Advanced Micro Devices is releasing its biggest consumer graphics driver update of the year as it aims to boost graphics performance for games, virtual reality, and content creation.
AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group is launching its Crimson ReLive Edition 17.
7.2 driver update for its graphics processing units (GPUs) with the ultimate goal of creating better experiences for gamers. It should result in better user interface features, improvements in first-person shooter games, quicker load times, more responsiveness, and various bug fixes. Game image captures should be much better in terms of graphics quality.Sasa Marinkovic, head of VR and software marketing at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD, said in a press briefing that the new driver software has the AMD LiquidVR 360 software development kit to enable better 360-degree 4K video playback for VR apps, with HD resolution in each eye.
The drivers also offer support for ambisonic audio, or six channels of audio for better immersion in VR apps.
The drivers have improved game responsiveness by reducing driver overhead, which resulted in up to 31 percent (50 milliseconds) quicker response time with Tom Clancy’s The Division.
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