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AMD today announced the brand title of its 2017-yearender driver release, Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition. Scheduled to release some time in mid-December, under version number 17.12 WHQL, the drivers are expected to introduce performance enhancements across the board for GPUs based on the “Polaris” and “Vega” graphics architectures (Radeon RX 400 series, RX 500 series, and RX Vega series), while introducing new features.

AMD today posted a video presentation announcing the new drivers.

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AMD just released yet another driver, this round it is Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.4. The new driver amongst other things offers support for Oculus Dash Open Beta and DOOM VFR as well as offering a number of fixes.

Radeon™ Software Crimson ReLive Edition is AMD’s advanced graphics software for enabling high-performance gaming and engaging VR experiences. Create, capture, and share your remarkable moments. Effortlessly boost performance and efficiency. Experience Radeon Software with industry-leading user satisfaction, rigorously-tested stability, comprehensive certification, and more.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.4 drivers here. View the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.4 release notes here.

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Every year, AMD regales its users with a new major version of their driver suite, with added features and, usually, increased performance. In 2015, AMD introduced the Radeon Crimson driver release, which included a hefty performance package for some major titles, the new Radeon Settings design interface, and increased stability over the previous mega-release, Catalyst Omega. Last year, we were treated to the introduction of the ReLive, LiquidVR, and Radeon Chill features. AMD is keeping up with its annual overhauls, even after former RTG head, Raja Koduri, left the company for bluer pastures.

Twitter user Blaze #BlazeK_AMDRT shared some screenshots over Twitter which show that the new driver release will, among other things, include an OSD for performance metrics – not unlike what NVIDIA is offering with its GeForce Experience suite. However, AMD will likely keep ringing the “no registration necessary” bell to increase attractiveness of its software suite over NVIDIA’s. From the screenshots, however, it seems that AMD’s suite will offer more registers than NVIDIA, to polls like VRAM, CPU usage, among others. AMD’s track record with software and drivers has been much improved since Raja Koduri took the helms of RTG, with a much steadier driver release schedule, and pre-emptive releases introducing support for the latest and greatest games. It’s at least comforting to see that there’s no sign of that reverting after he left the company.

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AMD has released the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.11.2 beta software. The drivers come with launch-day optimization for “Star Wars: Battlefront II.” The drivers also fix a handful issues related to Radeon ReLive game video capture/streaming software, in which chroma artifacts would show up on the screen, and an issue which caused recording to fail when switching between borderless fullscreen and fullscreen modes. The drivers also address WattMan issues, in which undervolted values wouldn’t correctly apply on some “Polaris” (RX 400 and RX 500 series) GPUs, and underclocked GPU memory values not reflecting in the user-interface.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.2 drivers here.

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NVIDIA today has released the latest version of their GeForce Game Ready Graphics Driver. The new 388.31 drivers are optimized for the latest AAA games, “Star Wars Battlefront II,” and “Injustice 2″. NVIDIA has also added the corresponding 3D Vision profiles for both titles. In addition, they’ve included SLI profiles for Star Wars: Battlefront II and EVE Valkyrie – Warzone as well. According to them, the 388.31 drivers improve Destiny 2 performance by up to a staggering 53%. However, the more notable fixes include the micro-stuttering issue when using GPU monitoring tools to monitor GPU power and the driver not picking up GeForce GTX 1080 on the Alienware Amplifier.

You can download the new GeForce 388.31 WHQL Game Ready Graphics Drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

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AMD has released another driver suite for their Radeon graphics cards, in the form of the 17.11.1 Beta drivers. These bring support, and the best experience, for Call of Duty: WWII, with up to 5% faster performance on Radeon RX Vega64 (8 GB) graphics than with Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10.3 at 2560×1440.

Additionally, this driver brings AMD XConnect technology improvements for Vega 56. XConnect is AMD’s technology that allows seamless plug and play ability for eGPU enclosures, and with this update, AMD is increasing the number of eGPU solutions that support AMD’s RX Vega 56 graphics cards in this configuration. There’s also an extensive list of fixes (including a particularly nasty bug where system devices such as printers could be removed during Radeon Software uninstallation) and known issues, which you can catch after the break. As always, you can download your drivers right here, on the best website of the known universe.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.1 drivers here.

NVIDIA has released to retail their new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Graphics Card. The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti fills the position between the price/performance gap between the GTX 1070 and the GTX 1080 cards. The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is packed with 2,432 CUDA cores, and 8GB of memory running at 8Gbps, for a total bandwidth of 256 GB/s. Compared to the legendary GeForce GTX 970, there’s double the performance, giving you the power to play the latest and greatest games at 2560×1440, at incredible levels of detail.

We have a roundup of reviews on the new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition (reference-design) and the from NVIDIA AIC (add-in card) partners listed below:

• ANANDTECH - FE
• BIT TECH - FE
• HARDWARE CANUCKS - FE
• HOT HARDWARE - FE
• GURU3D – FE
• GURU3D – PALIT SUPER JETSTREAM
• GURU3D – MSI GAMING EDITION
• TOM’S HARDWARE – FE
• HARDOCP – MSI GAMING TITANIUM
• PC PERSPECTIVE – EVGA SC BLACK EDITION
• HEXUS – INNO3D iCHILL X3
• TECHPOWERUP! – COLORFUL iGAME VULCAN X TOP
• OCD REVIEW - ASUS ROG STRIX

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AMD released the latest version of its Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition drivers. Version 17.10.3 fixes two major issues that are affecting RX Vega graphics card owners in particular. The problem with The Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus game client crashing or hanging upon launch has been fixed. So does the other issue involving the Destiny 2 client’s instability when the user is playing the sixth mission on the single player campaign.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10.3 drivers here.

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NVIDIA today released GeForce 388.13 WHQL software. These drivers are game-ready for the week’s hottest AAA game releases, “Call of Duty: WWII,” “Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus,” and “Need for Speed: Payback.” This includes performance optimization, and GeForce Experience optimal settings. The drivers also add official support for the new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card, which makes its market debut on the 2nd of November.

The drivers also address a few bugs, including a rare issue with secondary displays blanking out on some systems, “Yellow bang appearing by the graphics entry in Device Manager,” and momentary display corruption on notebooks with hybrid GPUs, in which the display is switching between the CPU-integrated and NVIDIA discrete GPUs.

You can download the new GeForce 388.13 WHQL Game Ready Graphics Drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

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AMD released the latest version of its Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition drivers. Version 17.10.2 beta fixes a number of bugs, while building on the feature set of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update-exclusive driver update the company put out last week. To begin with, the drivers come with optimization for “Destiny 2,” “Assassin’s Creed: Origins,” and “Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.” One can expect performance improvements of a massive 43-50 percent on “Destiny 2,” a significant 13-16 percent on “Assassin’s Creed: Origins,” and 4-8 percent on “Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.”

The drivers also introduce an interesting new feature called “GPU Workload,” found in Radeon Settings, which lets you instantly switch between two GPU optimization modes: “gaming” and “compute.” The drivers can now simultaneously run up to 12 AMD Radeon GPUs on a single machine, making it economical for crypto-coin miners to install more GPUs into fewer machines, saving power and platform costs. The drivers also fix display corruption bugs related to “Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds,” and a rare game crash with “Hearts of Iron IV.”

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10.2 drivers here.