AMD blog mistake suggests Fluid Motion Frames 2 will be released in its September driver release

AMD's Fluid Motion Frames, its driver-based global-frame generation technology, could be forgotten with the increasing number of games that support AMD's FSR 3. AMD hasn't forgotten it though, as the company has just announced the second generation technology will be launched with the next Adrenalin Driver.

The AMD blog page announcement was short and vague. It says: "We've made continual enhancements to the AMD Software Adrenalin edition application, introducing valuable upgrades and innovative features. In this latest version AMD Software, we are excited to announce AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2."

The title of the failed blog posts surrounding the AMD Adrenalin driver suggests that it is the next driver, which would be the 24.9.1 Sept driver.

This comically short blog entry, I should note, is sandwiched in between three other failed attempts. One says "Text goes Here", another states "Test Draft", and the third simply states "Test".

I assume that there will be a more detailed announcement when the product launches, but since AFMF 2 is already in beta, we know what to expect. It was packaged as a tech preview driver 29 July. It doesn't reinvent the AFMF wheels, but it does improve them.

AFMF has been available since January. It's a driver-level, software-based frame generation technology. It doesn't need any specialised hardware in order to run. Just your standard shaders. It's just a toggle in the Adrenalin program. It works with all DX11 or DX12 games.

This means that there are no optimisations per game, unlike FSR 3 and DLSS 3 Frame Gen, which use the AFMF algorithm, but can also make use of game data to improve frame interpolation quality and performance, such as through optical flow analysis. Frame gen is a feature that works in a lot of games, but isn't up to the standards of FSR or DLSS frame gen.

While we can't anticipate it to catch up with FSR or DLSS in terms of performance, AFMF 2, compared to the first version, should be a vast improvement. Nick's limited tests of the early preview builds revealed that it offers a slight improvement in frame rate over first-gen AFMF, and also better handling of fast motion scenes.

This is due to AI-optimised improvements such as an updated algorithms and other changes which are also said reduce latency. It was a bit of a challenge for AFMF.

If AMD's blog post is a hint at an imminent AFMF 2 release, it could be good news for those who wish to play games which do not support FSR 3 and DLSS 3. (Or DLSS 3.5, 3.7, or even just 3.X.

AFMF 2 will offer a performance boost for those who cannot use FSR 3 and DLSS 3.X. This is especially true for those with a lower-end RX 6000 or 7000 series GPU. It may be even better for AMD-powered handheld gaming computers. I'm crossing my fingers for the September driver. God of War Ragnarok is launching tomorrow on PC, so it would seem a good time for a new driver.