The AMD Driver Thread

[humbug]

This might be a stupid question..
If I have a 7800XT and swap it with a 9070XT.. Do I have to do anything before or after doing so?

Download the 9070 XT drivers and save them on the desctop.

Run the AMD Cleanup Utility https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/faqs/GPU-601.html It will ask you to reboot its self in to safe mode, once done power off the PC, turn off or unplug the PSU and wait a couple of minutes for the caps to drain, remove the 7800XT, install the 9070 XT, power the PC on and install the 9070 XT drivers you saved.

 

[AMD_Vik]

This might be a stupid question..
If I have a 7800XT and swap it with a 9070XT.. Do I have to do anything before or after doing so?

plug and play should be fine in this case

 

[toString]

While I would have done it your way Vik.. I will try humbugs approach. Probably won't make a difference but might as well I guess..

 

[AMD_Vik]

all good - enjoy your new gpu

 

[toString]

Thanks. I just have to buy it first
Finding newer VR games to be a bit laggy so has to be done really..

 

[welshrat]

plug and play should be fine in this case

Same driver branch for 3 and 4 so should work fine ?

 

[MyBrainz]

This might be a stupid question..
If I have a 7800XT and swap it with a 9070XT.. Do I have to do anything before or after doing so?

These days it'll be Windows that screws you up before any GPU drivers.. from 3060Ti to 9070 I uninstalled Nvidia drivers and deleted all their folders etc, swapped cards and installed AMD drivers.

@AMD_Vik Looks like the Second Life flickering bug is mostly fixed in the latest driver though I see somebody on Github still saying they still have it but its reduced a fair bit, oh and another person sold their 9070XT and switched to Nvidia because of this bug For me, on first install it seemed fixed but the Adrenalin software wouldnt show up even though I could see the Adrenalin taskbar icon, reinstalled them again checking Factory Reset and all was well after that At least I'm off 25.9.1 drivers now cheers.

One unexpected positive is it seems like DayZ plays smoothly in Borderless Fullscreen mode now as before it was quite stuttery so a nice surprise there

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

"Users may experience intermittent loss of mouse and keyboard functionality both in-game and on the desktop when interacting with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition."

@AMD_Vik I'm getting an issue very similar to this but I'm not actively using the driver software at the time (I mean it's running but I don't have adrenaline open), could this be related or is this a very specific bug where you have to have the adrenaline user interface open? Not quite sure how broad the term "interacting with" is in this context.

 

[AMD_Vik]

"Users may experience intermittent loss of mouse and keyboard functionality both in-game and on the desktop when interacting with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition."

@AMD_Vik I'm getting an issue very similar to this but I'm not actively using the driver software at the time (I mean it's running but I don't have adrenaline open), could this be related or is this a very specific bug where you have to have the adrenaline user interface open? Not quite sure how broad the term "interacting with" is in this context.

this issue is specific to the use of the radeon in-game overlay, though it should be fixed with 26.3.1

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

this issue is specific to the use of the radeon in-game overlay, though it should be fixed with 26.3.1

Ah, I've got the overlay disabled so it would seem it's not connected then.
An AMD driver bug would have made sense as the USB issue I get doesn't seem to occur (so far) with an Nvidia 4060Ti installed but does with an AMD 7900XT.