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Windows 11 update installs a driver that disables your graphics card

Windows has done it again. It is an operating system that loves updates, it is rare that you do not turn off the computer and have to leave it for a while so that all the patches and new security options are finished installing. And of course, there are so many who put in that sometimes they have to mess it up.

This time they have forced an update that causes AMD graphics cards to stop working. If it has happened to you and you want to know how to fix it, keep reading.

Software bug on AMD

With Windows Update we no longer have to worry about keeping our drivers and programs updated, Windows does it for us. However, sometimes they make a mistake, as in this case, and therefore a supposed improvement leaves us unable to use the computer.

This time they forced a driver update of AMD graphics cards, the problem is that they installed a very old version and therefore it has stopped working with most programs.

amd driver error

This would be the error that appears to users when completing a PC update and restart.

How to solve it

The only solution and the easiest is to download the drivers for our card from the AMD website. Search for the latest version and force its installation by hand, thus overwriting Windows or previously deleting these and then installing the new ones. Getting the computer to work like before. A process that can be fast but that we should not be doing it ourselves due to their failure.

If you do not want this to happen to you again and that it is not Windows that does it automatically but you, you can do the following.

  1. Open the next route. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>DriverSearching
  2. Look for SearchOrderConfig»
  3. Change its value from ‘1’ to ‘0’

And that’s it, from that moment the drivers of your computer will depend on you, although yes, you will have to update them from time to time, otherwise the same thing will happen to you.

All of this is bad publicity for AMD brand cards since they for their part and as far as we have information have not been to blame for anything, what’s more, their latest drivers work perfectly on their website. The error has been on the part of Windows that we do not know how it will solve, especially for users who are not very good computer scientists and who will not know why their PC has stopped working out of nowhere.

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