RX480 driver install corruption

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Galmok

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Why is it that the RX480 driver installation always causes severe GPU corruptions, forcing me to hardware reset and hope the driver installed properly?

I just upgraded to the latest driver (waited as I expected this trouble) and the upgrade ended with a corrupt display, flashing black every few seconds. It seems like the driver was restarted constantly.

The event viewer shows a lot of these messages:

Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

I have tried letting it run for 6 minutes with this, before hardware reset. This message occurred on average once every 5 seconds, matching the monitor showing garbled display and black, repeating in the same interval.

So, how do I make the driver install properly?

There isn't much to go on, but if I wait long enough before hardware resetting, the driver seems to install and work as intended. But I honestly don't like having to hardware reset just to install a GPU driver. :-(

I have tried both upgrade and clean install, with having hardware reset to early with the clean install, causing CCC to not being installed (and probably other stuff). Going to install again, and then wait some minutes, and the hardware reset.

Horrible drivers. :-(

Never had such a problem before.
 
Seems my system completely locks up with this driver installation as I can't even connect with remote desktop. :-(

And now it wont install the control panel (CCC) for the driver.

Sigh. Should have stuck with the old drivers. Now I have nothing. :-(
 
I resorted to a driver cleaner utility that AMD offered on their homepage and that sorted out my issues. After the driver cleaner, I was stuck with the default VGA driver. Without the driver cleaner, I would constantly revert to a previous AMD driver, even though I asked windows to remove the driver.

Fortunately, the driver cleaner resolved the problem and I have a working system again. Just annoying this was necessary and that tool should probably be offered in the driver for just such cases. After all, it is a very small tool and of great value in cases like this.
 
It happens sometimes and it's regardless whether you have AMD or nvidia or whatnot. Hence the driver cleanup utilities. It's an issue with you upgrade your drivers again and again and again; we've had threads like this since the beginning of Rage3D :)
 
Kombatant said:
It happens sometimes and it's regardless whether you have AMD or nvidia or whatnot. Hence the driver cleanup utilities. It's an issue with you upgrade your drivers again and again and again; we've had threads like this since the beginning of Rage3D :)
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I can't remember being hit by it before, even when switching from nvidia to ati, but I guess this is now the "standard". :-/

I can live with it, just wish the tool was in the drivers.
 
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