v-2021.Q1.1

Driver installation instruction

2021-1-6 update

New feature and improvement

• Add AMD switchable graphics layer to switch AMD Vulkan driver between amdvlk and RADV
• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.2.164
• Navi21 performance tuning for game X-Plane, Madmax, Talos Principle, Rise of Tomb Raider, F12017

Issue fix

• RPCS3 Corruption observed on Game window on Navi10

v-2020.Q4.6

Driver installation instruction

2020-12-14 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Vulkan API version to 1.2.162
• Performance tuning for Shadow of the Tomb Raider on Navi21
• Enable extension VK_EXT_shader_terminate_invocation
• Enable extension VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate

Issue fix

• [AMDVLK issue #179] Corruption in X-Plane 11.50

v-2020.Q4.5

Driver installation instruction

2020-11-19 update

New feature and improvement

• Add support for Navi21

v-2020.Q4.4

Driver installation instruction

2020-11-13 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Vulkan API version to 1.2.159

Issue fix

• Driver does not work with two videocards: radeon+amdgpu
• [AMDVLK issue #135]Tropico 4 demo: Corrpution observed during game play

v-2020.Q4.3

Driver installation instruction

2020-11-5 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable VK_EXT_robustness2 for pre GFX9
• Update Vulkan API version to 1.2.158

Issue fix

• Vulkan apps fails in Wayland on upstream since Mesa 20.1
• [GPA] Counter collection hangs RenderDoc

v-2020.Q4.2

Driver installation instruction

2020-10-29 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Vulkan API version to 1.2.157

Issue fix

• [AMDVLK issue #160] DOOM Eternal GPU hang on Cultist Base

v-2020.Q4.1

Driver installation instruction

2020-10-20 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Vulkan API version to 1.2.156
• Enable extension: VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64

Issue fix

• 50% performance drop in 4k low for X-plane new update
• System hangs while playing Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus for 5-10 mins
• [Regression in v-2020.Q1.2 AMDVLK on Polaris GPU] Some shadow fails to be rendered
• Second Extinction crashes during launch

v-2020.Q3.6

Driver installation instruction

2020-9-27 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable extension VK_EXT_robustness2
• Enable extension VK_EXT_conditional_rendering

Issue fix

• Junk Screen is observed during gameplay on Doom VFR Game on Navi10
• Baldur's Gate 3 stops responding after enabling Vsync
• Flickering corruption visible in shadows in Baldur's Gate 3
• Green color corruption flashes and disappears on launching the jesse-cube demo
• Red Dead Redemption 2 game is not launching with LLPC driver with latest Game update
• [AMDVLK issue #170] Blank screen is observed while playing "Little Witch Nobeta demo" game

v-2020.Q3.5

Driver installation instruction

2020-9-12 update

New feature and improvement

• Update api version to 1.2.152
• Eliminate invisible copy of trace buffer on APU platforms

Issue fix

• Corruption observed in Detroit: Become Human on RX 5600XT
• Tropico 4 demo: Game Crashes instantly after launch
• Doom 2016: TDR / Hang Observed playing a while
• GTA IV: Game crashes instantly on launch

v-2020.Q3.4

Driver installation instruction

2020-8-24 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable extension: VK_EXT_image_robustness
• Update api version 1.2.150
• Shader Tuning opts for Ghost Recon Breakpoint
• Add panel setting for prefer compute path for non-local copies
• [Profiler] Output filename hashes and force-draw-granularity-profiling
• [Profiler] Add option to allow skipping of data writes for non-draw/dispatch cmd-bufs

Issue fix

• Intermittent crash of Doom Eternal on Navi10
• Strange Brigade Crashes on Launch
• HDR display gamut chromaticity coordinates is wrong
• Crash in GPA tests
• [Wayland] Vulkan apps fails in Wayland on upstream since Mesa 20.1
• Fallout 76 Game : System hang observed at Loading screen