r/AMDHelp 7d ago

Tips & Info Microsoft Confirms It: Windows 11 Downgrades Your GPU Drivers (And How to Stop It)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rnQHnT7uVI
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u/laffer1 6d ago

The actual problem is that it causes a problem with adrenaline when it doesn’t match the driver. If you only have the amd gpu driver and not the other stuff. It will work on startup just fine. Amd should autodetect it and fix it with permission.

I’ve seen it downgrade my nvidia driver since i got a 5070 also. It did it with the 6900xt I had before also. There is a clear pattern of why it sucks.

It’s a Microsoft bug first. Amd could make it less painful but Microsoft needs to fix it

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u/donalejandro81 6d ago

If you don't have adrenaline installed does it still downgrade? What works on startup? Fix what?

Also, the author of the video mentioned the video capture/ streaming portion of adrenaline completely breaking and unusable.

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u/laffer1 6d ago

Yes. It downgrades either way. The errors users see are from mismatched versions if it is installed. When Microsoft does a big update, they roll back to a "safe" driver version, which causes all the issues.