Windows 11 is keep installing the wrong AMD driver

Anonymous
2022-04-12T15:01:35+00:00

I installed the proper version on the amd website with auto detect and windows 11 is keep installing the old driver which is causing graphics problems. How to stop this ?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-30T19:58:58+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-20T16:56:41+00:00

    Amen @DIGITAL.ONE TBH I thinks this BS has been around since windows 8 I would like to know why it's still here in 2023 11 years later and everyone is doing all the supposed fix's and it still dont fix the prblem. **** is really going on? Windows is doing **** that we don't even know about. We need to get ahead of this. Windows CAN NOT Take control of MY PC That I paid for with my own money. Alot of people don't know it yet but Microsoft is trying to make windows Subcription based like office365 and oter MIcrosoft products. Before we know it we will be asking big tech if we can go to the grocery store and can I got to the club or out to eat or any thing. the world will all be puppets in a Tech world. I will be gone by then thank god. Be some cyberpunk **** LOL.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-27T15:38:04+00:00

    There's a big difference between using an assortment of different branded components to build a home assembled PC (something I've done myself too) and having a PC/Laptop which is entirely built by one OEM using all their parts that they provide.

    They expect you to use the drivers that they provide. In my case it's a Dell branded laptop and interestingly when I install the Dell OEM Version Radeon drivers, Windows Update doesn't attempt to overwrite those with its own older drivers, only the AMD website provided drivers get overwritten. If I put the OEM provided drivers back, Windows Update doesn't try to overwrite those ones so I don't see how this can be entirely a Microsoft generated problem - I think they're doing what the OEMs (and to a big degree their paymasters) demand of them. Although Windows Update is a Microsoft creation, the big OEMs have a say & it's not as black and white as being entirely Microsoft's choosing what drivers to overwrite.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-17T13:46:59+00:00

    I think the microsoft update hider worked for me too. Lets hope with the next update I will not have to do anything and I will be free from this continuous pain.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-12-17T12:44:57+00:00

    Option 1 does nothing for me. I have download drivers on OFF . Yet after 12 tries windows still reinstalls the old versions.

    Option 2. DO NOT USE option 2 from Major Geeks. It has a virus that will cause problems to your system and on top of that it does not work at all. I had to do a whole other journey just to remove the bugged pop ups after the virus was removed.

    Option 3. I do not have windows pro I have basic windows so I cannot use it. Microsoft should stop auto updating AMD drivers all together OR they should make the AMD driver application part of windows for all computers that use AMD hardware. Similar to how they already have with the drivers of NVIDIA graphics cards . It is already December and new year will be upon us. They should fix this Issue immidiately.

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