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Going from nvidia to amd
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I know of someone who wanted to dualboot for certain games and their windows did exactly that too. At one point their AMD driver managed to uninstall itself somehow. On Linux they never had any problem whatsoever.
Yup, that's windows. AMD tends to release most of their drivers without WHQL certification (think, final drivers, just without Microsoft signing off on them, so they get out faster and (presumably) slightly cheaper).
Windows sees this and thinks "Hey! This driver doesn't have our stamp of approval! Let's help this dumb user out and 'update' it to the latest one that does!"
Unfortunately, this not only puts you on an old version, but now the adrenalin software sees that the driver doesnt match its install and doesn't let you use those features.
God I hate windows >.>
Windows being „helpful“ is the worst. I can’t remember an instance were it actually was helpful. Just some were it managed to break things.