AMD Adrenalin 21.5.1 packs higher performance for Resident Evil Village

Posted on Friday, May 07 2021 @ 9:39 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
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AMD released the Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.5.1 driver. This version promises up to 13 percent performance gains for Resident Evil Village and has optimizations for Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition. Other than this, you get a bunch of bug fixes. The driver can be downloaded over here.

The changelog

Support For
  • Resident Evil Village: Up to 13% increase in performance in Resident Evil Village @ 4K MAX settings, with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.5.1 on the 16GB Radeon™ RX 6800XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver edition 21.4.1.RS-362
  • Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition™

    Fixed Issues
  • Disco Elysium™ may experience texture flickering on trees with Radeon RX 6000 series graphics products.
  • Performance metrics may incorrectly report temperatures on Ryzen™ 5 1600 series processors.
  • Lower than expected performance may be experienced at 4K resolutions on Radeon RX 6000 series graphics products in some Payday 2™ missions.
  • Moonlight Blade™ may experience an application crash when entering a game with ray tracing enabled.
  • Green corruption may be observed in some video previews on the Radeon Software media pages or thumbnails.
  • Radeon Software hotkeys using the numpad may sometimes fail to correctly save or work after upgrading to a newer Radeon Software version.
  • Radeon Software recording and media files may intermittently fail to detect and tag Rainbow Six Siege™ screenshots, replays, or recordings.
  • Added Radeon Software game detection for some recently added Xbox Game Pass games.


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