Going by tech headlines alone, one could be forgiven for considering older graphics playing cards drop off the planet as soon as the brand new {hardware} hits cabinets. But GPU makers are inclined to help a number of generations of playing cards directly with their month-to-month driver updates, enhancing efficiency throughout the board and including fixes for particular new video games. That’s why homeowners of AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 playing cards — the cream of the crop until the RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX sequence dropped late final yr — felt miffed that they went two months with out an replace.

That brief drought seems to be over, as AMD has launched a brand new unified Adrenaline driver for RX 5000, 6000, and 7000 playing cards, plus desktop playing cards as previous because the RX 400 and laptop computer GPUs going again to the Radeon 600. Software model 23.2.1 is available for direct download and automated obtain by means of Adrenalin now.

In addition to sport fixes for well-liked titles just like the Dead Space remake, Forspoken, Spider-Man, and a handful of others, the package deal features a new model of AMD Link and “support for newly introduced streaming capabilities including pre-filter toggle, pre-analysis feature and CAML technology” on the RX 6000 sequence, particularly. The new drivers additionally repair a handful of bigs like failing to launch on Windows 11 22H2, scrolling points with Steam, and a handful of different particular sport bugs.

A number of customers are reporting PC boot problems after putting in the most recent Adrenaline driver, however at this level it’s exhausting to inform if it’s a really widespread difficulty. It could be a good suggestion to make a PC restore level simply to cowl your bases.