AMD Crimson 16.9.1 Hotfix Graphics Driver Released (Vulkan API v1.0.21)

AMD has released a hotfix graphics driver that brings new CrossFire profiles for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (DirectX 12) and DOTA 2 (new CrossFire profile for DX11), and fixes the following issues:

• A small number of 144Hz non-FreeSync enabled displays may exhibit flickering during gaming or on desktop.
• FreeSync may stay enabled while on desktop causing flickering.
• Grand Theft Auto V may experience an application hang after loading story mode.
• DiRT Rally rain drops may flicker when using high or ultra in game settings.
• DOOM may experience a hang on game exit in some limited AMD PowerXpress configurations.
• Total War Warhammer may experience negative AMD CrossFire scaling on some Radeon RX 400 series configurations.
• GPU utilization may remain high when idle after running SteamVR performance benchmark.
• Pixel format options may be missing from Radeon Settings for some limited system configurations on Radeon RX 480 graphics.
• Radeon Software may intermittently fail to install or hang on some AMD CrossFire configurations. If this happens users can reboot and re-install without issue as a workaround.
• Some Radeon RX 400 series graphics products may experience high GPU usage when resuming from sleep.

Crimson 16.9.1 supports all recent Radeon GPUs (RX 400, R9, R7, R5, HD 7700, HD 7900, HD8500, HD 8900).

Crimson 16.9.1 can be downloaded from THIS PAGE.

Release notes are available HERE.

 
AMD Crimson 16.9.1 is an OpenGL 4.5 and exposes 311 OpenGL extensions for a Radeon RX 470 on Windows 10 64-bit. These OpenGL extensions are listed in this post.

The Vulkan API support has been updated to version 1.0.21. Here is the Vulkan report from GPU Caps Viewer:

- Instance extensions: 3
	- VK_KHR_surface (version: 25)
	- VK_KHR_win32_surface (version: 5)
	- VK_EXT_debug_report (version: 3)
- Physical devices: 1
	- [Device 0]: Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics
		- API version: 1.0.21
		- vendorID: 4098
		- deviceID: 26591
		- driver version: 4206592
		- extensions: 8
			- VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge (version: 1)
			- VK_KHR_swapchain (version: 68)
			- VK_AMD_rasterization_order (version: 1)
			- VK_AMD_shader_ballot (version: 1)
			- VK_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax (version: 1)
			- VK_AMD_shader_explicit_vertex_parameter (version: 1)
			- VK_AMD_gcn_shader (version: 1)
			- VK_AMD_draw_indirect_count (version: 1)
		- device limits
			- maxImageDimension1D: 16384
			- maxImageDimension2D: 16384
			- maxImageDimension3D: 8192
			- maxImageDimensionCube: 16384
			- maxImageArrayLayers: 2048
			- maxTexelBufferElements: 4294967295
			- maxUniformBufferRange: 4294967295
			- maxStorageBufferRange: 4294967295
			- maxPushConstantsSize: 128
			- maxMemoryAllocationCount: 4096
			- maxSamplerAllocationCount: 1048576
			- bufferImageGranularity: 1
			- sparseAddressSpaceSize: 1099511627775
			- maxBoundDescriptorSets: 32
			- maxPerStageDescriptorSamplers: 4294967295
			- maxPerStageDescriptorUniformBuffers: 4294967295
			- maxPerStageDescriptorSampledImages: 4294967295
			- maxPerStageDescriptorStorageImages: 4294967295
			- maxPerStageDescriptorInputAttachments: 4294967295
			- maxPerStageResources: 4294967295
			- maxDescriptorSetSamplers: 4294967295
			- maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffers: 4294967295
			- maxDescriptorSetUniformBuffersDynamic: 8
			- maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffers: 4294967295
			- maxDescriptorSetStorageBuffersDynamic: 8
			- maxDescriptorSetSampledImages: 4294967295
			- maxDescriptorSetStorageImages: 4294967295
			- maxDescriptorSetInputAttachments: 4294967295
			- maxVertexInputAttributes: 4294967295
			- maxVertexInputBindings: 32
			- maxVertexInputAttributeOffset: 4294967295
			- maxVertexInputBindingStride: 16383
			- maxVertexOutputComponents: 128
			- maxTessellationGenerationLevel: 64
			- maxTessellationPatchSize: 32
			- maxTessellationControlPerVertexInputComponents: 128
			- maxTessellationControlPerVertexOutputComponents: 128
			- maxTessellationControlPerPatchOutputComponents: 120
			- maxTessellationControlTotalOutputComponents: 4096
			- maxTessellationEvaluationInputComponents: 128
			- maxTessellationEvaluationOutputComponents: 128
			- maxGeometryShaderInvocations: 127
			- maxGeometryInputComponents: 128
			- maxGeometryOutputComponents: 128
			- maxGeometryOutputVertices: 1024
			- maxGeometryTotalOutputComponents: 16384
			- maxFragmentInputComponents: 128
			- maxFragmentOutputAttachments: 8
			- maxFragmentDualSrcAttachments: 1
			- maxFragmentCombinedOutputResources: 4294967295
			- maxComputeSharedMemorySize: 32768
			- maxComputeWorkGroupCount: [65535; 65535; 65535]
			- maxComputeWorkGroupInvocations: 1024
			- maxComputeWorkGroupSize: [1024; 1024; 1024]
			- subPixelPrecisionBits: 8
			- subTexelPrecisionBits: 8
			- mipmapPrecisionBits: 8
			- maxDrawIndexedIndexValue: 4294967295
			- maxDrawIndirectCount: 4294967295
			- maxSamplerLodBias: 15.996094
			- maxSamplerAnisotropy: 16.000000
			- maxViewports: 16
			- maxViewportDimensions: [16384; 16384]
			- viewportBoundsRange: [-32768.000000 ; 32767.000000]
			- viewportSubPixelBits: 8
			- minMemoryMapAlignment: 64
			- minTexelBufferOffsetAlignment: 1
			- minUniformBufferOffsetAlignment: 16
			- minStorageBufferOffsetAlignment: 4
			- minTexelOffset: 4294967232
			- maxTexelOffset: 63
			- minTexelGatherOffset: 4294967264
			- maxTexelGatherOffset: 31
			- minInterpolationOffset: -2.000000
			- maxInterpolationOffset: 2.000000
			- subPixelInterpolationOffsetBits: 8
			- maxFramebufferWidth: 16384
			- maxFramebufferHeight: 16384
			- maxFramebufferLayers: 2048
			- framebufferColorSampleCounts: 15
			- framebufferDepthSampleCounts: 15
			- framebufferStencilSampleCounts: 15
			- framebufferNoAttachmentsSampleCounts: 15
			- maxColorAttachments: 8
			- sampledImageColorSampleCounts: 15
			- sampledImageIntegerSampleCounts: 15
			- sampledImageDepthSampleCounts: 15
			- sampledImageStencilSampleCounts: 15
			- storageImageSampleCounts: 15
			- maxSampleMaskWords: 1
			- timestampComputeAndGraphics: 1
			- timestampPeriod: 40.000000
			- maxClipDistances: 8
			- maxCullDistances: 8
			- maxCombinedClipAndCullDistances: 8
			- discreteQueuePriorities: 2
			- pointSizeRange: [0.000000 ; 8191.875000]
			- lineWidthRange: [0.000000 ; 8191.875000]
			- pointSizeGranularity: 0.125000
			- lineWidthGranularity: 0.125000
			- strictLines: 1
			- standardSampleLocations: 1
			- optimalBufferCopyOffsetAlignment: 1
			- optimalBufferCopyRowPitchAlignment: 1
			- nonCoherentAtomSize: 128