Last year, AMD has made a policy shift ejection drivers for your graphics card, almost as an answer to the often tardiness for competition. The result was the Radeon Software Crimson Edition, a sizeable software package that has laid the foundation for further upgrades of AMD devices. As the Radeon Software was designed with upgrades on an annual basis, we are now finally get the next, called Crimson relive Edition.
Relive in the name highlights the most important new feature that comes with a new package of drivers – the possibility of direct recording and broadcasting video content from games without a significant impact on performance, ie. Without overloading the hardware for recording. In addition, owners of AMD’s card are for the first time given the option of recording “Instant Replay”, or the last hour of gameplay; thus equated with similar capabilities stack and Shadowplay program for Nvidia users.
However, this is not the first time that such an option exists on the PC outside Shadowplay, the service is available through Plays.tv / AMD Gaming Evolved, but only for supported games. With Relive however you can record anything you like because besides shooting games there is also the option of recording your desktop, or anything that is spinning inside your Windows. Shooting options are a little limited. You can record up to 60 frames per second up to 1080p resolution. For the resolutions above that video recording in 30 fps.
In addition to relive, also useful are newspapers and Radeon Chill. It is a function that can reduce power consumption and temperature graphics card depending on user settings, or the speed of the mouse. The speed at which you move the mouse, for example dictates framerate of the game, and thus the intensity of use of the graphics card. Example, codes static scenes where no control cameras (conversations, menus) GeForce Chill might descend fps to regulate consumption and temperature card. According to AMD’s estimates, with the function cards can haul up to 31% less power and be 13% cooler.
Radeon Software relive Edition is available for download on the official website of AMD. Most of the functions that come with the software package works with cards GCN architecture, or Radeon 7xxx series and all series after 2011.
