30 July, 2017
According to the release notes, the AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.7.2 features new Radeon settings and features optimizations for improved gaming responsiveness in DirectX 9 and select DirectX 11 games.
Enhanced Sync is a display technology which helps minimize screen tearing while decreasing latency and stuttering at an unlocked frame rate.
The drivers have improved game responsiveness by reducing driver overhead, which resulted in up to 31 percent (50 milliseconds) quicker response time with Tom Clancy's The Division.
When testing with the popular gaming title Overwatch, AMD says that it witnessed 34 percent lower latency and a 92 percent lower frame variance with Enhance Sync enabled.
After updating their system with the newest Crimson drivers, AMD graphics card users can toggle Enhanced Sync in the Radeon Settings menu. Today's launch sees AMD/RTG bring the sequentially and demurely named "Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.7.2", but for all intents and purposes 17.7.2 serves as a major feature revamp to the original Crimson ReLive Edition, as well as refinement of Radeon ReLive and Radeon Chill. Meanwhile developers have received impressive new tools such as the Radeon GPU Profiler.
Radeon Additional Settings has been retired and its previously supported controls for Switchable Graphics, Colour Depth and Pixel Format have all been moved into Radeon Settings.
The recent driver update has doubled ReLive's supported recording bit rate to 100Mbps, meaning higher-quality streaming and happier viewers.
The second is a new tool for DX12 and Vulkan applications: Radeon GPU Profiler (RGP). For more details on new and supported games visit http://www.radeon.com/chill.
And it has upgrades to Radeon Chill that interactively regulates frame rate and now supports close to 40 of the world's greatest games.
Frame Rate Target Control now supports DirectX 12 and Multi-GPU.
Moving on, Radeon Chill has been given a thorough makeover, multi-GPU and hybrid GPU solutions along with Radeon XConnect-capable (external graphics) systems. The company explains, "PC game developers now have unprecedented, console-like in-depth access to a GPU and can easily analyze Async Compute usage, event timing, pipeline stalls, bottlenecks and other performance inefficiencies".
Up to 31% (50ms) faster reaction time utilizing Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.7.2 with Tom Clancy's The Division on the 8GB Radeon RX 580 illustrations card than with Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.7.1.
AMD also fixed some previous issues with Mass Effect Andromeda and HDR displays, issues with fan speeds when using Radeon WattMan, video playback issues with AMD FreeSync and a few issues with Radeon ReLive. Here is a nitty gritty review of ReLive Edition 17.7.2 as posted on the official site by AMD's Head of VR and Software Marketing Sasa Marinkovic directly.
