AMD Makes Available Its 16.8.1 Crimson Graphics Hotfix Driver

AMD has rolled out a new version of its Radeon Crimson Edition graphics driver, namely the 16.8.1 hotfix, which implements support for the producer’s new Radeon RX 460 and 470 GPUs and also adds a new Crossfire profile for F1 2016.

In addition to that, the present release resolves the low memory overclock for Radeon RX 480 cards, the application crash events encountered on some Radeon RX 480 + Crossfire configurations, as well as the low frame rate/stutter in Wolfenstein: The Old Blood on the same card.

Moreover, AMD fixes the poor Crossfire scaling in low-resolution configurations when playing The Division, the unexpected DOTA 2 low performance in AMD Crossfire mode, and the incorrect display of the Vulkan driver or API version in Radeon Settings.

Last but not least, version 16.8.1 hotfix has also managed to make sure that updating drivers via Radeon Settings won’t fail with an error message, or that Firefox won't crash when hardware acceleration is enabled for c...