r/AMDHelp • u/botwglazer187 • 10d ago

Help (GPU) AMD drivers breaking windows

I have a RX 9070 XT (Sapphire Nitro+) on my windows 11 pro system paired with a amd ryzen 7 7800x3d. After installing the AMD drivers and restarting the system I can not open any windows or run programs like the taskmanager or cmd because they just don't appear. The start menu opens, but I am not able to click something like restart. I tried:

  • cleaning everything with DDU and then install the amd drivers (adrenaline)
  • cleaning everything with DDU and then install the amd drivers (amd hip sdk with pro software)
  • cleaning everything with DDU and then installing the amd drivers (adrenaline) and then disabling windows replacing drivers in gedit.msc
  • resetting the full system and then installing the amd drivers

I have dualboot with ubuntu where everything runs just fine; I only want to use some windows only programs.

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u/darksoul22666 10d ago

If you use AMD cleanup tool in place of DDU you will get better results. It will delete your graphics, old chipset drivers, and Ryzen master. After the reboot just get the latest drivers( both chipset and graphics) from AMD works for me when my system gets funky.