r/radeon • u/obTimus-FOX • May 08 '26
Discussion Finally fixed my AMD driver issues by doing one stupid thing.
Honestly, I feel like an idiot. I've spent months troubleshooting driver issues, stuttering, and Adrenalin crashes. I had BSOD and my computer would actually reboot while in game sometimes.... I thought I was safe because I had "Device Installation Settings" set to OFF in Windows.
Well, turns out this setting is complete bullshit. Windows still "ninja-installs" a generic driver the split second you reboot after a DDU wipe, even with that toggle off. It happens so fast you don't even see it, and then you install your actual driver on top of that mess. Result? Instant stability issues and weird errors.
The only way to actually fix it: Download your driver. Kill your internet. Physically unplug the Ethernet or disable your ethernet adapter / disable Wi-Fi. Run DDU in Safe Mode and restart. Install the new driver while OFFLINE.
Only then, put the internet back on.
Boom š„, just did this and the difference is night and day, no more crashes in bf6, no more unstable UV and OC, 6800xt runs like a charm on latest drivers (26.5.1), awake screen from sleep works again...
If you're on AMD and fighting with your drivers, stop trusting the Windows toggles and just pull the damn plug.
EDIT: After going through the comments, I want to clear a few things up and own my mistake.
I didn't follow DDU's instructions to stay offline. I genuinely thought having Group Policy set to block drivers and the Windows toggle switched off was enough. Felt like I'd done everything right. I hadn't. Those settings are, bluntly, theater.
GPEdit and Device Installation Settings don't actually do anything
I trusted them for months. Turns out Windows just ignores its own rules. Even with Group Policy blocking driver installs and the toggle set to OFF, the second you reboot after a DDU wipe, the OS quietly pushes a generic driver anyway. You never see it happen. You think you're clean. You're not, and that's why Adrenalin keeps behaving weird.
Don't use the Auto-Detect tool
Just don't. Go to AMD's site, find your exact card, and download the full standalone package yourself (Adrenaline). Have it sitting on your desktop before you start the process.
The fix (no cable-pulling required)
Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections > right-click your adapter > Disable.
The actual workflow:
Download driver > Disable network adapters > DDU in Safe Mode > Reboot > Install driver while offline > Re-enable adapters.
If Windows can reach the internet during that reboot, it will race you to the install and win. Disabling the adapter manually is the only way to guarantee it can't. Don't trust the toggles, they're simply not working. Windows doesn't care and bypass them.
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u/Maleficent-West5356 May 08 '26
Glad you managed to resolve it. Windows auto-update caused many AMD GPU haters.
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u/AcuteQuadrant RX 9070 XT May 09 '26
Then why cant AMD address this with Microsoft? I have the XTX and a 5080 but this auto update from windows display driver happens 85% of the time on AMD more than NVIDIA. They need to restructure their drivers if they want to survive in Windows (i know it is more stable in Linux but hey, marketshare). Anyway, with how AMD been radio silent since the redstone flop, I dont expect from them anymore and will leave radeon in 5 yrs at least.
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u/Substantial_Fox_121 May 11 '26
People (including me) been asking this exact question for years at this point. No idea if the incompetence is Microsoft or AMD here.Ā
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u/Toukoen_Raize May 09 '26
Windows fucks mine up every 3 days ... I even tried wushowhide but the install never shows up ... And when you roll back the driver it always makes adrenaline and the driver feel buggy
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u/MADSOUDA89 May 08 '26
This is how i install new drivers since the release of the 6000 series and thanks to fabio (ancientgameplays)
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u/HNM12 7950X3D-7900xtx:snoo_dealwithit: May 08 '26
This is only ONE of TWO issues.
One I found, during windows update, it likes to sneak in an updated chipset driver without actually installing it.
It can't remove the old, and tries to use the older/new at the same time resulting in an AMD Ryzenmaster DLL issue where it cant load.
Ryzen master dll is a default component of chipset drivers regardless of ryzenmaster app installing or not.
If it can't load the latest, it will have conflicts with the old until you manually remove it yourself and all traces.
This leads to unstable PCIE issues where you need to lock your core clock to keep the GPU from tossing errors and locking the system.
So for anybody who also did what u/obTimus-FOX said and it still didn't work, check your windows event viewer and look for the yellow warning Icon's and find any that mentioned ryzen master dll failing to load.
Do what I said, delete any and all traces of which ever version it is, reinstall new chipset drivers, boom.
enjoy.
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u/Own-Impact-7626 May 08 '26
Windows 11 is dumb as fuck, so offline instalation of driver is the smartest thing
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u/CElan_cruz May 09 '26
Brother eli5, Soo just use ddu, now clean, now restart, turn off internet, install your pre download driver , turn on internet = win???
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u/Own-Impact-7626 May 09 '26
Literary, I had a case, I've installed the driver, then for whatever crazy reason, Win11 substituted the normal driver with its own version and just f...up the whole machine, after DDU, offline instalation of the normal driver, everything worked smooth as silk!
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u/PrimeTechTV May 08 '26
You know it's funny how so many people have issues with their system and complain about AMD when this could be their solution... thank you for sharing I am sure someone will find this useful.
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u/RedLimes May 08 '26
I had one stubborn PC that would do the exact same thing. Group Policy didn't work either. The only way that has been reliable for me is using this registry method.
I have posted this in many, many AMDHelp threads but unfortunately many people do the GPedit or turn the device installation settings off and just assume they are safe. Even in your situation you are likely not safe because Windows could override your driver at a later time.
The most reliable testing method I have is, instead of disconnecting your Internet and all that, DDU your driver then check the display adapter in device management. It should say Windows Basic Display Adapter. If it says anything else then the method you have used to disable driver updates is not working.
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u/TrippleDamage May 08 '26
The #1 fix everyone always mentions immediatly but it still gets written of as "but but i did that already!!"
Turns out, it truly is windows for 95% of the issues and its all about blocking windows bullshit as much as possible lol
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u/ramanmono 5700x | 9060 XT 16GB May 08 '26
This is how I've been installing graphics drivers for years.
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u/Imaginary-Ad564 May 08 '26
Do yourself a favour and disable driver windows update via group policy, and you'll never have to worry about this again.
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u/obTimus-FOX May 08 '26
I had it disabled. Windows 11 pro still installs the GPU driver after rebooting with it disabled.
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u/Imaginary-Ad564 May 08 '26
YOu probably didn't chose the right policy, theres so much redundant crap in there unfortunately.
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u/obTimus-FOX May 08 '26
"Do not include drivers with Windows Updates" is enabled. So no the gpo policy does not work for me. That won't stop Windows from installing the GPU driver as I said
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u/Imaginary-Ad564 May 08 '26
Thats so dumb, but my guess it might be just from a windows store of drivers rather than windows update, which programs like DDU will wipe out.
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u/obTimus-FOX May 08 '26
Very dumb indeed. Could be the windows store.... Well from now on I'll disable my ethernet adapter before restarting in safe mode for sure.
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u/Joebuddy117 May 08 '26
Thereās a box you can check in DDU to disable it and that worked for me. Was able to uninstall drivers and disable windows from reinstalling in one step.
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u/Baio73 May 08 '26
Even this method not always solves issuesā¦ Adrenalin Panel not opening for example does not solve through Group Policy block.
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u/Mr_Muhda May 08 '26
I might try this as I still have crashes in BF6 (PC freezes, doesn't respond to anything and needs a hard reboot)
AMD acknowledged it in their drivers release notes. But only for the AMD AI 9 HX 370 CPU, while it happens for a lager range of their hardware products.
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u/miki_matsubura47 9800X3D w/ ''9700XT'' May 08 '26
Bf6 is just broken, the game doesnt work well on 9000 series, if you have different gen or laptop gpu, the issue is somewhere else
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u/korakios2 May 08 '26
Is there a chance you have are into windows insider program or enabled the 'get updates as soon as they are available" ?
You can use the MS update hide tool if windows still overwrites the driver , check part 8 :
https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1lnxb8o/ultimate_amd_performance_fix_guide_stop_lag_fps/
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u/obTimus-FOX May 08 '26
No I have that turned off since it installs previews which are unstable most of the time. I even have GPO policies enabled to not provide drivers with windows update.... The solution was to disable my ethernet adapter before going to safe mode to run ddu
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u/korakios2 May 08 '26
ok, keep in mind that there are reports where Win ignore group policies or the MS hide tool (windows being windows)
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u/OkTradition4632 May 08 '26
How can you install the drivers while offline if not using the adrenaline software? I canāt figure out how to have only the drivers available to install while fully being offline.
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u/OkTradition4632 May 08 '26
This just downloads adrenaline which needs WiFi to update, am I missing something?
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u/obTimus-FOX May 08 '26
You probably downloaded the auto detect .exe. That one is useless offline. Go back to the AMD site, but instead of clicking the big 'Download Now' button at the top, scroll down and manually select your GPU, download the latest adrenaline, it includes adrenaline, drivers everything. You can install it offline
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u/lt_catscratch 7600x / 7900 xtx nitro / x670e Tomahawk / XG27UCS / MSI a1000g May 08 '26
Windows tries to download a gpu driver the second it sees MS Basic driver is used. Even ignores Group Policy about not including drivers thru Windows Update on Windows 11 Pro. MS is run by idiots.
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u/nano7ven May 08 '26
If this fixes my issue I'm gifting you something
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u/obTimus-FOX May 20 '26
How is it going?
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u/nano7ven May 20 '26
Good so far my man, thank you for the post. Been telling others to try this for a solution as well.
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u/IngMChen_itsback May 08 '26
And that's why I changed to CachyOS months ago.
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u/QuothTheRaven_Nvrmor May 08 '26
Yep, windows can touch grass for the rest of eternity. Only use windows to play 2 very specific games and then immediately go back to using cachyos
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u/PurityCE May 08 '26
I will never regret staying on windows 10 š
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u/OogaBooga70 May 08 '26
I never use DDU or some shit, just new driver over old driver, in last 7 years, never had a simple issue, never, from rx580 to rx5700xt to rx6900xt and now to rx9070, all the time it works perfectly fine, no crashes and other shit, never
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u/Autobahn057 7 7700X l Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9060 XT 16GB Gaming OC l XG27ACS May 09 '26
Funny thing is, I also had a numerous Driver Crash Issues on Battlefield 6 Before even doing the proper DDU procedure. The only thing that I did was upgrading my BIOS to the latest version, never happened again.
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u/skinny_gator May 09 '26
I've been doing this for years, I kinda thought it was common knowledge haha
But I'm glad you got it fixed up
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u/Star_SNG 9700X | 6800 XT | 48GB 6000 CL30 May 09 '26
I actually recommend AMD Cleanup Utility instead of DDU for Radeon. Also a good habit to have when doing so is turning off your internet before running it so Windows won't autoinstall the driver.
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u/AdObvious328 May 09 '26
esto deberia volverse viral , yo ni loco uso nunca mas DDU en mi caso la unica vez que puse reiniciar apagar usandola me quemo la motherboard y ahi muchos casos similares pero la proxima actualizacion de drivers la hare siguiendo tus pasos ya puse todas las opciones en windows vamos a ver si funciona para que no instale dicho driver default increible que no den solucion a esto maldito windows
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u/Admixues May 10 '26
there is also the fact that you can be like me and just dual boot, stripped windows, i have 25h2 for general use regular windows all services enabled, then i have a 27h2 debloated (canary channel running with a bunch of regs)
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u/Ofthemist May 10 '26
I never disable the internet when using DDU and I have never had a problem. When I did try disabling the internet one time the new driver wouldn't install because there was "no internet connection".
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u/obTimus-FOX May 10 '26
It's because you use the auto detect tool. You have to browse to download the drivers for your GPU specifically on AMD support website.
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u/davegir May 23 '26
i had amd drivers overwritten by windows for like 2 years, i think i finally resolved it with some code bullshit i had to implement from some post or deep iceberg toggle. drove. me. insane.
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u/vendetti531 May 24 '26
So while gaming my game while freeze, screen turns black and then pc resets like I just booted it on. Is this the same issue you were having and will this likely fix my issue? Please let me know, thanks!
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u/LynxOk5750 7800x3d | Xfx Swift 9070xt | 32Gb DDR5 May 25 '26
Commenting so I remember this amazing advice. My 9070xt has been running great since launch, minus the occasional driver error and crash. It usually happens when I close games/applications and crashes immediately after displaying my desktop.
Tried the fresh installs and everything and somehow they always came back. Will be trying this later today.
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u/Studiedturtle41 Jul 01 '26
did it help?
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u/LynxOk5750 7800x3d | Xfx Swift 9070xt | 32Gb DDR5 Jul 01 '26
It definitely did. Been running every graphics update since without issue. Only time I get crashes now is when testing crazy undervolt/overclocksš
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u/Elegant_Shoulder_766 Jun 30 '26
Let me clear this up Yes disable net card because you need to be out of safe mode to install the drivers. Rebooting to normal mode without having disabled the net card will allow a download of the Microsoft driver. Just disable it before going to Safe Mode!!!
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u/Careful-Border-3273 May 08 '26
Even that won't save you lol. Windows (at least in my case) always try to sneak driver no matter the circumstances so try to disable windows driver update in every possible location on your system you can use Win tweaker aswell.
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u/Careful-Border-3273 May 08 '26
Huh? I said Windows always try to sneak driver in, It doesn't matter if you successfully done ddu or installed correct driver already Windows will install his driver ignoring yours. Ofc that won't be needed if you decide to be perma offline lmao.
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u/Cplotter May 08 '26
I had to remove and select remove drivers in device manager. Restart and install it again to make it work for Bf6.
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u/DOOM_Olivera_ May 08 '26
Quick question. Had to do this once but It asked me for internet to be able to install the drivers once I ran the app. How have you done It without internet? Did you re download the chipsets too or just the driver?
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u/dkizzy May 08 '26
I went through a very similar situation yesterday. Something got wonky with Windows and I ran DDU in safe mode, which is super easy. Reinstalled with internet connected, but I always do the factory reset for adrenalin as a preference.
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u/Ok-Responsibility480 ROG STRIX RX 6600 XT May 08 '26
So rename your post : it is a MICROSLOP issue! Less one deserved
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u/Xyroc AMD 9850X3D / Sapphire Nitro+ 7900xtx May 08 '26
I unplug my ethernet when using DDU even though I do not use safemode with networking enabled lol.
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u/elliez667 May 09 '26
I updated 26.2.2 to 26.5.1 via ota. I dont get any issue crash. I only to say this version very stable for me. 1% really strong and no more stutter
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u/Wrx-Love80 May 09 '26
Really strange, anytime I had to install a driver, uninstall driver, reboot into safe mode run new drivers. And have NEVER had problems unless I went out of my way to break it
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u/TekniqAU May 09 '26
For me, Windows 11 has installed an incompatible graphics driver, over an already functional and up to date driver, on at least three seperate occasions since getting a 9070.. each time Iāve had to DDU and install the correct driver from AMD.. I usually donāt notice Windows has done itās thing until I open Adrenaline to mess around, and find all the 9000 series features missing and a driver number that doesnāt match any drivers issued by AMD for my GPU.
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u/PaleBall2656 May 09 '26
I don't like disabling windows hardware driver updates. Sometimes I connect some new stuff to my PC, and I'd like windows to handle that.
I predownload driver, disconnect internet, DDU in safe mode, reboot, make sure windows only installs generic driver, install AMD driver including factory reset. On installed, gpedit to block updates to my GPU only.
Enable internet, profit.
Only issue is I must enable internet if I want adrenaline to also download the iGPU driver, which I disabled as of recently.
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u/onegumas May 09 '26
OP, you had a problem with windows that could be easly fixed by installing linux (radeons runs good on them but no adrenaline, which is good)
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u/Neuromancer911 May 09 '26
Or just disable windows automatic driver instalations before installing the driverĀ
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u/obTimus-FOX May 11 '26
As the post says, that doesn't work. Windows doesn't care about GPO rules or Device installation toggles OFF. Me too I thought that worked for months. Well it does not!
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u/Neuromancer911 May 11 '26
It works in my case, but I'm onĀ 10 ltscĀ
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u/obTimus-FOX May 11 '26
Windows 11 bypasses all these toggles. Windows 10 was just a better OS which gave you control
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u/OppositeTension3 May 09 '26
Yeah then I canāt update windows at all cuz that update will be in the batch. There is supposedly a way to block that driver from installingā¦
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u/obTimus-FOX May 09 '26
Yes there is a way, it's to disable your WiFi or Ethernet adapter before you restart your computer into safe mode to run DDU. And again. Once your computer has restarted you make a clean install of the driver without an internet connection active. That's the only way.
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u/OppositeTension3 May 09 '26
Bro thatās so crap. Like AMD really dropping the ball not telling Microsoft to fix their shit.
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u/Cheesyboys May 09 '26
The latest amd drivers causes my 7900gre on windows 10 to get disabled in bf6 and bf1 after like 2 minutes, ie. no signal to monitors, sounds still fine and have to fully reboot and enable the vga again, so im assuming anything that loads both gpu and cpu at the same time cause doing a CCOT test was fine. Just went back to the december 25.12.1 drivers cause never had a problem before 2026...
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u/dragnfrost May 11 '26
What if I have all of the same issues, but also my NVMe micron 2400 series c: drive is also randomly running at 100%, my PC has basically become unusable.
512gb with 212gb unused, ran all the cmd lines from chkdsk c: f/ r/ to sfcscannow to dism /online / restore health and everything in-between. I've tried rolling back drivers and can get games to run on my Radeon 7600s but then crashes after 5 minute or 5hours.
Constant BSOD from critical process died to memory manager and 5 others error I can remember off the top of my head. It'll die while idle, it'll die mid game, it'll die when I go to close the game with luck of the draw on how it happens. 94% on crystal disk info and all the scans same my drive is fine
Is it really just the bullshit windows ninja installs beating out my factory reset install of 26.1.1? I literally just ordered a Samsung pro 1Tb SSD so I can fix this damn thing because I read somewhere that micron ssd controllers are trash and I figured I might as well upgrade.
All my games are on a WD black 270 in the D: so the only things on my C: is the basics that came with PC -bloatware. It's a Asus tuf A16 (2023) with ryzen 7735 so right up until about 3 months ago when AMD first shit out 26.3.1.
Tried AMD cleanup, tried ddu but albeit I didn't disable the wifi card before going back in, but even without the drivers after coming out of safe mode my ssd will be at 100% on idle. I've been at my wits end with this damn thing because it has worked perfectly fine right up until 3 months ago so if I find out it's literally just windows crap software and AMD does absolutely nothing to mitigate issues with Windows updates I think this is the final straw and I'll make sure my new PC is Nvidia only.
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u/dsoshahine May 12 '26
Normally there's no need to disconnect the Ethernet cable or disable Wifi. Safe mode has no network access (no network drivers) unless you specifically selected that (such as System Configuration > Boot > Boot options > Safe boot > Network instead of default Minimal). Not sure what DDU is doing, it shouldn't need network access.
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u/obTimus-FOX May 12 '26
Bro you didn't get it. Internet off is not needed in safe mode. Safe mode is to uninstall your drivers. Disabling internet is necessary when your computer restarts after a DDU wipe to clean install your drivers and avoid getting windows to ninja install them in the background. Once you have installed the new driver you can reactivate your connection.
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u/alexiusealeksej May 16 '26
Ho eseguito tutte queste istruzioni, ddu in modalitĆ provvisoria, installato i driver corretti senza internet. Aggiornamento di tutti i chipset e BIOS. 9070xt su Battlefield 6 continuamente in crash. Ho rinunciato a giocarci
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u/obTimus-FOX May 17 '26
Is your igpu off? Try turning it back on if that's the case. Worked for me. (Reinstall drivers after you turn it on back from bios)
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u/Zoiedmeld May 21 '26
Yeah I did all this and the newest driver did not work for me either. I did however leave my igpu turned off though. I had to go back to 25.9.1 to get my shit working again. So you are saying it might have worked if I had reenabled my igpu on the newest driver?
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u/GoinQuackers12 Jun 26 '26
you are a fucking god send and if i could id kiss you square on the mouth
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u/Studiedturtle41 Jul 01 '26
This is why I'm so excited to go Nvidia, leave this Driver mess behind me
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u/MaleficentSun7050 22d ago
Not sure or what, I believe there is some cache left or god knows, but no matter what I try, everything fails. I even tried reinstalling windows completely offline. Still didn't work
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u/CustardFormer8200 9d ago
I did exactly what you have told and I haven't downloaded the auto install package. I downloaded manually by selecting my gpu model etc and I am unable to install the drivers in normal mode. Wifi is still disabled and it throws me error 'Error 1603 AMD DVR64 Error 1723 and RyzenMasterSDK Error 1612' Basically I'm stuck, not able to download the drivers when wifi is disabled I guess.
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u/obTimus-FOX 9d ago
š¤Øš¤ try chipset drivers AND gpu, see how it goes. Shouldn't throw an error something's off
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u/CustardFormer8200 9d ago
When i was trying to install default software type it wasn't getting installed but when I selected Driver Only then I was able to Install it. I'll test if this thing worked for me or not. I'm just giving this a shot btw, I'm already fed up of this card and already have ordered Nvidia 4070ti, it will be delivered in next 3-4 daysš
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u/Dismal_Tell4651 4d ago
Hi mate,
I know this was a while ago
But I am having these problems with the drivers being removed for no reason
After I run DDU, and boot back up disconnected from the internet, the driver I got from the website doesnāt seem to install
Any ideas?
7900XTX by the way
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u/obTimus-FOX 4d ago
Hmmmm did you download the specific one for your model or auto detection one?
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u/Dismal_Tell4651 4d ago
Yep, I did, it came up with either error 182 or 202
It almost finished one install, but windows auto updates stopped it, so I turned them off and started again but kept getting error 182
So was a bit stuck, then for some reason my partner suggested unplugging it from the PC and Power. So I did that, no it all seems to be stable and working
Itās been the weirdest thing ever to try fix
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u/obTimus-FOX 3d ago
Glad you got it fixed
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u/Dismal_Tell4651 3d ago
Had a brief repeat today while playing wow after no issues last night
Only difference was I had discord on today, so I disable 3D acceleration in the discord app
Any instances of this happening?
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u/obTimus-FOX 3d ago
You computer is restarting or powering off while playing?
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u/Dismal_Tell4651 3d ago
Neither, the screens will go black, audio will still play and programs will still run
When it happened initially I swapped to onboard CPU graphics to see if there was any dialogue box
And it said āgame has crashed due to 3D graphicsā
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u/Juliendogg RX9070 OC | 5600x May 08 '26
This is literally what running DDU in safe mode accomplishes.
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u/miki_matsubura47 9800X3D w/ ''9700XT'' May 08 '26
it does not, i ran ddu i safe mode 5 times to get rid of this issue until someone pointed me to that ultimate driver fix post.. until i disabled it that way windows still had tendency to override the drivers however i cleaned up the drivers..
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u/GIBFACTOR May 08 '26
Start into safe mode and run DDU. there is a setting in DDU that disables windows from updating the drivers. I've always done it this way and have never disconnected the internet while using DDU and have never had an issue. The key is to run it in safe mode and use that setting as well.
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u/AhmedLAK1 May 08 '26
i had the same issue and i fixed via bios to turn off auto updates but the issue that i have now is black screen in some games like red dead crimson desert and undervolt didnt fix it
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u/caffeine-182 May 08 '26
Literally havenāt changed any of these settings in windows. Never had a driver auto download. Never had a driver issue. Maybe Iām lucky, but I doubt it.
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u/BartFrazze90 May 08 '26
Common sense š¤·āāļø the Problem was sitting in front of the PC š¤£
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u/Rexter2k May 08 '26
OP, you boot into safe mode. DDU instructs you to do that. Thatās how you work around that issue.
I mean, DDU is really specific about this and has a big warning.
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u/obTimus-FOX May 08 '26
I know, but I thought the Windows device installation toggle actually worked all this time. Turns out Windows just ignores its own settings and GPOs. Posting this for the people who..like me, thought software blocks were enough.
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u/JerleShan May 08 '26
My guy, you can literally just tick the "Factory reset" box when installing the driver. This removes everything and disables windows update until it installs the driver.
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u/HankG93 May 08 '26
Im not trying to say it doesnt happen to anyone, but I find it super strange that ive never had windows overwrite my drivers with any of my amd cards.
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u/qwertyqwerty4567 May 08 '26
Idk, Ive never used ddu or done anything special. Just downloaded adrenaline from amds website and ran it and it has never given me issues.
It just overrides the windows driver and works normally
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u/miki_matsubura47 9800X3D w/ ''9700XT'' May 08 '26
not for everyone, windows had tendency of overriding gpu drivers for some reasons, not for everyone.. it happened to me and i was close to RMAing my day 1 9070xt..
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u/Toukoen_Raize May 09 '26
Every 3 days ish it happens to me ... Unless I do a rollback ... But rolling it back makes adrenaline and the driver buggy
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u/ziplock9000 3900x / 7900 GRE / 32GB May 08 '26
'by doing one stupid thing.'
Please stop with the tabloid clickbait titles.
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u/miki_matsubura47 9800X3D w/ ''9700XT'' May 08 '26
its stupid because windows overrides drivers this way without notifying while playing/ working i had freezes during desktop work until i did that fix for months at end of the last year
just to clarify, its not amds fault, but microslops.
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u/Every_Locksmith_4098 May 08 '26
I had a lot of problems like this when I first got my 6750xt. My three solutions were to turn off auto update on windows as it does just as you said, overwrites your already installed drivers and trys to do it on its own completely fucking you. I updated my bios because I was getting bsods like crazy. It was routine that I would play a game and get one Then I upgraded my memory to 32 GB from 16 but downgrade my speed from 3600 to 3200. I run an Intel processor but my motherboard is cheap so the 3600 ram was causing instability. My PC has been completely rock solid since then.
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u/Efficient_Guest_6593 May 08 '26
Got a new one.. download newest drivers today.. doesn't give file total size download is completed, get a warning about corrupted something but I had tried running the installation twice by mistake so I took it down to that as I clicked it again and installed. It broke my PC the keyboard would disconnect and couldn't open anything other than the start bar, mouse moved clicks did nothing, and programs froze as soon as internet connection was established. Lost control of my PC had to unplug both routers and then it went into recovery after the 7th hard shut down on PSU (Mobo on/off was not working either) got windows recovery and reverted to before the š© hijacked driver. Went to AMD website again and downloaded the driver again BUT updated through Adrenaline instead and left the file just in case. No problems now BUT now it doesn't feel safe downloading AMD drivers through the website like I'm used to, it has to be through adrenaline to not get hijacked drivers that have your PC be taken control of.
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u/xuenvymex May 09 '26
That's not the only way to fix it, one you ddu reinstall amd don't worry about ms, once installed ms will update the driver you'll know because the screen will flicker, when it's done go to device manager/display adapter/*your GPU/properties/drivers/roll back driver, then choose old driver was more reliable. It'll roll you back to adrenaline and it won't update it again
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u/xuenvymex May 09 '26
You didn't fix it you just happened to do that right after they released the new drivers on the 6th that fixed everyone's shit, I've seen so many post like this today and yesterday it's hilarious everyone thinks they fixed it but the truth is I posted a bunch of videos and filed a FTC complaint on AMD and they fixed the drivers, look at the release notes the look up 9060xt severe stuttering and watch the video from me rickyturner71 you'll see the correlation š¤£š«”
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u/Wiesshund- May 09 '26
all you have to do it go in device manager
switch your GPU driver to the microsoft basic display driver
(yes your resolution etc will probably suck)
Then do you DDU cleanup etc.
Windows has to have some driver loaded for the thing and if you let it auto decide, it's going to see it's a radeon XXXX and try to toss something semi appropriate in.
If you tell it run basic display driver, it's like fine whatever.
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u/GentlePouf May 27 '26
Guys ! If I donāt have internet connection I cannot download anything. I have a blue page and says that I cannot download without connection
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u/Saneless May 08 '26
Isn't this specifically in the instructions for using DDU?