With the highly cryptic name “Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 22.40 for the Last of Us Part 1,” AMD has released a new beta graphics driver that was originally only intended to be made available to the press for testing. Performance increases, but problems remain.
Confusion continues surrounding the release of the previously PlayStation 5 exclusive suvival horror game The Last of Us Part 1 on PC. AMD has now released a beta driver originally intended for press testing for everyone to download, which increases performance but doesn’t solve the release’s many problems.
AMD releases beta drivers for The Last of Us Part 1
“AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 22.40.43.05 for the Last of Us Part 1,” the full name of the highly cryptically named experimental graphics driver, goes far beyond its post-apocalyptic optimizations staged in an atmosphere with Joel and Ellie improvements. Already integrated in Adrenaline 23.3.2.
The problems continued
Even if the experimental graphics driver with version number 22.40.43.05 can get a little more performance than the normal graphics driver, especially on current Radeon graphics cards based on the latest RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPU architectures, various problems remain, which are the ones that have been Yesterday’s release of The Last of Us Part 1 For PC side by side, it continues to exist.
The shader cache loads graphics cards
With many gamers reporting in the comments in the meantime over 2,500 “mostly negative” reviews about the game distribution platform Steam, the first compilation of the shader cache can not only take up to an hour or more, but also lead to Overload the GPU this entire period. A real “stress test” for graphics cards, as many gamers ironically note.
Download beta graphics driver
Graphics driver beta is now available Via the following link Downloaded from the official AMD servers. All performance improvements should also be included in the upcoming Adrenaline 23.4.1. The current issue with the shader cache compilation for the game can currently only be resolved by manually replacing the .DLL file.
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