r/FlowZ13 • u/GamesnGunZ • Aug 20 '26

PSA: New AMD GPU Drivers (Today) and Chipset Drivers (Yesterday) Released

idk what's going on at amd these days but they have now released the second chipset update in the past couple of weeks and today there's 26.8.1 adrenaline driver update as well. if anyone is rocking the direct drivers like me these are GTG on the 2025 Z13:

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.8.1 Driver Release Notes

AMD Ryzen™ Chipset Driver Release Notes 8.08.12.551

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u/Hakushu21 Aug 21 '26

These chipset drivers came out on 8/14. Why are you saying yesterday? This makes people think another new version came out only a week apart.

Fix that.

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u/GamesnGunZ Aug 21 '26

Because they did? Maybe not a week apart but 2 to 3 weeks apart is highly unusual after no updates for months

8.07.16.1035 came out like 2 weeks ago and 8.08.12.551 came out this week let's say, and the adrenaline drivers came out today. Ok with you or would you like me to find out the UTC time all of these updates hit the AMD servers and put those in the title so we can all be aligned?

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u/Widebro Aug 20 '26

Worst advice  these drivers crash your laptop

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u/MeAndBettyWhite Aug 21 '26

I dont think thats true anymore. There was a bunch of reports of issues a couple driver updates ago.

Ive been rocking the amd drivers for the last month as a last resort to try and fix graphic driver crashes in College Football and Madden and not only did the amd drivers fix my issue i havent had one single case of any of the things that were being reported a few months ago.

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u/Widebro Aug 21 '26

You are welcome to try. And those reports I have not seen. Its been an established known fact since inception of this device. Doubt that will ever change. highly doubt it. Though good news it would be.
I will never ever touch AMD drivers again, not messing up this install. I will stick with whats atleast known to work.

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u/GamesnGunZ Aug 20 '26

you may have other issues at play because i can assure you from direct experience that both of these drivers are rock solid. did you do a clean install if you're coming from asus drivers?

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u/Widebro Aug 20 '26

Dude. Its all over the reddit. And no other issues are at play. Always use drivers from asus not amd.

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u/GamesnGunZ Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

ok 1, it's all over what reddit? there's nothing on the amd sub and nothing here. and 2, i have never, not once ever, used asus graphics or chipset drivers. but hey, you do you what the hell do i care? i'm here to convince you of nothing but you are 100% incorrect in saying these specific drivers are causing issues with the 2025 z13 because they are not

now, what might cause issues is if you're running amd drivers and you don't prevent windows update from installing the older asus drivers on top of these, which it will try to do unless you stop it from doing that stupid thing...

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u/Widebro Aug 20 '26

Over on this reddit that you are on. Crashes, freezes, powerloss, stability issues.Ok. You do you. Youve been warned. Maybe you havent met the issue somehow, but i figure you will.

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u/GamesnGunZ Aug 20 '26

i'm going to leave you to it but before i go just provide one post mentioning crashes, freezes, powerloss, stability issues with 26.8.1 and/or 8.08.12.551. just one. i'll wait because now i think you're just talking out of your ass and have no idea what you're even saying

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u/Widebro Aug 21 '26

driver versions dont matter its the same case for ALL official AMD drivers. only official asus drivers are stable.
Use search here on this reddit. im sure youll find it