Guess what?
The Red team evaluated all customer concerns/feedback. In response, they provided a unified driver update for the AMD platform in the market, whereby delivering on the requests of our end-user community. The most important part of this update is that it was also optimized for the newly-released Resident Evil 3 Remake.
While the update offers further optimizations for Capcom’s latest Resident Evil installment, this new driver update also comes with several fixes for reported issues. For example, black screen bug within Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch during gameplay for long periods on certain RX Vega GPUs.
Furthermore, AMD Radeon Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.4.1 focuses on an issue that was the reason for the failure of HDR in enabling games and applications connecting and using the Vulkan API.
As it’s written in the release notes, the new driver also solves an issue that didn’t allow our favorite, Doom Eternal to launch when engaging some hybrid graphics interface settings properly.
Shown below are the crucial parts of the release notes for the new 20.4.1:
The AMD Radeon Adrenalin Driver 20.4.1 Release Notes With
Support For
• Resident Evil 3™Fixed Issues
• Overwatch™ and Heroes of the Storm™ may experience a black screen or application hang while gaming for extended periods on some Radeon RX Vega series graphics product system configurations.
• HDR may fail to enable applications and games using the Vulkan® API.
• Doom Eternal™ may fail to launch in some hybrid graphics system configurations.
• Radeon ReLive streaming may fail to launch or may crash when a stream session is started with performance metrics overlay enabled.
• Some clock values may fail to populate for a limited number of graphics products in the Radeon Settings Hardware information tab.
• Hotkeys can no longer be assigned to a single digit or character as this can block or cause interference with some default Windows® functionality.
• Some Radeon FreeSync Premium supported displays may not list all supported refresh rate options in Windows® when Radeon FreeSync Premium is enabled in the displays OSD settings.
Also, the Red Team gave specific instructions for installing this particular driver update with the following note:
NOTE:
This driver is not intended for use on AMD Radeon products running in Apple Boot Camp platforms. Users of these platforms should contact their system manufacturer for driver support.When installing Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.4.1 for the Windows® operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator, or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 20.4.1.
Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.4.1 requires Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to be installed.
According to the release notes, the compatible operating systems for this update is below:
Compatible Operating Systems
Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.4.1 is designed to support the following Microsoft® Windows® platforms. Operating System support may vary depending on your specific AMD Radeon product.Windows® 10 64-bit version
Windows 7 64-bit version with SP1 or higher
The AMD Radeon Adrenalin Driver 20.4.1 is available at AMD’s official website under the support (/release notes) section for downloading.