AMD's new Adrenalin 25.8.1 Radeon driver is a big one, Battlefield 6, Mafia, FSR 4, and more

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 is here, and the latest driver and software for Radeon GPUs is a massive one. It not only adds support for new games like Mafia: The Old Country and WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers, but it also adds optimizations and support for this weekend's big Battlefield 6 Open Beta.

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The latest driver also adds support for the entry-level Radeon RX 9060 non-XT GPU, which has quietly launched this week as a budget 1080p gaming card for new builds. AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 is also a must for all RDNA 4 owners as it officially brings FSR 4 support to new releases like Mafia: The Old Country and WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers, while finally bringing the AI-powered upscaling solution to CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077.

There are also a few fixes in this driver release, addressing issues such as 4K video stuttering in Chrome and random crashes in titles like Battlefield 2042 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The driver is available to download right now. Here are the full release notes.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 Release Notes

New Product Support

• AMD Radeon RX 9060

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

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

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.