v-2022.Q1.2

Driver installation instruction

2022-1-26 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable extension VK_EXT_provoking_vertex
• Enable extension VK_EXT_depth_clip_control
• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.3.203 and enable Vulkan 1.3 support
• Enable SPIRV 1.6

v-2022.Q1.1

Driver installation instruction

2022-1-19 update

New feature and improvement

• Enhance ASTC software Gpu decode pass
• Add Navi24 support

v-2021.Q4.3

Driver installation instruction

2021-12-27 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable extension VK_EXT_global_priority_query
• Update API version to 1.2.201

Issue fix

• CTS dEQP-VK.dynamic_rendering.cmdbuffer failures
• Ubuntu21.04+Wayland Vulkan performance ~40% lower compared to 20.04
• Leak of DeferredHostOperation and fence memory

v-2021.Q4.2

Driver installation instruction

2021-12-8 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.2.197
• Enable extension VK_EXT_index_type_uint8
• Enable extension VK_KHR_format_feature_flags2
• Enable extension VK_EXT_border_color_swizzle
• Enable extension VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering
• Enable extension VK_EXT_primitive_topology_list_restart
• Enable extension VK_EXT_pageable_device_local_memory
• Enable extension VK_EXT_ycbcr_image_arrays

Issue fix

• CTS test dEQP-GLES2.functional.clipping.point.wide_point_clip fails on angle
• Driver restricts YUV planar image views to 1 layer which is against the spec

v-2021.Q4.1

Driver installation instruction

2021-11-4 update

New feature and improvement

• Limit the maximum memory size of pipeline cache in 32-bit system
• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.2.195
• Improve the shader cache hit rate

Issue fix

• Runtime Setting `PipelineCachingEnvironmentVariable' Incorrect Behavior
• Inappropriate memory size requirements causing high memory usage
• Deadlock in MemoryCacheLayer

v-2021.Q3.7

Driver installation instruction

2021-9-30 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable extension: VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product
• Enable extension: VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float/VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float2
• Update Khronos Headers to 1.2.191
• Add DCC present PAL setting: DisplayDccSkipRetileBlt
• Add RGP detailed thread trace support for compute
• Enable flat scratch for navi21
• Optimize pipeline early compile
• Reduce CPU cost in render pass

Issue fix

• [AMDVLK-203][DXVK-1.8] Skyrim Special Edition: Rendering issues with menu spell effects

v-2021.Q3.6

Driver installation instruction

2021-9-9 update

New feature and improvement

• Enable extension VK_EXT_load_store_op_none
• Enable extension VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory
• Add exclusion for implicit external synchronization if there is no layout transition
• Update Khronos Headers to 1.2.188
• Valhiem shader optimization

Issue fix

• [XGL issue #126] Switchable graphics layer filters out cards AMDVLK dropped support for
• Heavy flickering observed while performing ALT-TAB in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Vulkan
• Corruption when turning on DebugOverlayEnable
• RPCS3 Corruption observed on game window
• [AMDVLK issue #236] Confusing implementation of VK_EXT_hdr_metadata
• GPU Profiler: per-draw SPM filenames collide and clobbering each other if the draws use the same shaders

v-2021.Q3.5

Driver installation instruction

2021-8-24 update

New feature and improvement

• Add Navi23 support
• Add settings to override bin size calculation

Issue fix

• [Angle] Failures while running CTS "dEQP.KHR_GLES31/core_shader*" test group

v-2021.Q3.4

Driver installation instruction

2021-8-11 update

Issue fix

• Fix broken switchable graphics layer

v-2021.Q3.3

Driver installation instruction

2021-8-6 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Khronos Headers to 1.2.185
• Performance tuning for Rage2 on Navi21

Issue fix

• [AMDVLK #228] Kernel driver crash if the game has been started with RADV before
• Valheim crashes when GPU profiler is enabled in
• Driver uses wrong pipeline cache between enable/disable some runtime settings