AMD Releases AMD Radeon Adrenalin 18.10.1 Driver Offering Faster Performance in Black Ops 4 for RX 580 & Vega 64 GPUs

AMD Radeon Adrenalin Driver 21.6.2

AMD has rolled out the AMD Radeon Adrenalin 18.10.1 Driver which has been optimized for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and adds official support for the Windows 10 October 2018 update.

The new driver offers a performance gain up to 6% for those using a Radeon RX 580 (8GB) GPU while running Black Ops 4 in 1080p. Those packing an RX 580 GPU can witness up to 5% faster performance when running Activision’s latest Call of Duty installment in 1080p.

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We’ve included AMD’s official release notes for 18.10.1 driver down below:

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 Release Notes

Support For

Windows® 10 October 2018 Update

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

  • Up to 5% faster performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 on the Radeon RX Vega 64 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.3 at 1920×1080 (1080p).RS-258
  • Up to 6% faster performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 using Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 on the Radeon RX 580 (8GB) graphics card than with Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.3 at 1920×1080 (1080p).RS-259

Fixed Issues

  • HDMI Audio Drivers may sometimes not upgrade during Radeon Software installation.
  • Fortnite may experience lighting corruption when effects quality is set to High or Epic.
  • System configurations with 16+ CPU cores may experience a random system reboot during installation when upgrading Radeon Software from a version older than RSAE 18.8.1.
  • Sea of Thieves may experience flickering textures in multi GPU system configurations.

Known Issues

  • When using Radeon Overlay on system configurations with the latest Windows10 October 2018 Update some users may experience intermittent instability or game crashes.
  • Microsoft Office applications may experience lag or stutter when dragging applications.
  • Radeon RX Vega Series graphics products may experience elevated memory clocks during system idle.

The new driver can be downloaded from AMD’s official site right here.

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