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This isn't super relevant, but I just installed Windows on one of my drives so I could play Tarkov (lol), and oh my god the AMD Adrenalin software. I'm sure there's some okay features with it, but for some reason it was not saving my fan tuning. So like, during intensive graphics, my PC was just overheating like crazy, and would just randomly shut off multiple times and not turn on for a few minutes. Every time I rebooted, I would have to launch Adrenalin and load my fan tuning configuration. It's absolutely atrocious that this happens on a default Windows install.... like if it happened on Linux I'd accept that I maybe configured something wrong. But installing Windows and AMD drivers should not put my computer at risk of burning my GPU. It's ridiculous.
Anyway if anyone else has this issue, you can fix it by turning off fast boot in Windows power settings. Stupid af
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.