AMD Catalyst 16.6.1 Download and Discussion

It's out now!

Download link: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/amd-radeon-software-crimson-16-6-1-driver-download.html

 

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.1 Highlights

Support for:
Mirror's Edge Catalyst™
Paragon™

New AMD Crossfire profile available for:
Dark Souls III™

Fixed Issues
Display flickering or corruption may be experienced when playing videos in a web browser.
DiRT Rally™ may experience poor performance on some tracks with rainy/night scenes.
The HDMI® display scaling options in Radeon Settings may be missing when the display is set to an interlaced resolution.
The AMD Crossfire™ technology mode options in Radeon Settings may not take effect on Origin or Uplay applications.
Fallout™ 4 may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ technology mode for some game textures.
Flickering on Oculus Rift™ headsets may be experienced when multiple displays are connected with differing resolutions.
Radeon Settings additional settings page may fail to open after performing a Windows Update and then installing the latest Radeon Software Crimson Edition.
Known Issues
A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay".
Battlefield™ 4 may experience crashes when using Mantle. As a work around users are suggested to switch to DirectX®11.
Doom™ some game levels may experience shimmering textures.
The Division™ may hang when using Quad AMD Crossfire™ technology. As a workaround users are recommended to disable AMD Crossfire™ technology mode.
Radeon Settings gaming profile options for Uplay applications may not take effect.
Forza Motorsport 6: Apex™ may exhibit brightness flickering when using AMD FreeSync™ technology.
Frame Rate Target Control gaming profiles may fail to enable for some games.
On some AMD XConnect™ technology external GPU enclosures, a TDR may be observed when the dGPU is set to primary display and the laptop display is set to extended display with video playback.

 

wow nice!

AMD on time with unreleased Games !

Very wow !

Fixed Issues:
The AMD Crossfire™ technology mode options in Radeon Settings may not take effect on Origin or Uplay applications.
I effectively had to add the application .exe for every Uplay/Origin games for the Crimson settings to take effect

P.S. the package I downloaded from AMD says June the 2nd... so it's old already!

 

Downloaded, installed via upgrade, and.... nothing unusual happened, everything works.

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Interested!

Enough reason to download it for me.

 

deleted...doubled

 

That's a bit harsh. You could find a better point, like:


Battlefield™ 4 may experience crashes when using Mantle. As a work around users are suggested to switch to DirectX®11.

Haha. Yes, sadly that suggestion has been valid for every Frostbite 3 based games ever since the Windows 10 release.

-> If you have problems with our revolutionary superior technology which is too great and futuristic to support in our present days, the solution is to go back to the useless old thing which... just works...

 

ATI EEU Client Event Error in Event Viewer since 16.5.2 BETA Driver
Event Error 16388 still not fixed on Windows 7

 

Same performance on FS Ultra.

Api: 16.6.1 vs 16.5.3

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/aot/141621/aot/138212

 

What about the 10% difference in DX11, its not within the margin of error.

 

Ever since I used DDU for the first time, I've had some issues when installing drivers. Previously, the setup would install everything except the actual drivers (meaning I would still get Radeon Settings and all that jazz). I would then manually install the drivers by going through Device Manager and using the "update" option. This worked.

With this driver, using the Setup gives me "Detection Driver Error. Contact AMD for assistance." (a different error than usual) and trying to manually install the drivers give me a message saying that my current drivers (not even AMD, but Microsoft Basic Display Adapter) are more recent, so it doesn't install them.

Edit2: Even after reinstalling 16.3.2, I still cannot install 16.6.1. Windows still tells me my current drivers are the best ones available and won't install them.


Soooooo I'm a bit screwed. I'll try installing 16.3.2 and installing the new ones over them.

Edit: This is the "normal" error I get: "Driver Install: Windows® version does not support this operation"
And yes, I am indeed picking the right version before downloading. It installs manually fine.

 

How bad is the Doom shimmering?

 

Can someone please post the versions of the following?:
2d Driver
D3D Version
OGL Version

 

Link of new Gpu tweak?

 

Thanks

 

Anyone else getting a detection driver error trying to install this package? Tried it via upgrade, tried it clean with DDU, but I get the error everytime. 16.5.3 installs just fine.

 

I have added all Games from Shortcut (in DeskTop) to Crimson and Every Game works as intended.
Always better to Just do it :nerd:

 

Minority have this :bang:

Im Playing Now BF:H with Mantle of course and it's Solid as a Rock as Always !
I have not seen problems wit it since the Begining of Win_X

CIV, BF:4, BF:H, Thief, Sniper III works Just Great, and Yes i can't go with Reshade ;-)

THAT FPS in MANTLE :banana:

 

AMD still updating their Mantle driver.

Nice.