As of September 6,AMDhas released a new update for its AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) 2 Technical Preview. This new AFMF 2 update is mainly targeted at fixing stability issues. It also provides some unspecified optimizations forWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, which otherwise wouldn’t be playable with Frame Gen on these systems since it only supports AMD FSR 2. Thelast major update for AFMF2was back in July when we sawbenchmarkstouting latency reduction of up to 28% compared to the original AFMF.
Regarding overall features and performance, don’t expect much to change between the last version of AFMF 2 and this one. Since this is essentially just a bug-fixing update, any further reduction to input lag will only be tied toSpace Marine 2improvements or the fixing of formerly-bugged scenarios.
AMD Software Adrenalin Preview Driver For AFMF 2 June 12, 2025 (AFMF2 2 Driver Version 24.20.11.01) Fixed Issues
Aside from the official list of Issues Fixed above, all this AFMF 2 update provides “new game optimizations and general stability fixes,” which are likely mostly unlisted changes. Even the touted improvements forWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2are left undefined besides AMD encouraging users to leverage AFMF 2 alongside that game’s AMD FSR 2 support, which will roughly approximate FSR 3 Frame Gen but not quite achieve all the benefits of engine-implemented Frame Generation as in FSR 3+ or DLSS 3+.
In any case, testing of AFMF 2 by the community at large does show it to be generally usable, much more so than the original AFMF solution. While in-engine is still better, AFMF 2 thus far seems to be a properly optimized driver-level solution for games without native support for Frame Generation, allowing many more players to enjoy high refresh rate gaming.
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