AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 Release Notes
Highlights
New Game Support
Mafia: The Old Country
Mecha BREAK
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
Valorant (Unreal Engine 5 release)
Battlefield™ 6 Open Beta
New Game Support for AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4)
Cyberpunk 2077
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
Mafia: The Old Country
Arena Breakout: Infinite
Game of Thrones: Kingsroad
Wreckfest 2
Lies of P
New Game Support for HYPR-Tune
The Alters
F1® 25
Expanded Vulkan Extension Support
VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16
VK_EXT_device_generated_commands
VK_KHR_robustness2
VK_KHR_depth_clamp_zero_one
Click HERE for more information about other Vulkan® extension support.
AMD ROCm™ on WSL for AMD Radeon™ RX 7700 XT
The following has been added to WSL 2:
Forward Attention 2 (FA2) decode kernel enablement
New models
Deepseek R1 Distilled (7B, 32B, 70B)
Qwen 2.5 7B
Find more information on ROCm on Radeon compatibility here and configuration of WSL 2 here.
Installation instructions for Radeon Software with WSL 2 can be found here.
Fixed Issues and Improvements
Stutter and lower than expected performance may be observed while playing 4K resolution YouTube videos in Chrome.
Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Monster Hunter Wilds with Radeon™ Anti-Lag and Instant Replay enabled.
Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing Battlefield™ 2042.
Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
Stutter improved while playing Call of Duty®: Warzone™ Season 03 ‘Verdansk’ map on some AMD Graphics Products
NOTE: Stutter has been reduced with 25.8.1, and AMD is working with the developer toward a full solution.
Texture issues may be observed while using Oculus Rift S on RX 5000 and 6000 series graphics products.
Increased number of parameters supported in Vulkan Llama.cpp on AMD Ryzen™ AI MAX+ products.
Known Issues
Corruption may appear while playing Mafia: The Old Country on Radeon™ RX 6600 series graphics products.
Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing The Last of Us Part II on Radeon™ RX 7900 series graphics products.
Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Wuchang: Fallen Feathers with FSR 4 enabled on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing FBC: Firebreak on some AMD Ryzen™ processors such as the Ryzen™ AI 300 series and the Ryzen™ 7000 series.
Intermittent application crash may be observed while playing NBA 2K26 in MyCareer mode on Radeon™ RX 9070 series graphics products.
Package Contents
AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 Driver Version 25.10.25.01 for Windows® 10 and Windows® 11 (Windows Driver Store Version 32.0.21025.1024).
Ryzen™ AI NPU MCDM Driver version 32.00.0203.280 (Date: 2025-05-16)
The AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 installation package can be downloaded from the following link:
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AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 Driver for Windows® 10 & Windows® 11 64-bit
Systems pairing RDNA series graphics products combined with Polaris or Vega series graphics products:
Use the Auto-Detect and Install Driver Updates option available here.
Installing AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition
For detailed instructions on how to correctly uninstall or install AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, please refer to the following support resources:
How-To Uninstall AMD Software on a Windows® Based System
How-To Install AMD Software on a Windows® Based System
NOTE: This driver is not intended for use on AMD Radeon products running in Apple Boot Camp platforms. Users of these platforms should contact their system manufacturer for driver support. When installing AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 for the Windows® operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator, or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1.
Radeon Product Compatibility
AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 is compatible with the following AMD Radeon products.
Radeon™ RX 9070 / 9060 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon™ AI PRO R9700
Radeon™ RX 7900/7800/7700/7650/7600 Series Graphics
Radeon™ RX 6900/6800/6700/6600/6500/6400 Series Graphics
Radeon™ RX 5700/5600/5500/5300 Series Graphics
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