigate the issue with AMD Radeon R9 290 and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Series products
[82667] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Shadowy textures are visible around hills/structures/caves
[81890] Just Cause 3 - Texture corruption may be experienced during gameplay
[54874] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Poor AMD Crossfire™ technology performance may be experienced
[82338] The driver installation may fail while installing the ACP component
[82426] The font size in Chinese language installations may be too small
[82438] The label range values in some AMD FreeSync™ technology installations may be incorrect
[82536] The Radeon Settings dropbox does not close when it is clicked on a second time
[82603] The AMD OverDrive™ fan settings is always set to ON after first edit on reboot
[82586] Language shows up as Chinese Simplified when Chinese Traditional is selected in Windows® 7
[82656] Radeon Settings crashes on the Display tab when cloning a display via HDMI on some notebooks
[82671] AMD OverDrive fan speed is reset to Manual on exiting from a 3D game or application. Users will have to reset their AMD OverDrive pages to ensure issue is fixed
[82766] Radeon Settings does not get upgraded in some install scenarios
[82691] AMD OverDrive™ cannot revert to default settings in some situations
Anyone wishing to download the new version of the 15.11.1 Crimson drivers, can do so here.
