AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 Driver with Support for Halo Infinite and More

AMD released the new Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 21.12.1 driver with support for Halo Infinite and more, including a fix for several issues in Far Cry 5.

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The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 driver from AMD has been published. The updated driver adds support for Halo Infinite is a video game developed by 343 Industries.’s campaign mode, which will be released next week on December 8, as well as Fortnite, Icarus, and Blender 3.0, a 3D graphics package. In comparison to the previous driver, Halo Infinite gamers using higher-level Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards should anticipate performance boosts of up to 19% in the 4K Ultra setting.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 driver for Windows 10 and Windows 11 64-bit PCs may be downloaded directly from this page.

Highlights of Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1

In Support Of

Halo Infinite
- Using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 16 GB Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card, performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings improved by up to 17% compared to the previous software driver version.
- Using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 16 GB Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card, performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings improved by up to 19% compared to the previous software driver version.
- Using Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 on the 12 GB Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, performance in Halo Infinite @ 4K Ultra Settings improved by up to 16 percent compared to the previous software driver version.
Fortnite
Icarus
Blender 3.0 runs on Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards.

Issues that have been resolved

Some users may suffer a problem while using SteamVR Home on AMD Graphics devices such as Radeon VII Graphics.
Some AMD Graphics devices, such as the Radeon RX 5500 XT Graphics, may encounter driver timeouts during Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy gameplay.
When the user is in the lobby and tries to activate Radeon Software on the secondary display through the context menu while playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds with multiple displays connected in extended mode, Radeon Software may become unresponsive.
While playing Forza Horizon 5 with AMD Graphics devices like the Radeon RX 500 series Graphics, you may see visual corruption on a vehicle’s logo or license plate number.

Issues that have been identified

When a user imports a previously stored tuning profile after updating to the newest Radeon Software, the Power Tuning component may not load properly.
When activated on certain games and system combinations, Enhanced Sync may result in a blank screen. As an interim fix, any users who are having problems with Enhanced Sync should deactivate it.
Extremely high and inaccurate memory clock values may be reported by Radeon performance measurements and logging capabilities on occasion.

Important Reminders

On select AMD Graphics devices, such as the Radeon RX 6800M Graphics, users may see visual distortions when playing Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. AMD is collaborating with game creators to find a solution to this problem.

AMD is the source of this information.