AMD has announced a new version of the AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver, featuring updated Khronos Vulkan Headers, Hawk Point 1 and 2, support for various extensions, improved queue exposure, and optimizations for game performance. The fixes include corruption in Ghost Recon and Far Cry, a memory leak in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, hangs in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, mesh shader complications, and CTS failures.
AMDVLK v-2025.Q2.1
2025-4-30 update
New feature and improvement
* Update Khronos Vulkan Headers to 1.4.313 and compliant CTS version to 1.4.1.3
* Add Hawk Point 1 and 2 support
* Support extension VK_EXT_image_2d_view_of_3d, VK_EXT_shader_replicated_composites and VK_KHR_maintenance8
* Expose more Queues by default
* Tune performance of some games for Navi48
Issue fix
* Surge 2 flickers after Alt+Tab
* Ghost Recon Breakpoint corruption while resizing
* Far Cry corruption in water reflections (https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/issues/386)
* Kingdom come: Deliverance II memory leak and hang after 10mins of gameplay (https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/issues/395)
* Shadow of The Tomb Raider hang
* Mesh shaders not working with vk_khr_pipeline_executable_properties
* CTS failure in dEQP-VK.pipeline.\*.logic_op_na_formats.\*
