Windows 11 is keep installing the wrong AMD driver

amd version 23.4.1 ryzen 7 4000series, win11 home, still having this issue

Then if you follow what W0nd3rwi3ss suggests (on the previous page), making sure to select the reason why you're rolling back to the AMD Radeon Website provided drivers is because the Windows Update provided ones stopped your app from working, that'll fix this bug. Give it a try and by all means report back exactly what happens.

If you 'blacklist' the Windows Update provided drivers by saying that they stopped your app from working, Windows won't attempt to install them again.

i just did it and in a first sight it looks like it worked, thank you very much to you and W0nd3rwi3ss! i hope to not have to come back

Got the same issue and i solved it as following:

1. Update Windows to the latest version with all the drivers
2. Install the Radeon drivers
3. After the restart run "Windows Update" and let it install the "wrong driver" again.
4. Go to device manager and roll-back to the AMD driver (This actual flags the Microsoft variant of the AMD driver to never install).
5. Check with Windows update if the "Wrong driver" still installs. If not, you are good and the new driver is installed.
6. If you like the full package with the Adrenalin package then run the AMD installer again and reboot.

All other solutions given here did not work for me.

I have tried literally everything I found online to try and fix this, including this. Did this multiple times, but Windows Update never updates the driver and I don't have the "roll-back driver" option available. It is grayed out.

I'm starting to lose my mind over this, because I just built a new PC with an AMD 7900 XTX and it is my first AMD GPU. Every game I launch gives me an error, that I have out of date drivers, even though I have the latest ones from Adrenalin.

To recap:

-Disabled hardware updates to "no" from system settings.

-Edited the registry.

-Uninstalled/reinstalled Adrenalin.

-Tried the solution by Wonderweiss.

-...some other stuff that I can't even remember anymore.

And yes, I re-enabled the optional updates to try and receive the Windows driver, but no dice.

To clarify the method (if I understood it correctly) I uninstalled AMD software and driver, rebooted, ran Windows update (didn't receive a driver), reinstalled AMD Adrenalin, rebooted, ran Windows update (still no driver and no roll-back option).

Time to do a reinstall of Windows I think. Changing registry settings can really throw a spanner in the works sometimes but using Windows to do a recovery installation then installing the Radeon drivers from AMDs website may get things back to normal.

On a freshly installed OS from scratch I can confirm that the above 6 steps work wonders so if your OS installation has become corrupted, reinstalling is best. Oh, I should also mention that Windows Update will only try to install it's own Radeon drivers on some setups so if you're not getting that (and never have?), that's a good thing.