AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition Graphics Driver 21.4.1 for Windows 10 64-bit

Support For:

- AMD Link: A brand-new AMD Link for Windows client is now available that allows you to stream your games and desktop to other Radeon graphics enabled PCs.
- AMD Link: New "Link Game" feature that allows you to easily connect with a friend to play games together on a single PC or even help them troubleshoot a PC issue or problem.
- AMD Link: Redesigned streaming technology for better visuals and lower latency.
- AMD Link: New quality of service feature that dynamically adjusts your streaming settings based on your internet connection.
- AMD Link: Now supports up to 4k/144fps streaming.
- Radeon Software: Customized user interface options are now available in the Radeon Software installation to modify the user interface. Options exist for a Full Installation, Minimal Installation and Driver only installation.
- Radeon Software: Vivid Gaming Display Color Enhancement GD-187: A new color profile that allows users to enable a more vivid look for their display color.
- Radeon Software: Color Deficiency Correction GD-187: A new feature that allows users to adjust their display colors for all three major color deficiency types with strength sliders.
- Radeon Software: Improved search bar functionality.
- Radeon Software: Stats information for games is now available in the games tab.
- Radeon Software: Historical navigation buttons added to easily move back and forth between tabs.
- Radeon Software: Toggle added to enable or disable the built-in web browser.
- Radeon Software: Settings option added to enable or disable all hotkeys in a single click.
- Record & Stream: Recording and streaming settings have been consolidated into one easy to use tab.
- Record & Stream: A new Streaming Wizard is now available which helps users configure their recording and streaming settings for the first time. A new ‘adaptive’ quality setting is available in the wizard that allows Radeon Software to monitor your stream and make changes to quality based on your stream’s performance.
- Record & Stream: Improved scene editor usability for creating and editing scenes.
- Record & Stream: An option is now available to select which display you would like to record or stream from in multiple display system configurations.
- Performance Tuning: Introduced CPU metrics and monitoring to the performance metrics tab in Radeon Software.
- Performance Tuning: Improvements made to the performance metrics tab including design updates to the graphs for metrics, more performance readouts, improved logging controls and improved performance overlay controls and graphs.
- AMD Crash Defender: Preserves data and keeps your system running in some cases where your system may have otherwise experienced a crash or hang.
- Microsoft PlayReady AV1 Decode SupportGD-187
- AMD Eyefinity support extended to Ryzen Mobile 4000 and Ryzen Mobile 5000 series.

Fixed Issues:

- Brightness flickering may intermittently occur in some games or applications when Radeon FreeSync is enabled, and the game is set to use borderless fullscreen.
- SteamVR may experience an application crash when a VR headset is connected on Radeon RX 500 series graphics products.
- Some high refresh rate, high resolution TV displays may experience corruption when connected via HDMI on Radeon RX 6000 series graphics products.
- Applying changes in Radeon Performance Tuning may sometimes fail to take effect for changes made to power tuning.
- Lower than expected performance may be experienced in some CPU intensive workloads or games.
- Global performance tuning overclock profiles may sometimes override game specific performance tuning profiles or cause game specific performance tuning profiles to fail to load on a games launch.
- Radeon Chill may experience lower than expected performance when a game is left idle for an extended period with Radeon Chill enabled.
- Flickering may be observed in Radeon Software performance overlay while playing Cyberpunk 2077 on Radeon RX 6000 series graphics products.

Known Issues:

- Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
- Connecting two displays with large differences in resolution/refresh rates may cause flickering on Radeon RX Vega series graphics products.
- Radeon performance metrics and logging features may intermittently report extremely high and incorrect memory clock values.
- Cyberpunk 2077 may experience shadow corruption on Radeon RX 6000 series graphics when ray tracing is enabled.
- Disco Elysium may experience texture flickering on trees with Radeon RX 6000 series graphics products.
- Radeon Software may experience a crash when Record & Stream tab is in use and a display is hot plugged.
- Radeon FreeSync may intermittently become locked while on desktop after performing task switching between extended and primary displays upon closing a game, causing poor performance or stuttering. A system restart is a potential workaround if this is experienced.
- Performance metrics may incorrectly report temperatures on Ryzen 5 1600 series processors.
- The download or launch Ryzen Master buttons in Radeon Software may intermittently disappear or may fail to initialize Ryzen Master.
- If Ryzen Master is not detected in Adrenalin software after installation, a system restart maybe required.

AMD Link for Windows Known Issues

- AMD is investigating isolated reports of intermittent loss of signal during Stream Optimization if HEVC is used on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products or later. A workaround is to use the AVC encoding setting instead.
- Intermittent grey frame corruption might be observed when streaming with HEVC on certain configurations via an Internet connection. A workaround is to use the AVC encoding setting instead.

Package Contents:

- The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.4.1 installation package contains the following: Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.4.1 Driver Version 21.10.02 for Windows 10 and 21.09.02 for Windows 7 (Windows Driver Store Version 27.20.21002.112)

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 21.4.1 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 21.4.1.

Radeon Desktop Product Family Compatibility:

- Radeon RX 6900 Series Graphics
- Radeon RX 6800 Series Graphics
- Radeon RX 5700 Series Graphics
- Radeon RX 5600 Series Graphics
- Radeon RX 5500 Series Graphics
- Radeon VII
- Radeon RX Vega Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon Pro Duo
- Radeon RX 500 / Radeon 500X Series Graphics
- Radeon RX 400 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R7 200 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R7 300 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R9 Nano Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R9 300 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R9 200 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R5 300 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R5 200 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon HD 8500 - HD 8900 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon HD 7700 - HD 7900 Series Graphics

Radeon Mobility Product Family Compatibility:

- AMD Radeon RX 5700M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 5600M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 5500M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 5300M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon 600 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R9 M200 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R9 M300 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R7 M200 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R7 M300 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R7 M400 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R5 M200 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon R5 M300 Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon HD 8500M - HD 8900M Series Graphics
- AMD Radeon HD 7700M - HD 7900M Series Graphics

AMD Desktop Processors with Radeon Graphics Product Compatibility:

- AMD Ryzen Processors with Radeon Vega graphics
- AMD Ryzen PRO Processors with Radeon Vega graphics
- AMD Athlon Processors with Radeon Vega Graphics
- AMD Athlon PRO Processors with Radeon Vega Graphics
- AMD A-Series APUs with Radeon R4, R5, R6, or R7 Graphics
- AMD Pro A-Series APUs with Radeon R5 or R7 Graphics
- AMD Athlon Series APUs with Radeon R3 Graphics
- AMD Sempron Series APUs with Radeon R3 Graphics

AMD Processors with Radeon Graphics Product Compatibility:

- AMD Ryzen Mobile processors with Radeon Vega graphics
- AMD Athlon Mobile Processors with Radeon Vega Graphics
- AMD A-Series and FX processors with Radeon graphics
- AMD Ryzen PRO Mobile processors with Radeon Vega graphics
- AMD Athlon PRO Mobile processors with Radeon Vega graphics
- AMD A-Series PRO processors with Radeon graphics
- AMD FX-Series APUs with Radeon R7 Graphics
- AMD E-Series APUs with Radeon R2 Graphics
- AMD Radeon HD 8180 - HD 8400 Series Graphics

AMD Issue Reporting Form:

- This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, visit the AMD Issue Reporting Form.

How-To Uninstall AMD Radeon Software:

- Start by opening the Control Panel
- For Windows 10/8.1, right-click on the Windows button and select Control Panel from the Context Menu
- For Windows 7, click on the Windows button and select Control Panel from the Start Menu
- In the Control Panel select Programs and Features
- Select AMD Install Manager and then click Uninstall/Change
- Check all items, and then click the Uninstall button.
- Note: If you had others versions of AMD drivers installed previously, you should get an additional prompt providing the options to remove All Versions or Current Version.
- Select All Versions to remove all AMD drivers and application components (recommended).
- Select Current Version will uninstall only the latest version of the drivers and its related components.
- The uninstall process will begin removing drivers and software components.
- Select Restart Now to complete the uninstallation process.
- To verify that the AMD Radeon Software has been removed from the system, return to the Program and Features list, and check that there are no AMD entries. If AMD specific entries are still listed, remove them using the above process.

How-To Install AMD Radeon Software:

- Ensure that any existing versions of AMD Radeon Software on the system have been uninstalled before proceeding with installing a new driver.
- Close all opened applications including anti-virus, firewall, remote-access, or webcam software before attempting the install process.
- Double-click the downloaded file and select Install to begin file extraction process.
- Note: It is recommended to use the default destination folder for installation.
- Select the desired components or keep default selection (recommended) and click Install.
- The drivers and software components will begin installing.
- Note: The screen will flicker whilst the AMD Radeon Software is being installed. If you have multiple displays, some of them may turn black for a few seconds.
- Once the drivers and software have been successfully installed, choose Restart Now
- Note: A system restart is required to complete the installation process.

About Graphics Drivers:

While installing the graphics driver allows the system to properly recognize the chipset and the card manufacturer, updating the video driver can bring about various changes.

It can improve the overall graphics experience and performance in either games or various engineering software applications, include support for newly developed technologies, add compatibility with newer GPU chipsets, or resolve different problems that might have been encountered.

When it comes to applying this release, the installation steps should be a breeze, as each manufacturer tries to make them as easy as possible so that each user can update the GPU on their own and with minimum risks (however, check to see if this download supports your graphics chipset).

Therefore, get the package (extract it if necessary), run the setup, follow the on-screen instructions for a complete and successful installation, and make sure you reboot the system so that the changes take effect.

That being said, download the driver, apply it on your system, and enjoy your newly updated graphics card. Moreover, check with our website as often as possible in order to stay up to speed with the latest releases.