Are you still stuck deep in Battlefield 6 and dearly desiring a driver update to improve performance on your Radeon RX 6000 series GPU? Well, we have good and bad news for you: the latest Adrenalin update adds game-specific support for Battlefield 6 as well as Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2but that doesn’t include your GPU. Indeed, with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2, AMD has added support for those two games and a number of new Vulkan extensions, yet those updates are only available to gamers with Radeon RX 7000 and RX 9000 series graphics cards.
It’s not even all good news for Radeon RX 7000 series owners. Folks who have a Radeon RX 7900 series card—that’s the XT or XTX—that includes a USB Type-C port on the back may be dismayed to know that the new driver disables that port’s ability to power external devices. It also disables the port’s ability to act as a USB port at all. Instead, it is simply an oddly-shaped DisplayPort connection now.
Of course, as with any new driver release, AMD has packed in some bug fixes for the new bundle. Crashes in The Last of Us Part IIRemedy’s co-op Control follow-up FBC Firebreakand NBA 2K25‘s MyCareer mode should be resolved, while stuttering in Baldur’s Gate 3corruption in Serious Sam 4and VR issues in VTOL VR should be all sewn up. Also, AMD seems to have resolved a problem where running VR headsets at 80 or 90 Hz could cause stuttering. Finally, no less than ten separate security issues have apparently been resolved in this driver.
Remaining known issues include a long-standing bug where Cyberpunk 2077 crashes when trying to play in RT Overdrive mode, intermittent crashes or driver timeouts in Battlefield 6 on certain integrated graphics, similar behavior in Roblox on RX 7000 GPUs, texture flickering in BF6 when using AMD Record and Stream, and missing Radeon Anti-Lag 2 in Counter-Strike 2 on Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs. AMD says to try switching to Vulkan (by adding -vulkan to your Steam launch options) if you must have Anti-Lag 2 support in CS2.
AMD did not explain whether its choice to deploy New Game Support and Expanded Vulkan Support to just its two newest generations of GPUs is indicative of the RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs being moved to legacy support like the Vega architecture, or if it’s simply a one-off for this driver release. In AMD’s defense, Battlefield 6 already runs pretty well on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, so there’s not exactly a pressing need for that update on those cards. Still, it would be awfully early for AMD to be dropping non-security driver update support for RDNA 2. We’ve sent in a request for comment to AMD and will update this post if we hear back.
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