AMD Adrenalin 26.5.1 is Out, and Radeon Users Waited Six Weeks for This

[David_Schroth]

Six weeks is a long time to wait for a Radeon driver, and 26.5.1 is not the kind of release that makes up for the gap. AMD dropped Adrenalin Edition 26.5.1 on May 6, the first public Adrenalin update since 26.3.1 landed on March 20. The previous release brought FSR 4.1 and Ray Regeneration 1.1 […]

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[Grimlakin]

Still riding my 7900xtx wave... lol... This card is long in the tooth but keeps getting the job done.

 

[DrezKill]

6 weeks is a long time? I go for months without updating my GPU drivers.

Still riding my 7900xtx wave... lol... This card is long in the tooth but keeps getting the job done.

One of my clients (my friend's girlfriend's son who is in his 30s) just upgraded to that card in late 2024, so he's not moving on from it any dang time soon. Besides, he plays online shooters at 1080p with settings on low, so even the card he has now is being horribly wasted.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I personally wish more people would stop constantly updating their **** drivers all the time. I strongly suspect it's the reason for so many issues I read about online. Installers ****ting the bed and causing bizzare driver issues.

I've been gaming on PC since the late 90's and I've only ever had a handful of driver issues, largely because I'd leave my **** drivers alone unless I started experiencing an issue in a game I was playing or a new must have feature is in a new drop.

 

[Brian_B]

I actively avoid driver updates - at least until they have been vetted.

No side is blameless

 

[DrezKill]

I've been gaming on PC since the late 90's and I've only ever had a handful of driver issues, largely because I'd leave my **** drivers alone unless I started experiencing an issue in a game I was playing or a new must have feature is in a new drop.

I actively avoid driver updates - at least until they have been vetted.

Yupz, that's how I roll too. In Linux the situation is different, cuz I'm on a rolling distro, and sometimes my GPU drivers get updated when my distro releases a big wave of package updates. It's still not very often, but those Linux GPU drivers get updated more often than the Windows ones.