v-2022.Q2.3

Driver installation instruction

2022-6-21 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.3.216
• Enable extension VK_KHR_push_descriptor
• Enable extension VK_AMD_shader_early_and_late_fragment_tests
• Performance optimization for Doom Eternal, Ashes of the Singularity， etc.

Issue fix

• CTS failure with latest Vulkan loader
• Pipeline cache failure on Ubuntu 22.04
• Corruption in Shadow of the Tomb Raider

v-2022.Q2.2

Driver installation instruction

2022-5-20 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.3.212
• Performance optimization for BasemarkGPU 1.2

Issue fix

• CTS failures with ANGLE
• CTS failures in dEQP-VK.api.copy_and_blit..depth_stencil_msaa_copy.

v-2022.Q2.1

Driver installation instruction

2022-4-3 update

New feature and improvement

• Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.3.208
• Enable extension VK_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout

Issue fix

• CTS segmentation fault in dEQP-VK.synchronization2.timeline_semaphore.device_host.write_copy_buffer_read_copy_buffer.buffer_16384
• CTS failure in dEQP-VK.api.external.semaphore.sync_fd.info_timeline
• Dota2 crash on Ubuntu22.04
• MSAA 2x Corruption in X4 Foundations
• Corruption in Valheim
• Corruption in God of War
• Problem in llpc with multiple GPUs

v-2022.Q1.3

Driver installation instruction

2022-2-22 update

New feature and improvement

• Update API version to 1.3.205

Issue fix

• CTS failures: dEQP-VK.spirv_assembly.instruction.compute.opudotaccsatkhr.*_out32
• gles cts failure in GLES3.functional.polygon_offset.fixed16_render_with_units with vulkan as angle backend
• [DXVK] CSGO: corruption observed on character helmet and fonts on navi21

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