AMD Adrenalin 26.10.2 Driver Lists 10 Fixes for Radeon RX 7000, RX 9000
AMD's optional Adrenalin 26.10.2 driver, posted Oct. 30, lists fixes for RX 7000 video timeouts and RX 9000 Frame Generation crashes, with 9 known issues open. No independent tests yet.
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AMD's Radeon RX 9000 series product imagery. The image is generic and does not show the Adrenalin 26.10.2 driver itself.
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AMD posted Adrenalin Edition 26.10.2 on Oct. 30, an optional Windows driver for Radeon graphics cards and Ryzen processors with Radeon graphics, and its release notes list 10 fixed issues and 9 known ones.
AMD's notes list 10 fixes and 9 known issues; RX 5000 and Ryzen AI 9 400 have no listed fixes. All entries are AMD's statements.
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Every fix below is AMD's own statement in those notes. The headline entries cover three product lines. On Radeon RX 7000 series cards, AMD says it fixed driver timeouts that could hit video playback on Windows 11 when Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS) is switched on. On RX 9000 series cards, it lists a fix for system crashes or hangs when a player switches applications or toggles an overlay in a game running AMD FSR Frame Generation. On Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 Series processors, it says Final Fantasy Resonance no longer causes intermittent system shutdowns.
The rest of the list is narrower. AMD names fixes for Valor Mortis, which could shut down RX 7600 systems and time out the driver on other RX 7000 cards, and for crashes when overlays such as Xbox Game Bar open or close while AMD's own Performance Metrics Overlay runs. It also lists a Steam launcher crash, game crashes on Windows 10 RX 9000 systems after Adrenalin was uninstalled with the AMD Cleanup Utility, and an Install Manager bug that failed to locate optional drivers when Recommended + Optional was selected. One entry is ambiguous: a Death Stranding 2 hang with FSR on RX 9000 sits under fixed issues, yet the same line still tells affected users to turn FSR off.
What AMD says is still broken
The known issues are mostly game-specific. RX 5000 owners who see War Thunder timeouts are told to use Adrenalin 26.9.1. Some RX 9000 cards can crash in Cyberpunk 2077 when FSR Upscaling, Radeon Anti-Lag and in-game frame generation are all on while video plays on a second screen; AMD's workaround is to drop frame generation. AMD also lists problems in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced on RX 7000, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered on RX 9000 and on Ryzen AI Max PRO 400, Gears of War: Reloaded on Ryzen AI 9 400 and Phantom Blade Zero on RX 9000.
Two open issues matter beyond games. The release notes say AI Bundle components may fail to install in some regions with limited access to Hugging Face and GitHub. And AMD Smart Access Memory may become disabled after driver installation on Windows 10 systems, the notes say, so owners there should check the setting.
Scope, and what nobody has tested yet
The driver covers the RX 9070, 9060 and 9050 series, the Radeon AI PRO R9700, R9700S and R9600D workstation cards, and RX 7000, 6000 and 5000 cards, on Windows 10 and 11 version 21H2 or later. The package carries two graphics driver builds, 26.20.15.12 and 25.10.45.20, plus a Ryzen AI NPU driver dated Oct. 3. AMD recommends laptop and all-in-one owners use their manufacturer's driver, and the package does not support handheld gaming devices.
It follows 26.10.1, which brought FSR 4.1 to RX 6000 cards on Oct. 20, as Voltgrid reported. NVIDIA released hotfix 621.12 on Oct. 27, three days earlier, to address RTX 50 video freezes and black screens.
No independent outlet has yet published stability or performance results for 26.10.2, so the fixes remain AMD's claims until users and testers confirm them. Because it is an optional release, owners without one of the listed problems lose little by waiting for the next build.
