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AMD Catalyst Un-install Utility (no more driver fusion!)

PorkPieCat said:
AMD's released an official uninstaller+sweeper for their drivers.

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/catalyst-uninstall-utility.aspx

It's still advised to clean install drivers, and evidently AMD think so too!
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Great stuff, good find Pork chops. I can definitely update the guide with this. I found atimanuninstaller deleting important chipset drivers on windows 8 which cannot be recovered without a fresh windows install. I'm about to install 13.1 so will try this now.

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Just used it, did a windows integrity check right after using it. No vilolations. As they would say in Doom 3 at the start or perhaps in a dodgy porn film from the 80's, 'bio scan looks good, you're cleared for entry'. I didn't bother to uninstall drivers or caps, just ran the cleaner. However the cleaner only removed driver/chipset/audio elements of amd drivers so in my opinion you should uninstall the driver, cap files, reboot, run the cleaner, reboot, install new drivers. Will update the afterburner guide shortly.
 
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Rezident said:
Is this a different process to the "remove all AMD software" option you normally do before installed drivers?
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Honestly im not sure but its some sort of cleaner so i guess it removes more stuff. Just uninstall normally, reboot, run the cleaner, reboot, install new drivers. :)
 
LtMatt said:
Honestly im not sure but its some sort of cleaner so i guess it removes more stuff. Just uninstall normally, reboot, run the cleaner, reboot, install new drivers. :)
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Ok I’ll have a read about it and look at it when I get home before installing the new drivers. Cheers for that.
 
Sounds promising, the last time I used atiman uninstaller I ended up with a black screen and a fudged registry.
 
LtMatt said:
Great stuff, good find Pork chops. I can definitely update the guide with this. I found atimanuninstaller deleting important chipset drivers on windows 8 which cannot be recovered without a fresh windows install. I'm about to install 13.1 so will try this now.

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Just used it, did a windows integrity check right after using it. No vilolations. As they would say in Doom 3 at the start or perhaps in a dodgy porn film from the 80's, 'bio scan looks good, you're cleared for entry'. I didn't bother to uninstall drivers or caps, just ran the cleaner. However the cleaner only removed driver/chipset/audio elements of amd drivers so in my opinion you should uninstall the driver, cap files, reboot, run the cleaner, reboot, install new drivers. Will update the afterburner guide shortly.
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:)

thanks for reporting back. i was hoping this would uninstall and clean in one go but i guess it's the same process as with any sweeper then? still, glad to have an in-house version.
 
NightSt@lk3r said:
Been reports of this totally bricking Windows 8 installs so be careful.
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I can confirm that this has done some strange things to my windows 8 install. I'm actually about to reinstall. I guess they didn't test it properly on windows 8.

I'm not able to create or modify a power plan. Its a small issue but it still shouldn't happen. There might be other issues, some users at another forum are reporting other issues. It can be fixed by using a system restore, if you have it enabled that is. It only seems to affect windows 8 from what i gather.

Thankfully it only takes about 20 minutes if that to install and update windows 8 from scratch to present day. (if you have it on a usb 3.0 stick that is)
 
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just ran this and installed 13.1 and the only thing that bothered me was there is no progress bar. Other than that seems fine so far, though uninstalling CCC then running driver sweeper wasn't that bothersome.
 
used installer win 8 64bit, 12.11 beta 11,
no issue. uninstalled cap manually.
installed 13.1 and cap.
gave hydravision a go also and as far works as it should.
 
I've never really had problems with uninstalling drivers or updating them.

There's a guide on Google how to clear the registry its a 100% sure thing to remove everything you don't want.

I tried to corrupt my registry last time when i had a 285 and 7850 and its really hard to do imo i dunno how people end up with corrupted drivers/registry problems?
 
Yep.....best stay away from it with Windows 8.

Noticed that it renamed 'Network' in explorer, to 'Computers and Devices', or at the very least changed some underpinning files in the install.
Very, very strange.

Chances are its a little too heavy in what it mucks about with, but it most certainly did remove the previous drivers.
 
This looks like the same app that removes all AMD driver software when you use the normal AMD Catalyst Install Manager to remove drivers before installing new ones. Looks like the same process, not sure if it does anything extra if you've already gone through that but it seems to work fine here with no issues.
 
mcdermotx said:
Yep.....best stay away from it with Windows 8.

Noticed that it renamed 'Network' in explorer, to 'Computers and Devices', or at the very least changed some underpinning files in the install.
Very, very strange.

Chances are its a little too heavy in what it mucks about with, but it most certainly did remove the previous drivers.
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yea windows works as it should but I notice the power settings was altered.
Not sure how they could release a tool that actually changes windows settings.
 
flopper said:
yea windows works as it should but I notice the power settings was altered.
Not sure how they could release a tool that actually changes windows settings.
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Yeah they messed up, i was annoyed as i didn't have restore running so i had no choice but to reinstall windows 8. Luckily that literally only takes about 5-10 minutes, updates 20 minutes so its not too bad but its still disappointing from AMD.

I've had nothing but hassle with all the different driver cleaners, atiman, driver cleaner, (not driver fusion) and now AMD's own tool. I am not going to use one ever again.

Saying that though, i may use AMD's one if they get it working properly on windows 8.
 
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